Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)

{{Short description|Liberal political party in Egypt (1922–1952)}}

{{Infobox political party

| colorcode = {{party color|Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)}}

| name = Liberal Constitutional Party

| native_name = {{lang|ar|حزب الاحرار الدستوريين}}

| logo =

| leader1_title = Historical leader

| leader1_name = Adli Yakan Pasha
{{small|(1922-1933)}}
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
{{small|(1933-1941)}}
Ali Maher Pasha
{{small|(1941-1952)}}

| foundation = {{start date|1922|10|30|df=y}}

| dissolution = {{end date|1952|7|23|df=y}}

| split = Wafd Party

| headquarters = Cairo

| newspaper = Al Siyasa

| ideology = Constitutional monarchy
Liberal democracy
Social liberalism

| position = Centre-left

| colours = {{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)}}|border=darkgray}} Violet

| country = Egypt

}}

The Liberal Constitutional Party ({{langx|ar|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.

History

The Liberal Constitutional Party was founded in 1922 during a meeting chaired by Adli Yakan Pasha,{{cite book|author=Shillington, Kevin|title=Encyclopedia of African History|publisher=Routledge|page=800|date=2004}} and some time later the party launched a newspaper, the Al Siyasa (The Politics). Several Wafd-origin liberals like Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha, Muhammad Husayn Haykal and Ali Mahir Pasha 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.{{cite journal|author=Thomas Mayer|title=Egypt and the General Islamic Conference of Jerusalem in 1931|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|date=July 1982|volume=18|issue=3|page=315|jstor=4282896|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4282896}} It was banned, like the other political parties in Egypt, after the coup d'état of 1952.

File:YakanPasha.jpg, the party's founder, and a three-time Prime minister of Egypt ]]

=Leaders=

1922-1933 – Adli Yakan Pasha
1933-1941 – Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
1941-1952 – Ali Mahir Pasha

Electoral history

= House of Representatives elections =

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Election !Party leader ! Seats !+/– !Position
1926 \|{{center\|Adli Yakan Pasha}} \|{{Composition bar\|30\|215\|hex={{party color\|Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)}}}} \|{{increase}} 30 \|{{increase}} 2nd
1936 \|{{center\|Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha}} \|{{Composition bar\|17\|232\|hex={{party color\|Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)}}}} \|{{decrease}} 13 \|{{steady}} 2nd
1942 \| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" \|Ali Mahir Pasha \|{{Composition bar\|4\|264\|hex={{party color\|Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)}}}} \|{{decrease}} 13 \|{{steady}} 2nd
1945 \|{{Composition bar\|74\|264\|hex={{party color\|Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)}}}} \|{{increase}} 70 \|{{steady}} 2nd
1950 \|{{Composition bar\|26\|319\|hex={{party color\|Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)}}}} \|{{decrease}} 48 \|{{decrease}} 3rd

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Election

!Party leader

! Seats

!+/–

!Position

1926

|{{center|Adli Yakan Pasha}}

|{{Composition bar|30|215|hex={{party color|Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)}}}}

|{{increase}} 30

|{{increase}} 2nd

1936