1986 Sudanese parliamentary election

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1–12 April 1986

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260 of the 301 seats to the National Assembly
Elections delayed in 41 seats

Turnout

3,948,544 (67.5%)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi	Ahmed al-Mirghani	Hassan al-Turabi
Party	NUP	DUP	NIF
Seats won	100	63	51

Party with the most seats by region
Umma Party Democratic Unionist Party National Islamic Front Progressive People's Party Majority of seats unfilled

Prime Minister before election

Al-Jazuli Daf'allah
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi
NUP

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Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan between 1 and 12 April 1986. They were the first multi-party elections in the country since 1968, and saw a victory for the Umma Party, which emerged as the single largest party with 100 of the 260 filled seats in the National Assembly. No party emerged with a majority; the Umma Party formed a coalition government.

The election took place amidst the Second Sudanese Civil War, and voting was postponed indefinitely in 41 seats in Southern Sudan due to security concerns. Voter turnout was 67.5%. The election was among the freest and fairest elections in Africa up to that time.

To date, these are the last free elections held in Sudan.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Umma Party	1,508,334	38.44	100
	Democratic Unionist Party	1,163,961	29.67	63
	National Islamic Front	726,021	18.51	51
	Sudanese National Party	86,461	2.20	8
	Sudanese Communist Party	67,937	1.73	3
	National Umma Party	37,662	0.96	0
	Sudan Rural Forces Solidarity	37,070	0.94	0
	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party	35,767	0.91	0
	Sudan African People's Congress	31,944	0.81	7
	Umma Party–Iman	29,241	0.75	0
	Progressive People's Party	27,674	0.71	10
	Southern Sudanese Political Association	25,268	0.64	8
	Beja Congress	14,291	0.36	1
	Sudanese African Congress			2
	Sudan People's Federal Party			1
	Other parties	33,122	0.84	0
	Independents	98,606	2.51	6
Vacant				41
Total		3,923,359	100.00	301

Valid votes		3,923,359	99.36
Invalid/blank votes		25,185	0.64
Total votes		3,948,544	100.00
Source: Woodward

By constituency

Graduate constituencies


Party		%	Seats
	National Islamic Front	38.2	23
	Sudanese Communist Party	19.2	1
	Umma Party	15.9	0
	Democratic Unionist Party	9.6	0
	National Umma Party	2.0	0
	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party	2.0	0
	Progressive People's Party	0.4	2
	Southern Sudanese Political Association	0.3	1
	Sudan African People's Congress	0.2	0
	Sudanese African Congress		1
	Others	5.2	0
	Independents	7.0	0
Total			28

Source: Woodward

Khartoum


Party		%	Seats
	Democratic Unionist Party	30.5	9
	National Islamic Front	29.8	13
	Umma Party	20.7	6
	Sudanese Communist Party	6.0	2
	Sudanese National Party	4.5	1
	National Umma Party	2.4	0
	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party	2.1	0
	Sudan Rural Forces Solidarity	1.6	0
	Umma Party–Iman	0.1	0
	Other parties	0.7	0
	Independents	1.6	0
Total			31

Source: Woodward

Bahr el Ghazal


Party		%	Seats
	Southern Sudanese Political Association	44.5	3
	Umma Party	31.2	1
	National Islamic Front	23.4	0
	Independents	0.8	0
Vacant			24
Total			28

Source: Woodward

Equatoria


Party		%	Seats
	Sudan African People's Congress	38.0	7
	Progressive People's Party	32.5	8
	Southern Sudanese Political Association	16.9	2
	National Islamic Front	6.6	0
	Umma Party	0.3	0
	Other parties	1.4	0
	Independents	4.3	1
Vacant			2
Total			20

Source: Woodward

Upper Nile


Party		%	Seats
	Umma Party	37.1	1
	Southern Sudanese Political Association	21.8	2
	National Islamic Front	9.4	0
	Democratic Unionist Party	3.8	0
	Progressive People's Party	1.1	0
	Sudanese African Congress		1
	Sudan People's Federal Party		1
	Other parties	25.5	0
	Independents	1.3	0
Vacant			15
Total			20

Source: Woodward

References

^ Shinn, David H. (2015). "Elections" (PDF). In Berry, LaVerle (ed.). Sudan : a country study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 232–234. ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Sudan Inter-Parliamentary Union
Nohlen, D, Krennerich, M & Thibaut, B (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p856 ISBN 0-19-829645-2

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