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Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 15 November 1948. [1]
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Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 15 November 1948. [1]
Constitutional reforms in 1948 replaced the appointed Advisory Council with a Legislative Assembly. [2] The new Assembly had 75 members, of which 10 were appointed by the Governor-General, 42 elected by electoral colleges in northern provinces, 13 nominated by the provincial councils in the three southern provinces and 10 directly-elected in Khartoum and Omdurman. [1]
The elections were boycotted by pro-Egyptian parties such as the National Front, leaving only the Umma Party and the Independence Front (which opposed union with Egypt) to contest the elections. [1] [3] Demonstrations led to the deaths of 10 deaths and 100 injured. [1]
The Umma Party won 26 seats and the Independence Front four. Most of the remaining 44 members had been elected due to the influence of officials and sheikhs. [4] Voter turnout in the directly-elected seats was only 18%. [1]
The newly-elected Legislative Assembly met for the first time on 15 December 1948. The Umma Party's Abdallah Khalil was elected Speaker. [4]
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