Iraqi parliamentary election, 1958
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq
on 5 May 1958. Most political parties had been dissolved in 1954, but candidates supportive of the government won 140 of the 145 seats, whilst independent candidates won the remaining five.
On 14 July the government was overthrown in a military coup.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
on 5 May 1958. Most political parties had been dissolved in 1954, but candidates supportive of the government won 140 of the 145 seats, whilst independent candidates won the remaining five.
On 14 July the government was overthrown in a military coup.