Sudanese parliamentary election, 1958

Sudanese parliamentary election, 1958

27 February & 8 March 1958

All 173 seats to the Parliament
All 30 seats to the Senate
  First party Second party
 
Leader Abdullah Khalil Ismail al-Azhari
Party Umma Party NUP
Parliamentary Seats 63 45
Parliamentary Change Increase41 Decrease6
Senate Seats 21 10
Senate Change Increase13 Decrease21

Prime Minister before election

Ismail al-Azhari
DUP

Elected Prime Minister

Abdallah Khalil
Umma Party

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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.

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

Parliament

Party Votes % Seats +/-
Umma Party 63+41
National Unionist Party 45−6
Southern Sudan Federal Party 38New
People's Democratic Party 27New
Total 173+76
Registered voters/turnout1,582,90977.0
Source: Nohlen et al.

Senate

Party Votes % Seats
Indirectly-elected Nominated Total +/-
Umma Party 14721+13
National Unionist Party 5510−21
People's Democratic Party 459New
Federal Bloc (Southern) 7310+4
Total 3020500
Source: Sternberger et al.[5]

References

  1. Nohlen, D, Krennerich, M & Thibaut, B (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
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