1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

none 1958 Sudanese parliamentary election Sudan 1956 parliamentary no 1953 Sudanese parliamentary election 1953 1965 Sudanese parliamentary election 1965 House seats Change Senate seats Change 30 of the 50 seats in the Senate26 seats needed for a majorityAll 173 seats in the House of Representatives87 seats needed for a majority 27 February & 8 March 1958 150x150px Abdullah Khalil National Umma Party 63 41 21 13 150x150px Ismail al-Azhari National Unionist Party (Sudan) 45 6 10 21 Prime Minister Abdallah Khalil National Umma Party Abdallah Khalil National Umma Party Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 27 February and 8 March 1958 to elect members of the Senate and the House of Representatives.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p851 0-19-829645-2 The first elections held since independence in 1956, they had originally been scheduled for August 1957 but were postponed by the Sovereignty Council, which had been in office since December 1955, on the grounds that flooding would disrupt voting.Elections in Sudan Embassy of Sudan in South Africa The elections resulted in a victory for the Umma Party, led by Prime Minister Abdallah Khalil, which won 63 of the 173 seats in the House of Representatives.Gosnell Harold F. 1958 The 1958 Elections in the Sudan https://www.jstor.org/stable/4323052 Middle East Journal 12 4 409–417 0026-3141 The Southern Sudan Federal Party competed in the election and won 40 of the 46 seats allocated to the southern provinces. Its platform posed a serious challenge to the authorities.Viva Ona Bartkus https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780521659703 The dynamic of secession Cambridge University Press 1999 0-521-65970-1 136 registration However, when it became clear that the party’s demands for a federal structure would be disregarded by the Constituent Assembly, the southern members of parliament withdrew from Parliament on 16 June 1958.Gabriel Warburg Gabriel Warburg https://books.google.com/books?id=T7aht1_gXSgC&pg=PA105 Islam, nationalism and communism in a traditional society: the case of Sudan Routledge 1978 0-7146-3080-2 105 Results Senate File:Sudan Senate 1958.svg Elected Nominated Total +/– Umma Party 14 7 21 +13 National Unionist Party 5 5 10 −21 People's Democratic Party 4 5 9 New Federal Bloc (Southern) 7 3 10 +4 #0F47AF 30 20 50 0 Sternberger et al.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1986 House of Representatives File:Sudan House of Representatives 1958.svg Umma Party 63 41 National Unionist Party 45 −6 Southern Sudan Federal Party 38 New #0F47AF People's Democratic Party 27 New +76 1582909 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 188–195 The First Five Years, 1953-58: The 1958 Elections Gosnell Harold F. 1958 The 1958 Elections in the Sudan 4323052 Middle East Journal 12 4 409–417 0026-3141 Leo Silberman 1958 The Rise and Fall of Democracy In the Sudan https://academic.oup.com/pa/article/VII/3/303/1474982/THE-GENERAL-ELECTION-IN-THE-SUDAN Parliamentary Affairs en XII 3 349–376 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a053576 1460-2482 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 Category:1958 in Sudan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results