1953 Sudanese parliamentary election

none 1953 Sudanese parliamentary election Anglo-Egyptian Sudan parliamentary no 1948 Sudanese parliamentary election 1948 1958 Sudanese parliamentary election 1958 House seats Senate seats All 50 seats in the Senate26 seats needed for a majorityAll 97 seats in the House of Representatives49 seats needed for a majority 2 and 25 November 1953 150x150px Ismail al-Azhari National Unionist Party (Sudan) 51 31 150x150px Abdullah Khalil National Umma Party 22 8 Chief Minister Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi National Umma Party Ismail al-Azhari National Unionist Party (Sudan) Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 2 and 25 November 1953,Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p851 0-19-829645-2 prior to the implementation of home rule. The result was a victory for the recently founded National Unionist Party, led by Ismail al-Azhari, which won 51 of the 97 seats in the House of Representatives and was invited to form a government. The NUP also secured a majority in the Senate, winning 21 of the 30 indirectly elected seats, which were chosen by local and provincial councils; a further 10 of the 20 Senate members were nominated by British Governor-General. Although the Umma Party and sections of the British press alleged that Egypt had interfered in the election, it was generally regarded as free and fair.Cowen, L & Laakso, L (2002) Multi-Party Elections in Africa, p254 Results Senate File:Sudan Senate 1953.svg Elected Nominated Total National Unionist Party 21 10 31 Umma Party 4 4 8 Southern Party 3 3 6 #1560BD Socialist Republican Party 1 0 1 #FF0000 Independents 1 3 4 30 20 50 4092 4926 Nohlen et al., Sternberger et al House of Representatives File:Sudan House of Representatives 1953.svg National Unionist Party 229221 51 Umma Party 190822 22 Southern Party 9 #1560BD Socialist Republican Party 3 #FF0000 Anti-Imperialist Front 1 #ED2224 Independents 11 +22 1687000 Nohlen et al., Sternberger et al.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1985 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 177–184 The First Five Years, 1953-58: The 1953 Elections Mohamed Abdel-Aal Sayed Muhareb Amin Mahmoud Shaaban Ahmed Suleiman Ahmed 2022 The 1953 Elections in Sudan https://ijarlg.journals.ekb.eg/article_353020.html International Journal of Advanced Research on Law and Governance ar 4 1 244–260 10.21608/ijarlg.2024.284263.1079 2735-542X Sen Sukumar Abbas Mekki 1953 The General Election in the Sudan https://academic.oup.com/pa/article/VII/3/303/1474982/THE-GENERAL-ELECTION-IN-THE-SUDAN Parliamentary Affairs en VII 3 303-316 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a053175 1460-2482 Willis Justin 2007 ‘A Model of its Kind’: Representation and Performance in the Sudan Self-government Election of 1953 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03086530701523489 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History en 35 3 485–502 10.1080/03086530701523489 0308-6534 Willis Justin el Battahani Atta El 2010 'We changed the laws': Electoral practice and malpractice in Sudan since 1953 https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/afraf/adq003 African Affairs en 109 435 191–212 10.1093/afraf/adq003 0001-9909 Sudan Category:Parliamentary elections in Sudan Parliamentary Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Sudan