Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)

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Secretary-GeneralMuhammad Ali Alluba
Historical leaderAdli Yakan Pasha
(1922–1924)
Abdel Aziz Fahmy
(1924–1926)
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
(1926–1941)
Abdel Aziz Fahmy
(1941–1942)
Mohammed Hussein Heikal
(1943–1952)
Founded30 October 1922 (1922-10-30)
Dissolved17 January 1953 (1953-01-17)
Liberal Constitutional Party
حزب الاحرار الدستوريين
Secretary-GeneralMuhammad Ali Alluba
Historical leaderAdli Yakan Pasha
(1922–1924)
Abdel Aziz Fahmy
(1924–1926)
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
(1926–1941)
Abdel Aziz Fahmy
(1941–1942)
Mohammed Hussein Heikal
(1943–1952)
Founded30 October 1922 (1922-10-30)
Dissolved17 January 1953 (1953-01-17)
Split fromWafd Party
HeadquartersCairo
NewspaperAl Siyasa
IdeologyConstitutional monarchy
Liberal democracy
Social liberalism
Political positionCentre-left
Colours  Violet

The Liberal Constitutional Party (Arabic: حزب الاحرار الدستوريين, Ḥizb al-aḥrār al-dustūriyyīn) was an Egyptian political party founded in 1922 by a group of politicians who left the Wafd Party.

Leaders

The Liberal Constitutional Party was founded on 30 October 1922 during a meeting chaired by Adli Yakan Pasha, and some time later the party launched a newspaper, Al Siyasa (Politics). Several Wafd-origin liberals like Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha, Muhammad Husayn Haykal joined the party. Although the Wafd Party was nationalist and conservative views, the new party supported the constitution which was approved on 19 April 1923, the secularization of the State, the United Kingdom and also the total unification of Egypt and Sudan. Muhammad Alluba, a supporter of the Palestine cause, served as the general secretary of the party in the 1930s. It was banned, like the other political parties in Egypt, after the coup d'état of 1952.

Adly Yakan Pasha, the party's founder, and a three-time Prime minister of Egypt

Electoral history

House of Representatives elections

Election Party leader Seats +/– Position
1923–1924 Adly Yakan Pasha
20 / 211
Increase 20 Increase 2nd
1925
40 / 211
Increase 20 Steady 2nd
1926
29 / 211
Decrease 11 Steady 2nd
1929 Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
5 / 232
Decrease 24 Steady 2nd
1931
0 / 150
Decrease 5 Decrease Boycotted
1936
15 / 232
Increase 15 Increase 2nd
1938
77 / 264
Increase 62 Steady 2nd
1942 Abdel Aziz Fahmy
4 / 264
Decrease 73 Steady 2nd
1945 Mohammed Hussein Heikal
75 / 264
Increase 71 Steady 2nd
1950
28 / 319
Decrease 47 Decrease 3rd

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