1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

27 February & 8 March 1958

30 of the 50 seats in the Senate
26 seats needed for a majority
All 173 seats in the House of Representatives
87 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Abdullah Khalil Ismail al-Azhari
Party NUP DUP
House seats 63 45
Change 41 6
Senate seats 21 10
Change 13 21

Prime Minister before election

Abdallah Khalil
NUP

Elected Prime Minister

Abdallah Khalil
NUP

Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 27 February and 8 March 1958 to elect members of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The first elections held since independence in 1956, they had originally been scheduled for August 1957 but were postponed by the Sovereignty Council, which had been in office since December 1955, on the grounds that flooding would disrupt voting. The elections resulted in a victory for the Umma Party, led by Prime Minister Abdallah Khalil, which won 63 of the 173 seats in the House of Representatives.

The Southern Sudan Federal Party competed in the election and won 40 of the 46 seats allocated to the southern provinces. Its platform posed a serious challenge to the authorities. However, when it became clear that the party’s demands for a federal structure would be disregarded by the Constituent Assembly, the southern members of parliament withdrew from Parliament on 16 June 1958.