Sudanese parliamentary election, 1953

2 & 25 November 1953

All 97 seats to the Parliament All 50 seats to the Senate

	First party	Second party

Leader	Ismail al-Azhari	Abdullah Khalil
Party	NUP	Umma Party
Seats won		37
Parliamentary Seats	51	22
Senate Seats	31	8

Chief Minister before election

Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi

Elected Chief Minister

Ismail al-Azhari

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Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 2 and 25 November 1953,^[1] prior to the implementation of home rule. The result was a victory for the National Unionist Party, which won 51 of the 97 seats in Parliament. The NUP also obtained a majority in the Senate, where they won 21 of the 30 indirectly elected seats (elected by local and provincial councils) and 10 of the 20 members were nominated to the Senate by the British Governor-General. Although the Umma Party and some of the British press alleged that Egypt had interfered in the election, it was generally seen as free and fair.^[2]

Results

Parliament

Party		Votes	Seats
	National Unionist Party	229,221	51
	Umma Party	190,822	22
	Southern Party		9
	Republican Socialist Party		3
	Anti-Imperialist Front		1
	Independents		11
Total			97
Registered voters/turnout		1,687,000	−
Source: Nohlen et al., Sternberger et al.^[3]

Senate

Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	Indirectly-elected	Nominated	Total
	National Unionist Party			21	10	31
	Umma Party			4	4	8
	Southern Party			3	3	6
	Republican Socialist Party			1	0	1
	Independents			1	3	4
Total		4,092		30	20	50
Registered voters/turnout		4,926	83.1	−	−	−
Source: Nohlen et al., Sternberger et al.

References

↑ Nohlen, D, Krennerich, M & Thibaut, B (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p851 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
↑ Cowen, L & Laakso, L (2002) Multi-Party Elections in Africa, p254
↑ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1985

Elections and referendums in Sudan

Presidential elections	1971 1977 1983 1996 2000 2010 2015

Parliamentary elections	1948 1953 1958 1965 1968 1974 1978 1980 1981–82 1986 1996 2000 2010 2015

Gubernatorial elections	2010

Referendums	1998 2016 (Darfur)

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