Elections in Sudan

Sudan has had national level elections since 1948 while it was still an Anglo–Egyptian colony. Independence from or union with Egypt was a major electoral platform in the 1948 election. In typical elections since then, Sudan elects on a national level head of state - the president - and a legislature. In the election of 2010, there were two presidential elections, one for the Presidency of the Republic of Sudan and one for the Presidency of the Government of Southern Sudan. Elections for the unicameral, 360-member National Assembly were last held in April 2015.

The National Legislature whose members were chosen in mid-2005 had two chambers. The National Assembly (Majlis Watani) consisted of 450 appointed members who represented the government, former rebels, and other opposition political parties. The Council of States (Majlis Welayat) had 50 members who were indirectly elected by state legislatures. All members of the National Legislature served six-year terms.

In the early twenty-first century, Sudan was a dominant-party state with the National Congress in power. Opposition parties were allowed, but were widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.

On 11 April 2019, Sudan was taken over by a military junta after the military seized power from the President in a coup. Federal elections were tentatively scheduled for 2022 under the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy deal.

Latest elections

Presidential elections

Main article: 2015 Sudanese general election

Turnout by state.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Omar al-Bashir	National Congress Party	5,252,478	94.05
	Fadl el-Sayed Shuaib	Federal Truth Party	79,779	1.43
	Fatima Abdel Mahmoud	Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union	47,653	0.85
	Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed	National Reform Party	42,399	0.76
	Abdul Mahmoud Abdul Jabar Rahamtalla	Union of the Nation's Forces	41,134	0.74
	Hamdi Hassan Ahmed	Independent	18,043	0.32
	Mohamed Ahmed Abdul Gadir Al Arbab	Independent	16,966	0.30
	Yasser Yahiya Salih Abdul Gadir	Independent	16,609	0.30
	Khairi Bakhit	Independent	11,852	0.21
	Adel Dafalla Jabir	Independent	9,435	0.17
	Mohamed Awad Al Barow	Independent	9,388	0.17
	Asad Al Nil Adel Yassin Al Saafi	Independent	9,359	0.17
	Alam Al Huda Ahmed Osman Mohamed Ali	Independent	8,133	0.15
	Ahmed Al Radhi Jadalla Salem	Independent	7,751	0.14
	Isaam Al Ghali Tajj Eddin Ali	Independent	7,587	0.14
	Omar Awad Al Karim Hussein Ali	Independent	6,297	0.11
Total			5,584,863	100.00
Valid votes			5,584,863	91.68
Invalid/blank votes			506,549	8.32
Total votes			6,091,412	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			13,126,989	46.40
Source: NEC

Parliamentary elections

Main article: 2015 Sudanese general election

Party		Proportional			Reserved			Constituency			Total seats	+/–
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	National Congress Party	3,915,590	78.32	67	4,321,901	83.37	107			149	323	0
	Democratic Unionist Party–Original	218,120	4.36	4	249,768	4.82	6			15	25	+23
	Collective Leadership Umma Party	214,531	4.29	4						2	6	+5
	Democratic Unionist Party	114,806	2.30	2	137,265	2.65	3			10	15	+11
	Federal Umma Party	79,292	1.59	1	107,102	2.07	3			3	7	+4
	Freedom and Justice Party	60,373	1.21	1	36,899	0.71	1			1	3	–
	United Umma Party	49,923	1.00	1	63,770	1.23	2			1	4	–
	Umma Reform and Development Party	35,309	0.71	1	45,199	0.87	1			3	5	–
	National Umma Party	30,966	0.62	1						2	3	+2
	Federal Truth Party	30,254	0.61	1	33,046	0.64	1			0	2	–
	National Bond Party	30,079	0.60	1	43,199	0.83	1			0	2	–
	National Freedom and Justice Party	29,642	0.59	1						3	4	–
	Constitution Party	27,466	0.55	0	39,783	0.77	1			0	1	–
	Movement for Justice and Equality	26,723	0.53	0	18,493	0.36	0			0	0	–
	National Reform Party	25,990	0.52	0	30,107	0.58	1			0	1	–
	Popular Forces for Rights and Democracy Movement	23,089	0.46	0	27,260	0.53	1			0	1	–
	Justice Party	18,196	0.36	0						0	0	–
	National Movement for Peace and Development	17,231	0.34	0	14,732	0.28	0			0	0	–
	Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union	16,508	0.33	0						0	0	–
	People's Movement Party	14,018	0.28	0	15,595	0.30	0			1	1	–
	Sudanese National Front Party	12,740	0.25	0						0	0	–
	Sudanese Socialist Union Party al-Maywa	8,686	0.17	0						0	0	–
	Centre Party for Justice and Development									1	1	–
	General Federation of North and South Funj									1	1	–
	Ana al-Sudan									1	1	–
	Black Free									1	1	–
	Independents									19	19	+16
Total		4,999,532	100.00	85	5,184,119	100.00	128			213	426	–24
Source: NEC

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• African Elections Database
• Elections and the Probability of Violence in Sudan
• Sudan Electionnaire
• sudanvotes.com
• Electoral Designs: Representation, Proportionality and Constituency Boundaries in Sudan's 2010 Elections