1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

←  1953 27 February & 8 March 1958 1965  →
30 of the 50 seats in the Senate 26 seats needed for a majority All 173 seats in the House of Representatives 87 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Abdullah Khalil Ismail al-Azhari Party NUP DUP House seats 63 45 Change 41 6 Senate seats 21 10 Change 13 21
Prime Minister before election Abdallah Khalil NUP Elected Prime Minister Abdallah Khalil NUP

Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 27 February and 8 March 1958 to elect members of the Senate and the House of Representatives. ^[1] The first elections held since independence in 1956, they had originally been scheduled for August 1957 but were postponed by the Sovereignty Council, which had been in office since December 1955, on the grounds that flooding would disrupt voting. ^[2] The elections resulted in a victory for the Umma Party, led by Prime Minister Abdallah Khalil, which won 63 of the 173 seats in the House of Representatives.

The Southern Sudan Federal Party competed in the election and won 40 of the 46 seats allocated to the southern provinces. Its platform posed a serious challenge to the authorities. ^[3] However, when it became clear that the party’s demands for a federal structure would be disregarded by the Constituent Assembly, the southern members of parliament withdrew from Parliament on 16 June 1958. ^[4]

Results

Senate

Party		Seats
		Elected	Nominated	Total	+/–
	Umma Party	14	7	21	+13
	National Unionist Party	5	5	10	−21
	People's Democratic Party	4	5	9	New
	Federal Bloc (Southern)	7	3	10	+4
Total		30	20	50	0
Source: Sternberger et al. [5]

House of Representatives

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Umma Party			63	41
	National Unionist Party			45	−6
	Southern Sudan Federal Party			38	New
	People's Democratic Party			27	New
Total				173	+76
Registered voters/turnout		1,582,909	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

1. Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p851 ISBN   0-19-829645-2
2. Elections in Sudan Embassy of Sudan in South Africa
3. Viva Ona Bartkus (1999). The dynamic of secession . Cambridge University Press. p.  136. ISBN   0-521-65970-1.
4. Gabriel Warburg (1978). Islam, nationalism and communism in a traditional society: the case of Sudan. Routledge. p. 105. ISBN   0-7146-3080-2.
5. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1986