1968 Sudanese parliamentary election
12 April – 2 May 1968
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All 218 seats in Parliament 110 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 3,051,118 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 1,862,901 (61.06%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Member State of the Arab League |
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Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan between 12 April and 2 May 1968. The election followed the resignation of a third of the members of the Assembly elected in 1965. The result was a victory for the new Democratic Unionist Party, formed by a merger of the National Unionist Party and the People's Democratic Party in December 1967 and led by President Ismail al-Azhari, which won 101 of the 218 seats. Voter turnout was 61.0%.
In contrast, since the last election the Umma Party had fractured, with competing wings being led by Sadiq al-Mahdi and Imam al-Hadi al-Mahdi. Whilst Sadiq's Umma party emerged as the stronger of the two wings, Sadiq actually lost his own seat in the election to a rival from the Imam wing. In total the various Umma party affiliates won some 827,289 votes, or 45.46% of the vote, compared to the 40.8% won by the DUP. The Umma affiliates won only 72 seats, in contrast to the 90 seats won at the previous election.