Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 9 January 1945. Boycotted by the Wafd Party, they resulted in a victory for the Saadist Institutional Party, which won 126 of the 264 seats.
Results Dolf Sternberger et al, the Political Handbook and Atlas of the World and P. J. Vatikiotis give the totals as 125 seats for the Saadist Institutional Party, 74 seats for the Liberal Constitutional Party, 29 for the Wafdist Block, 7 for the National Party and 29 for independents. Egypt in 1945 has the same figures as except for independents, which it puts at 34, as well as 64 out of 140 Wafdists in the Senate. Six members of the Muslim Brotherhood ran the election, including its founder Hasan al-Banna who ran in Ismailia, but all candidates lost. The Political Handbook and Atlas of the World gives the numbers as 125 Saadist, 74 .
Aftermath Parliament sat on 18 January that year and was dissolved on 7 November 1949.
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