Country: | Kingdom of Iraq |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1922–1924 Iraqi Constituent Assembly election |
Next Election: | 1928 Iraqi parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1928 |
Seats For Election: | All 88 seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
Majority Seats: | 45 |
Election Date: | 8 June 1925 |
Party Name: | no |
Image1: | Abdel Muhsin Al-Sa'dun (3x4 cropped).jpg |
Leader1: | Abdul-Muhsin Al-Saadoun |
Party1: | Progress Party |
Last Election1: | 50 |
Seats1: | 60 |
Seat Change1: | 10 |
Leader2: | Yasin al-Hashimi |
Party2: | People's Party |
Last Election2: | 23 |
Seats2: | 28 |
Seat Change2: | 5 |
PM | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent PM |
Before Election: | Yasin al-Hashimi |
Before Party: | People's Party |
After Election: | Abdul-Muhsin Al-Saadoun |
After Party: | Progress Party |
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq in 1925, the first under the 1925 constitution.[1] After the elections, Abdul-Muhsin Al-Saadoun became Prime Minister for the second time and founded the Progress Party to support the government and gain a parliamentary majority.
King Faisal I wanted to remove Al-Saadoun from his office after he tried to reduce the king's powers; Faisal succeeded in persuading the majority of the Chamber of Deputies to vote for Rashid Ali al-Gaylani for speaker, rather than the candidate nominated by the Al-Saadoun government, resulting in Al-Saadoun's resignation. Faisal was also concerned that Al-Saadoun had too many allies in the British government and had the trust of the British High Commissioner,[2] so he made his two loyal men, Nuri al-Said and Jafar al-Askari, join the Progress Party and sabotage it.[3]