1958 Kuwaiti general election

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General elections were held in Kuwait on 28 March 1958.[1] Voters elected 55 members of a new advisory council. However, due to a dispute with the government, the new council was never convened.

Background[edit]

Following two elections in 1938 and a dispute between Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the elected Legislative Council, the sheikh dissolved the council in March 1939 and replaced it with a fully-appointed advisory council. However, the council ceased meeting in July 1940 after an investigation into the treasury's accounts.[2]

In 1954 a petition was circulated calling for an elected council.[3] Four years later Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, who had been involved in the creation of the original Legislative Council, held elections for a new advisory council.[3]

Results[edit]

Several of those elected had been elected to the previous Legislative Council in 1938, including Abdul Latif Mohammed Thunayan Al-Ghanim, Mishaan Khudair Mishaan Khudair, Nisf Youssef Al-Nisf, Youssef Abdul Wahab Al-Adsani and Youssef Saleh Al-Humaidhi.

CandidateVotes%Notes
Youssef Al-Fulaij397Elected
Abdulaziz Al-Hamad Al-Saqr370Elected
Hamad Abdul Mohsen Al-Mishari367Elected
Badr Al-Salem360Elected
Muhammad Abdul Mohsen Al-Nasser Al-Kharafi354Elected
Hammoud Al-Zaid Al-Khaled352Elected
Suleiman Al-Bassam328Elected
Mishaan Khudair Mishaan Khudair326Elected
Jassim Abdulaziz Abdulwahab Al-Qatami325Elected
Ahmed Saud Al-Khaled314Elected
Yousef Ibrahim Al-Ghanim311Elected
Hamad Al-Humaidhi302Elected
Khaled Suleiman Al-Adsani294Elected
Marzouk Bodi279Elected
Abdul Wahab Al-Othman272Elected
Khalifa Khaled Al-Ghunaim271Elected
Abdul Hamid Abdul Aziz Al-Sanea271Elected
Fahad Al-Marzouq263Elected
Yacoub Al-Hamed261Elected
Muhammad Youssef Al-Nisf258Elected
Ahmed Mohammed Al-Khatib251Elected
Muhammad Al-Bahr246Elected
Fahad Al-Sultan244Elected
Ahmed Al-Fahd240Elected
Abdul Latif Mohammed Thunayan Al-Ghanim239Elected
Dakheel Jassar238Elected
Abdul Latif Al-Shaya237Elected
Youssef Saleh Al-Humaidhi235Elected
Nisf Youssef Al-Nisf234Elected
Badr Sheikh Youssef230Elected
Sabeeh Al-Barrak Al-Sabeeh226Elected
Abdul Latif Al-Nisf218Elected
Marzouq Al-Abdulwahab214Elected
Ali Abdul Rahman Al-Bahr210Elected
Salem Al-Qattan208Elected
Yousef Ibrahim Al-Ghanim208Elected
Abdul Razzaq Khaled Al-Zaid Al-Khaled204Elected
Khaled Al-Kharafi201Elected
Barak Abdul Mohsen Al-Ajeel199Elected
Fahd Al-Rasheed188Elected
Suleiman Jalifa Al-Shaheen185Elected
Youssef Abdul Wahab Al-Adsani182Elected
Abdullah Abdul Latif Al-Othman181Elected
Mahmoud Issa Al-Asfour174Elected
Muhammad Mulla Hussein171Elected
Abdulaziz Al-Rashed170Elected
Abdul Razzaq Hamad Al-Khaled167Elected
Ali Al-Jassar167Elected
Abdullah Al-Dakhil167Elected
Abdulaziz Al-Fawzan165Elected
Abdullah Al-Shaya164Elected
Hamoud Al-Mudhaf159Elected
Ahmed Al-Fawzan159Elected
Abdullah Mishari Abdullah Al-Roudhan152Elected
Marzouq Khaled Youssef Al-Ghunaim151Elected
Total
Source: Al Qabas

Aftermath[edit]

Following the elections, the government demanded that three of the elected members resign from their posts. As a result, the newly elected council never met.[3] The sheikh appointed members to a new Supreme Council the following year and in 1961 elections to a constitutional convention were held.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "الانتخابات 1958". Kuwait Politics.
  2. ^ Kamal Osman Salih (1992). "The 1938 Kuwait Legislative Council" (PDF). Middle Eastern Studies. 28 (1): 66–100. JSTOR 4283478.
  3. ^ a b c d Courtney Freer (2024). The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait: Rentierism, Ideology, and Mobilization. Oxford University Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 978-0-19-757036-4.
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