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Deutsch1953 Sudanese parliamentary election
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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 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
[edit]House of Representatives
[edit]| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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| National Unionist Party | 229,221 | 51 | ||
| Umma Party | 190,822 | 22 | ||
| Southern Party | 9 | |||
| Socialist Republican 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
[edit]| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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| Elected | Nominated | Total | ||||||
| National Unionist Party | 21 | 10 | 31 | |||||
| Umma Party | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||||
| Southern Party | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||||
| Socialist Republican Party | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Independents | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Total | 30 | 20 | 50 | |||||
| Total votes | 4,092 | – | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,926 | 83.07 | ||||||
| Source: Nohlen et al., Sternberger et al | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (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
