Daraa () was an electoral district used to elect members of the Syrian Chamber of Deputies between 1931 and 1963.
Electoral system
Under the 1928 electoral system, Syria adopted its first formal electoral law after the Ottoman period and under the French Mandate. Promulgated by arrêté No. 1889 of High Commissioner Ponsot, the system created a two-tier indirect electoral system. Male citizens over the age of 21 would elect secondary electors, at a ratio of one elector per hundred first-tier voters, who would then elect members of parliament. The number of seats was determined before every election based on the proportional population size of each electoral district, with seats allocated across religious communities according to their numerical share. The system was criticised for entrenching the influence of local notables, elites, and landowners, with limited direct popular participation.
In 1947, the government of Jamil Mardam Bey introduced a new direct electoral system. The system was applied for the first time in the 1947 elections and was amended twice, in 1954 and 1961. It remained in force through the 1961 elections and until the fall of the Second Republic in 1963.
Until 1949, the electorate consisted of Syrian men aged 20 and over. Following Husni al-Za'im's seizure of power, the voting age was lowered to 18 and women were granted the right to vote. The subsequent Hashim al-Atassi government retained the lower voting age but restricted women's suffrage to literate women only, without the right to stand for election. It was not until the 1954 elections, held under the 1950 constitution, that women of all educational backgrounds were granted equal rights to vote and stand for office. Deputies +Elections Deputy(Party) Deputy(Party) Deputy(Party) 1931–32 rowspan="4" Muhammad al-Muflih al-Zoubi(Independent) 1 seat 1936 Mustafa al-Miqdad(N/A) 2 seats 1943 Muzeid al-Mahamid(N/A) 1947 Mustafa al-Dukhan(N/A) 1949 Abd al-Latif al-Miqdad(N/A) 1950 rowspan="2" Muhammad al-Muflih al-Zoubi(Independent) Muflih al-Mahamid(N/A) 1951 1953 Merged into Daraa and al-Zawiya Muhammad al-Muflih al-Zoubi(Independent) Muflih al-Mahamid(N/A) 2 seats 1954 (Oct) Mazid al-Fadil al-Muhamid(N/A) rowspan="2" Abd al-Latif al-Miqdad(Independent) 1961 Muhammad al-Muflih al-Zoubi(Independent) Ibrahim Rizq Abazayd(Independent)
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