Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)

Liberal Constitutional Party حزب الاحرار الدستوريين
Historical leader	Adli Yakan Pasha
Founded	October 30, 1922 (1922-10-30)
Dissolved	July 23, 1952 (1952-07-23)
Split from	Wafd Party
Headquarters	Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt
Newspaper	Al-Siyāsa
Ideology	Constitutionalism Social liberalism Anglophilia
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	None
Colours	Violet
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The Liberal Constitutional Party (Arabic: حزب الاحرار الدستوريين, Ḥizb al-aḥrār al-dustūriyyīn) was a Egyptian political party founded in 1922 by a group of politicians that left the Wafd Party.

History

The Liberal Constitutional Party was founded in 1922 during a meeting chaired by Adli Yakan Pasha, and some time later the party launched a newspaper, the al-Siyāsa (The Politics). Several Wafd-liberal like Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha, Muhammad Husayn Haykal and Ali Mahir Pasha jioned in the party.

The party, despite the Wafd that has been nationalist and conservative views, supported the creation of a liberal constitution (approved in 19 April, 1923), the secularization of the State, the approach to the United Kingdom and also the total unification of Egypt and Sudan.

Its pacifist and moderate goals, retained from people's the majority too much anglophile, impeded the extension of the electoral base, limited to the upper class, landowners and British Egyptians.

The party was banned, like the others political parties, after the coup d'état of 1952.

Leaders

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

Electoral results

House of Representatives
Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
1926	unknown (#2)		30 / 215	New	Adli Yakan Pasha
1936	unknown (#2)		17 / 232	13	Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
1942	unknown (#2)		4 / 264	13	Ali Mahir Pasha
1945	unknown (#2)		74 / 264	70	Ali Mahir Pasha
1950	unknown (#3)		26 / 319	48	Ali Mahir Pasha