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1958 Iraqi parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Iraq
flag_year	1924
type	Parliamentary
previous_election	September 1954 Iraqi parliamentary election
previous_year	September 1954
next_election	1980 Iraqi parliamentary election
next_year	1980
seats_for_election	All 145 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
majority_seats	73
election_date	5 May 1958
party_name	no
colour1	A52A2A
image1	Nouri Al-Saeed, 1950s.jpg
leader1	Nuri as-Said
party1	Pro-government
last_election1	94
seats1	140
seat_change1	46
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Nuri al-Said
after_election	Ahmad Mukhtar Baban
image1_size	176px

Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 5 May 1958 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies. It was the last election in monarchical Iraq. Most political parties had been dissolved in 1954. The main opposition coalition, the National Union Front, decided to boycott the elections. Candidates supportive of the government won 140 of the 145 seats, whilst independent candidates won the remaining five. The new parliament lasted two months only. On 14 July the monarchical government was overthrown in a military coup, and another election the same year would institute Abd al-Karim Qasim as president of the new Iraqi Republic.

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

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