Elections in Sudan

In typical elections, 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 National Assembly were last held in 2015.

The National Legislature whose members were chosen in mid-2005 had two chambers. The National Assembly (Majlis Watani) had 426 members who represented the government, former rebels, and other opposition political parties. The Council of States (Majlis Welayat) had 32 members who were indirectly elected by state legislatures. All members of the National Legislature served five-year terms.

In the early twenty-first century, Sudan was a dominant-party state with the National Congress Party 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 2023 under the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy deal.<ref name="Vox_TMC_FFC_deal" /> However, since 15 April 2023, plans for an election have been stalled due to the ongoing civil war.

Latest elections

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President

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National Assembly

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History

• 1948 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1953 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1958 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1965 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1968 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1978 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1980 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1981–82 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1986 Sudanese parliamentary election
• 1996 Sudanese general election
• 2000 Sudanese general election
• 2010 Southern Sudanese general election
• 2010 Sudanese general election
• 2010 Sudanese general election in Jonglei
• 2010 Sudanese gubernatorial elections
• 2015 Sudanese general election

Next

• Next Sudanese general election

Sudan National Elections Commission

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.<ref name="Spectator_1948Sudan_election" />

Following the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, elections initially did not play a role in determining the composition of the interim national government, the South Sudan government, or the state legislatures.<ref name=":0">Template:Citation-attribution</ref> An out of date national census and, in the case of South Sudan, a complete lack of infrastructure for conducting an election, rendered the electoral process moot.<ref name=":0" /> As a result, all government officials and all governing bodies consisted of appointed officials until the completion of a census in 2008 and national elections in 2010.<ref name=":0" /> The SPLM rejected the results of the census, claiming that it underestimated populations in the South.<ref name=":0" /> The National Elections Act of 2008 provided the legal framework for conducting elections in Sudan, South Sudan, and in each state.<ref name=":0" /> The National Elections Commission was responsible for developing the regulations, rules, and orders for the election of the national president, South Sudan president, state governors, National Assembly, South Sudan Legislative Assembly, and state assemblies.<ref name=":0" />

See also

• Democracy in Africa
• 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