1925 Egyptian parliamentary election

none Kingdom of Egypt Parliamentary 1923–24 Egyptian parliamentary election 1924 1926 Egyptian parliamentary election 1926 23 March 1925 ModernEgypt, Saad Zaghloul, BAP 14785.jpg Saad Zaghloul Wafd Party 46.75% 113 YakanPasha.jpg Adly Yakan Pasha Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt) 20.45% 40 YahyaIbrahim.jpg Yahya Ibrahim Pasha Ittihad Party 29 17.03% Muhammad Hafiz Ramadan Pasha National Party (Egypt) 7 4.35% Prime Minister Subsequent Prime Minister Ahmed Zeiwar Pasha Ahmed Zeiwar Pasha Independent Independent Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 23 March 1925.Khatib 1954 17 They saw the Wafd Party lose almost half of its seats.Khatib 1954 487 Background Politics in Egypt at this time was divided into three main groups: the Wafd party, King Fuad I and his allies, and the British government. After the 1923–24 parliamentary elections the leader of the Wafd Party, Saad Zaghloul, became the prime minister. However, he was forced to resign on 24 November following the assassination of Lee Stack on 19 November, after an ultimatum by General Edmund Allenby.Deeb 1979 134–136 Ahmed Zeiwar Pasha formed a ministry after Zaghloul's resignation, proroguing parliament the next day. Parliament was officially dissolved on 24 December.Khatib 1954 171 Ahead of the new elections, King Fuad created the Ittihad Party led by Yahya Ibrahim.Terry 1982 182 Fuad also sought allies in the Liberal Constitutional Party and the National Party.Deeb 1979 136 The elections were supervised by Ismail Sidky, the new Minister of the Interior.Quraishi 1967 98–99 Sidky tried to prevent the Wafd from winning by clamping down on the press as well as gerrymandering the districts to hinder Wafdist candidates. However, this did not stop the Wafd Party from obtaining a majority of the seats. Results File: Egypt Parliament 1925.svg Wafd Party 31482 113 –66 Liberal Constitutional Party 13771 40 +20 Ittihad Party 11465 29 New National Party 2931 7 0 Independents 7693 22 +17 0 72353 75784 KhatibKhatib 1954 486–487 Aftermath The first and only act of parliament on the morning of 23 March 1925 was to vote to elect Zaghloul Speaker of the House by 123 votes to 85. Furious, King Fuad dissolved parliament in the afternoon. Parliament was in session for less than half a day.Terry 1982 183Deeb 1979 136 References Sources Terry Janice J. The Wafd: Cornerstone of Egyptian Political Power Publisher: Third World Centre for Research and Publishing 1982 9780861990009 Deeb Marius Party Politics in Egypt: the Wafd & its Rivals 1919–1939 Ithaca Press 1979 9780903729406 Quraishi Zaheer M. https://archive.org/details/liberalnationali0000qura Liberal Nationalism in Egypt; Rise and Fall of the Wafd Party Jamal Printing Press 1967 9780861990009 Khatib M.F The working of parliamentary institutions in Egypt, 1924-1952 1954 University of Edinburgh https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/34029 Egypt Egypt Category:Parliamentary elections in Egypt Parliamentary Egypt Egypt Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results