1968 Sudanese parliamentary election

none Sudan 1956 parliamentary 1965 Sudanese parliamentary election 1965 1974 Sudanese parliamentary election 1974 All 218 seats in Parliament 110 12 April – 2 May 1968 3,051,118 1,862,901 (61.06%) 130x130px Ismail al-Azhari.webp Ismail al-Azhari Democratic Unionist Party (Sudan) 62 101 39 742,226 40.79% Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi 1964.jpg 006803 Sadiq al-Mahdi Umma–Sadiq – 36 New 384,986 21.16% Imam al-Mahdi al-Hahdi.png 006803 Imam al-Hadi al-Mahdi Umma–Imam – 30 New 329,952 18.13% Prime Minister Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub National Umma Party Sudan Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub National Umma Party Sudan 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.Sudan Inter-Parliamentary Union 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%.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p855 0-19-829645-2 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.Dictionary Of Modern Arab History Routledge 259 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. Results File:Sudan Parliament 1968.svg Democratic Unionist Party 742226 101 +39 Umma Party–Sadiq 384986 36 New Umma Party–Imam 329952 30 New Sudan African National Union 60493 15 +5 Islamic Charter Front 44552 3 –2 Umma Party 43288 6 –86 Southern Front 39822 10 New Socialist Front 21814 0 New Socialists 19690 0 New Beja Congress 15382 3 –7 National Unionist Party 10159 0 New Tenants' Union 6661 0 New Workers' Forces 5204 1 New Nuba Mountains Union 3171 2 New Sudanese Nile Party 2704 1 New Liberal 1844 0 New Islamic 1772 0 New Western Sudan Union 1695 0 New Sudanese Communist PartySCP 1652 0 New Democratic South 1535 0 New Unity 1478 0 New Workers' Federation 668 0 New Peace 387 0 New Socialist Democrats 220 0 New National Unionist Party–Sadiq 63 0 New Congress of New Forces 33 0 New No political affiliationSCP Although the Sudanese Communist Party had been banned in 1966, and could not formally participate in the election, two candidates were listed in the official election results as 'Communists'. The party's general secretary Abdel Khaliq Mahjub was elected from Omdurman South but listed by the Election Commission as having 'no political affiliation'.ARR: Arab Report and Record https://books.google.com/books?id=ucG3AAAAIAAJ 1968 Economic Features, Limited 144Timothy Niblock Class and Power in Sudan: The Dynamics of Sudanese Politics, 1898–1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=-6GuCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA230 25 November 1987 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-1-349-08836-2 230Peter K. Bechtold Politics in the Sudan: Parliamentary and Military Rule in an Emerging African Nation https://books.google.com/books?id=eDMBAAAAMAAJ 1976 Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated 978-0-275-22730-2 249Robert S. Kramer Richard Andrew Lobban Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Historical Dictionary of the Sudan https://books.google.com/books?id=WAs7lGNkVBkC&pg=PA39 2013 Rowman & Littlefield 978-0-8108-6180-0 39 8264 1 New Independent Independents 70047 9 –12 43139 +11 3051118 Nohlen et al. References Further reading Bechtold Peter K. https://archive.org/details/politicsinsudanp0000bech Politics in the Sudan: Parliamentary and Military Rule in an Emerging African Nation 1976 Praeger Publishers 246–254 Return to Democracy, 1964-69: The 1968 Elections Gretton George 1968 The Law and the Constitution in the Sudan The World Today Royal Institute of International Affairs 24 8 314–323 0043-9134 40394155 Sudan Category:Parliamentary elections in Sudan Palriamentary Sudan Sudan