Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)

Liberal Constitutional Party حزب الاحرار الدستوريين
Historical leader	Adli Yakan Pasha
Founded	30 October 1922 (1922-10-30)
Dissolved	23 July 1952 (1952-07-23)
Split from	Wafd Party
Headquarters	Cairo
Newspaper	Al Siyasa
Ideology	Constitutionalism Social liberalism
Political position	Centre-left
Colours	Violet
Politics of Egypt Political parties Elections

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.

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 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. It was banned, like the other political parties in Egypt, after the coup d'état of 1952.

Leaders

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

Electoral history

House of Representatives elections

Election	Party leader	Seats	+/–	Position
1926	Adli Yakan Pasha	30 / 215	30	2nd
1936	Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha	17 / 232	13	2nd
1942	Ali Mahir Pasha	4 / 264	13	2nd
1945		74 / 264	70	2nd
1950		26 / 319	48	3rd