1936 Egyptian parliamentary election

none Kingdom of Egypt Parliamentary 1931 Egypt parliamentary election 1931 1938 Egyptian parliamentary election 1938 May 1936 130x130px Mustafa el-Nahhas.PNG Mostafa el-Nahas Wafd Party 190 Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha.PNG Mohamed Mahmoud Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt) 15 3x4.svg Popular Unionist 14 3x4.svg Hafiz Ramadan Bey National Party (Egypt) 4 Prime Minister Subsequent Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha Mostafa el-Nahas Ittihad Party Wafd Party thumb|315x315px|Cartoon by Akher Saa showing the Wafd crushing their opponents after the 1936 election: "I can crush you... but I don't want to get my hands dirty!"|right Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt in May 1936;1936-05-04 Nationalists victors in Egyptian election; With Returns Incomplete, Wafd Has 118 Seats, Against 27 for the Opposition. https://www.nytimes.com/1936/05/04/archives/nationalists-victors-in-egyptian-election-with-returns-incomplete.html?searchResultPosition=1 2025-08-13 The New York Times 10 elections for the Chamber of Deputies took place on 2 May and for the Senate on 7 May.Deeb Marius Party Politics in Egypt: the Wafd & its Rivals 1919–1939 Ithaca Press 1979 9780903729406 332 The elections were held following the death of King Fuad I, and his son Farouk's ascension to the throne. The result was a victory for the Wafd Party, which won 190 of the 232 seats. King Farouk's coronation was held in the newly elected parliament on 29 July 1937. Background The 1923 constitution was restored on 12 December 1935, allowing for the first free elections since 1929.El-Khatib M.F The working of parliamentary institutions in Egypt, 1924-1952 1954 University of Edinburgh http://hdl.handle.net/1842/34029 65 The elections were held under Ali Maher's caretaker government with direct elections and universal adult male suffrage.Quraishi Zaheer M. https://archive.org/details/liberalnationali0000qura Liberal Nationalism in Egypt; Rise and Fall of the Wafd Party Jamal Printing Press 1967 9780861990009 232 Results Different sources give different results for the elections; Dolf Sternberger et al. and Marius Deeb state that the Wafd won 179 of the 232 seats in the Chamber of Deputies,Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p294 de with Deeb also giving the Wafd 65 of the 79 seats in the Senate. David Moore puts the number of Wafdist seats at 166 in the Chamber and 62 in the senate,Moore David F. The Wafd Party of Egypt: 1936-1945 January 1965 Master of Arts American University of Beirut https://www.proquest.com/docview/2316005707?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses 26 while M.F. El-Khatib states that the Wafd won 190 seats in the Chamber, though notes 45 of the Wafd candidates were 'not official candidates of the party'.El-Khatib 1954 488 Chamber of Deputies File:Egypt Parliament 1936.svg Wafd Party 794966 190 Popular Unionist Party 174535 14 Liberal Constitutional Party 157454 15 National Party 20275 4 Independents 9 133855 1261330 2120477 –4 KhatibEl-Khatib 1954 488 Further reading Marsot Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Egypt’s Liberal Experiment: 1922–1936 University of California Press 1977 9780520031098 Terry Janice J. The Wafd: Cornerstone of Egyptian Political Power Third World Centre for Research and Publishing 1982 9780861990009 Thornhill Michael T. June 2010 Informal Empire, Independent Egypt and the Accession of King Farouk 10.1080/03086531003743981 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 38 2 279–302 References Egypt Egypt Category:Parliamentary elections in Egypt Parliamentary Egypt Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results