Egyptian parliamentary election, 1942

March 1942

	First party	Second party	Third party


Leader	Mustafa el-Nahhas	Ali Mahir Pasha	Hafiz Ramadan Bey
Party	Wafd	Liberal Constitutional	Watani
Seats won	240	4	2

Prime Minister before election

Hussein Sirri Pasha
Independent

Subsequent Prime Minister

Mustafa el-Nahhas
Wafd Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt in March 1942.^[1] The election was boycotted by the opposition, and the ruling Wafd Party won 240 of the 264 seats.^[1]

Results

Party	%	Seats	+/–
Wafd Party		240	+71
Liberal Constitutional Party		4	–13
Watani Party		2	–2
Saadist Institutional Party		1	+1
Independents		17	–25
Invalid/blank votes	–	–	–
Total		264	+32
Source: Sternberger et al.

References

1 2 Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p294 (German)

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