1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

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1958 Sudanese parliamentary election
Flag of Sudan (1956-1970).svg
  1953 27 February & 8 March 1958 1965  

All 173 seats in the House of Representatives
30 of the 50 seats in the Senate
 First partySecond party
  Abdallah Khalil Official.png Ismail al-Azahri.jpg
Leader Abdullah Khalil Ismail al-Azhari
Party NUP DUP
House seats6345
ChangeIncrease2.svg41Decrease2.svg6
Senate seats2110
ChangeIncrease2.svg13Decrease2.svg21

Prime Minister before election

Ismail al-Azhari
DUP

Elected Prime Minister

Abdallah Khalil
NUP

Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 27 February and 8 March 1958. [1] The first elections since independence in 1956, they were supposed to be held in August 1957, but were postponed by the ruling council, who claimed that flooding would affect the vote. [2] The result was a victory for the Umma Party, which won 63 of the 173 seats.

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The Southern Sudan Federal Party competed in the election, and won 40 of the 46 seats allocated to the southern provinces. The party platform represented a serious challenge to the authorities. [3] However, when it became clear that the party's demands for a federal structure would be ignored by the Constituent Assembly, on 16 June 1958 the southern MPs left parliament. [4]

Results

House of Representatives

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Umma Party 6341
National Unionist Party 45−6
Southern Sudan Federal Party 38New
People's Democratic Party 27New
Total173+76
Registered voters/turnout1,582,909
Source: Nohlen et al.

Senate

PartySeats
ElectedNominatedTotal+/–
Umma Party 14721+13
National Unionist Party 5510−21
People's Democratic Party 459New
Federal Bloc (Southern)7310+4
Total3020500
Source: Sternberger et al. [5]

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