1968 Sudanese parliamentary election

1968 Sudanese parliamentary election

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All 218 seats in Parliament
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ismail al-Azhari Sadiq al-Mahdi Imam al-Hadi al-Mahdi
Party DUP Umma–Sadiq Umma–Imam
Last election 62
Seats won 101 36 30
Seat change Increase39 New New
Popular vote 742,226 384,986 329,952
Percentage 40.79% 21.16% 18.13%

Prime Minister before election

Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub
NUP

Elected Prime Minister

Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub
NUP

Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan between 12 April and 2 May 1968. The election followed the resignation of a third of the members of the Assembly elected in 1965.[1] The result was a victory for the new Democratic Unionist Party, formed by a merger of the National Unionist Party and the People's Democratic Party in December 1967 and led by President Ismail al-Azhari, which won 101 of the 218 seats. Voter turnout was 61.0%.[2]

In contrast, since the last election the Umma Party had fractured, with competing wings being led by Sadiq al-Mahdi and Imam al-Hadi al-Mahdi. Whilst Sadiq's Umma party emerged as the stronger of the two wings, Sadiq actually lost his own seat in the election to a rival from the Imam wing.[3] In total the various Umma party affiliates won some 827,289 votes, or 45.46% of the vote, compared to the 40.8% won by the DUP. The Umma affiliates won only 72 seats, in contrast to the 90 seats won at the previous election.

  1. ^ Sudan Inter-Parliamentary Union
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p855 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
  3. ^ Dictionary Of Modern Arab History. Routledge. p. 259.