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 |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Nuri al-Said |
After Election: | Ahmad Mukhtar Baban |
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 5 May 1958 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies.[1] 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.[2] 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.