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1947 Syrian parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Syria
flag_year	1932
type	parliamentary
party1	Liberal Party (Syria)
party2	Independent
party3	National Party (Syria)
seats_for_election	All 127 seats in the House of Representatives
majority_seats	64
election_date
seats1	53
seats2	50
seats3	24
previous_year	1943
next_year	1949
previous_election	1943 Syrian parliamentary election
next_election	1949 Syrian parliamentary election
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Jamil Mardam Bey
after_election	Jamil Mardam Bey
colour1	FFA500

The 1947 Syrian parliamentary election was held on 7 July 1947, with a second round in some constituencies on 18 July, to elect members to the House of Representatives of Syria. They were the first elections since the country's independence in 1946.

Electoral system

A new electoral law was approved by Parliament in May 1947. This introduced a two-round system, with members elected from single-member constituencies by universal male suffrage. Any candidate that received more than 10% of the vote was allowed to contest the second round if no candidate had received an absolute majority. Ten seats were reserved for Bedouins, one of which was for the Jabal Druze. The electoral law also required voting to be extended by a day if first round turnout in a constituency was less than 60%.

Campaign

Prior to the elections, the National Bloc split into two factions. The National Party of President Shukri al-Quwatli was formed in early 1947, with a group of Aleppo-based opponents of al-Quwatli forming another faction. Al-Quwatli's opponents and members of the newly formed Ba'ath Party contested the elections together under the Liberal Party (Hizb al-Ahrar) name.

Neither the National Party or its opponents produced a lengthy manifesto. The National Party was largely interested in protecting wealthy residents of Damascus, while the Aleppo-based opposition published a short manifesto proposing reforms in rural areas to raise the standard of living.

Results

Aftermath

Following the elections, Fares al-Khoury was elected Speaker and incumbent Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey was appointed to form a government by al-Quwatli. In 1948 the non-Ba'ath Party opposition members formed the People's Party.

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p221 {{ISBN. 0-19-924958-X
Karim Atassi (2018) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=gSVTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA145 Syria, the Strength of an Idea: The Constitutional Architectures of Its Political Regimes]'', pp144–147

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