Iraqi parliamentary election, 1953

January 17, 1953

All 135 seats to the National Assembly 68 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Nuri as-Said	Taha al-Hashimi
Party	CUP	UPF
Last election	New party	New party
Seats won	67	11
Seat change	67	11

Prime Minister before election

Nureddin Mahmud
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Jamil al-Midfai
Independent

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Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 17 January 1953.^[1] The result was a victory for the Constitutional Union Party, which won 67 of the 135 seats. Only 57 seats were contested.^[2]

Results

Party		Leader	%	Seats	+/–
	Constitutional Union Party	Nuri as-Said		67	New
	United Popular Front	Taha al-Hashimi		11	New
	Socialist Nation Party	Sayyid Salih Jabr		8	New
	Istiqlal Party	Muhammad Mahdi Kubba		1	–4
	Independents			48	–82
Invalid/blank votes			–	–	–
Total				135	–3
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p97 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
↑ Nohlen et al., p101

Elections and referendums in Iraq

Parliamentary elections	1924 1925 1928 1930 1933 1934 1935 1937 (Feb) 1937 (Dec) 1939 1943 1947 1948 1953 1954 (Jun) 1954 (Sep) 1958 1980 1984 1989 1996 2000 2005 (Jan) 2005 (Dec) 2010 2014

Presidential elections	1995 2002

Governorate elections	2005 2009 2013 2014

Referendums	1921 2005

See also: Elections and referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan

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