1704:"Party affiliation totals listed here are based for the most part upon immediate press reports (al-Ahram and Egyptian Gazette) and differ slightly from Quraishi's totals, which seem to include later changes, chiefly to the Wafd in landslide election years. Totals for 1942 and 1950 are incomplete because occupational data were unavailable. First and second ballot figures for 1942 give the Wafd 234 seats, versus 30 to Independent and minority party candidates; in 1950, these figures are 221 and 98, respectively.
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How exactly does one translate this complexity into a couple of neat numbers of deputies who are elected weeks after opening day, are in two parties at once, were elected on a joint ticket, or claim one party but vote against it? After all, people were electing a person here first and foremost, not a
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However, in many of these older
European elections, parties were more like transitory, overlapping groupings that have to be retroactively constructed from voting patterns and newspaper clippings. Knowledge's format often prefers or implies that there must be clear-cut groups with leaders, voters,
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In the 19th century, parliamentary elections did not work like they do today. Nowadays, we have the luxury of readily available deputy lists, with everyone being a firm member of a solidified, institutionalized party, complete with a website and a platform. The numbers are known, easily found, and
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Terry however notes some discrepancies in the footnotes. On page 179 he agrees with the data that the Wafd won 179 seats in the 1924 election, but in the footnotes he notes that the
British Foreign Office claims the Wafd won 178 seats. On page 183 he agrees with Quraishi (unbeknownst to him he is
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Marsot's book does not cover the entirety of this period, but is still recommended reading for this subject. There's no table in the book, and some data is incomplete, so I made by own table to summarize the data with page numbers.
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put
Wafdist popular vote at 60%. A similar thing happens on page 189. He cities Quraishi when saying the Wafd won 171 seats with 68% of the vote in the 1926 election, but in the footnote he clarifies that
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TLDR: Different sources give different numbers. The German source (the one most used in articles on early 20th century
Egyptian elections) doesn't even include 1931 or the 1939 election.
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puts the result as 144 seats for the Wafd out of 201, with the
Liberal Constitutional Party getting 28, the Watani getting 5, 17 seats by Independents. and 7 by Ittihad.
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This section on my talk page is here to document the different ways historians have counted elections in the
Kingdom of Egypt. I understand Knowledge uses
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actually citing El-Khatib) that the Wafd received 46% of the vote in the 1925 election, but in the footnote he says that a
February 10th 1950 edition of
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Enthusiasm: Political Power and the Second Stratum in Egypt (1978) by Leonard Binder
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History of Modern Egypt : From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak by P. J. Vatikiotis
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Politische Organisation und Repräsentation in Afrika: Band 2 Afrika
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Politische Organisation und Repräsentation in Afrika: Band 2 Afrika
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by Zaheer Masood Quraishi (1967). That 1967 book is cited by "
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Liberal Nationalism in Egypt; Rise and Fall of the Wafd Party
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The Working of Parliamentary Institutions in Egypt, 1924-1952
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1398:16,499 (.7%)
1395:14,803 (.6%)
1351:Independents
1339:Watani Party
1240:Watani Party
1162:Independents
1156:Watani Party
1078:Independents
985:Independents
982:Watani Party
915:1,904 (4.3%)
889:Independents
877:Watani Party
793:Independents
787:Watani Party
697:Independents
691:Watani Party
636:11.465 (17%)
633:2,931 (4.4%)
601:Independents
595:Watani Party
540:5,103 (7.6%)
511:Independents
508:Watani Party
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289:125 (47.4%)
194:225 (70.5%)
189:240 (90.9%)
186:169 (72.8%)
183:198 (83.9%)
180:150 (69.8%)
174:188 (87.5%)
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1408:226 (70.8%)
1345:Kutla Party
1300:126 (47.8%)
1249:Indepedents
1246:Kutla Party
1201:232 (87.9%)
1120:105 (39.8%)
1030:190 (81.9%)
883:Sha'b Party
838:216 (93.1%)
729:22,136 (2%)
646:113 (53.6%)
553:179 (84.9%)
486:Candidates
378:38 (16.1%)
370:27 (12.5%)
362:33 (10.4%)
359:29 (10.9%)
353:42 (18.1%)
312:29 (10.9%)
1807:Categories
1440:2,488,744
1342:Sa‘d Party
1320:1,763,371
1306:38 (14.4%)
1294:75 (28.4%)
1243:Sa'd Party
1224:1,267,004
1153:Wafd Party
1140:1,774,038
1123:87 (32.9%)
1075:Sa'd Party
1069:Wafd Party
1056:1,281,085
937:40 (36.7%)
864:1,002,662
768:1,135,264
745:29 (13.7%)
658:22 (10.4%)
655:29 (13.8%)
464:Al-Musawar
373:129 (60%)
356:17 (6.4%)
348:20 (9.3%)
319:Socialist
292:28 (8.8%)
232:10 (4.6%)
220:26 (8.1%)
211:17 (7.3%)
90:this video
1426:31 (9.7%)
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1303:18 (6.8%)
1210:14 (5.3%)
1207:13 (4.9%)
1117:14 (5.3%)
1033:15 (6.5%)
924:277 (.6%)
742:171 (81%)
556:20 (9.5%)
436:Download
336:1 (0.3%)
286:1 (0.4%)
273:Sa'dists
268:6 (1.9%)
265:7 (2.7%)
262:2 (0.8%)
259:4 (1.7%)
254:5 (2.3%)
217:74 (28%)
214:4 (1.5%)
206:30 (14%)
177:86 (40%)
29:This user
1542:Ittihad
1414:6 (1.6%)
1297:7 (2.6%)
1204:5 (1.9%)
1126:58 (22%)
1042:9 (3.9%)
1039:4 (1.7%)
946:18 (12%)
940:84 (56%)
934:8 (5.3%)
844:4 (1.7%)
841:5 (2.2%)
754:5 (2.4%)
748:5 (2.4%)
652:7 (3.2%)
649:40 (19%)
562:2 (2.3%)
559:7 (3.2%)
1730:Watani
1525:Watani
1423:1 (.3%)
1036:14 (6%)
960:43,586
672:67,342
576:67,504
1575:Total
1467:Party
1435:Total
1315:Total
1219:Total
1159:Others
1135:Total
1051:Total
955:Total
886:Others
859:Total
850:7 (3%)
763:Total
751:1 (5%)
667:Total
571:Total
492:Seats
489:Votes
483:Party
391:Total
367:Other
142:Party
110:party.
36:Muslim
1724:Wafd
1721:Year
1690:1950
1679:1942
1668:1938
1657:1936
1646:1929
1635:1926
1624:1924
1613:Year
1487:Wafd
1328:1950
1232:1945
1148:1942
1064:1938
968:1936
872:1931
776:1929
680:1926
584:1925
497:1924
171:Wafd
166:1950
163:1945
160:1942
157:1936
154:1929
151:1926
148:1925
145:1923
64:Egypt
32:is a
1764:165
1752:116
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1587:235
1584:201
1581:124
1578:175
1520:192
1499:212
1496:144
1493:116
1490:151
1443:319
1333:Wafd
1323:264
1227:264
1143:264
1059:232
973:Wafd
963:150
867:232
781:Wafd
771:221
685:Wafd
675:222
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502:Wafd
438:here
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1376:345
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1361:108
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1268:253
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1256:145
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1169:270
1094:139
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