1953 Sudanese parliamentary election
2 and 25 November 1953
All 97 seats in the House of Representatives
All 50 seats in the Senate
  First party Second party
 
Leader Ismail al-Azhari Abdullah Khalil
Party DUP NUP
House seats 51 22
Senate seats 31 8
Chief Minister before election

Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi

 Elected Chief Minister

Ismail al-Azhari

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 House of Representatives. 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

House of Representatives

PartyVotes%Seats
National Unionist Party229,22151
Umma Party190,82222
Southern Party9
Socialist Republican Party3
Anti-Imperialist Front1
Independents11
Total97
Registered voters/turnout1,687,000–
Source: Nohlen et al., Sternberger et al.[3]

Senate

PartyVotes%Seats
ElectedNominatedTotal
National Unionist Party211031
Umma Party448
Southern Party336
Socialist Republican Party101
Independents134
Total302050
Total votes4,092–
Registered voters/turnout4,92683.07
Source: Nohlen et al., Sternberger et al

References

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