1953 Sudanese parliamentary election

2 and 25 November 1953

1958 →

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

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Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 2 and 25 November 1953, 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.

Results

House of Representatives


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	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.

Senate


Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	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

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

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