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| United Arab Republic presidential election, 1965 | ||||
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| December 1, 1965 | ||||
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| Nominee | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Amin Al-Hafiz | ||
| Party | Arab Socialist Union | Ba'ath Party | ||
| Home state | Egypt | Syria | ||
| Running mate | Anwar Sadat | Salah Al-Bitar | ||
| Popular vote | 8,262,906 | 883 | ||
| Percentage | 99.99% | 0.01% | ||
President before election
Gamal Abdel Nasser Arab Socialist Union
Elected President
Gamal Abdel Nasser Arab Socialist Union | ||||
The 1st United Arab Republic presidential election was held on December 1, 1965. The two registered parties at the time the Arab Socialist Union and the Ba'ath Party ran their respective candidates. The incumbent President, Gamal Nasser of the ASU, won in an immense landslide against Ba'ath candidate Amin Al-Hafiz. Although the election is widely considered to have been somewhat fradulent, stemming from the wildly improbable vote count for Nasser, it is still agreed that Nasser, regardless of how much fraud was perpetrated, won against Al-Hafiz.
Nominations[]
Arab Socialist Union[]
As the incumbent President, and an incredibly popular one at that, President Gamal Abdel Nasser was nominated by the ASU for the presidential election. Nasser chose his former Vice President and the current Speaker of the Egyptian National Assembly, Anwar Sadat, as his running mate.
Ba'ath Party[]
Amin Al-Hafiz was popular within Ba'athist circles for his compromise with Nasser that secured a pan-Arab future that would include both the Nasserists and the Ba'athists. As a result, the Ba'athist Party leadership nominated Al-Hafiz for the presidency. Al-Hafiz chose Salah al-Bitar, one of the key founders of the Ba'ath Party, as his running mate.