1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

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All 173 seats in the House of Representatives
30 of the 50 seats in the Senate
  First party Second party
 
Leader Abdullah Khalil Ismail al-Azhari
Party NUP DUP
House seats 63 45
Change Increase41 Decrease6
Senate seats 21 10
Change Increase13 Decrease21

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.

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]

  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.