National Legislature of Sudan

National Legislature of Sudan

الهيئة التشريعية الوطنية السودانية
National Legislature of Sudan ; الهيئة التشريعية الوطنية السودانية
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Council of States; (upper house)National Assembly; (lower house)
History
Founded	2005
Disbanded	2019
Succeeded by	Transitional Legislative Council
Leadership
Speaker of the Council of States	Omar Suleiman Adam (last)
Speaker of the National Assembly	Ibrahim Ahmed Omer Ahmed (last)
Structure
Seats	458 Council of States: 32; National Assembly: 426;
Council of States political groups	Partisan (28); Vacant (4);
National Assembly political groups	Government (323) National Congress Party (323); Opposition (103) Democratic Unionist Party (25); National Umma Party (3); Others (56); Independents (19);
Elections
Council of States voting system	Indirect election
National Assembly voting system	Mixed member majoritarian: 213 seats are elected by First-past-the-post; 128 seats reserved for women are elected by Closed list proportional representation; 85 seats unreserved are elected by Closed list proportional representation;
Last Council of States election	19 May 2015
Last National Assembly election	13–16 April 2015
Meeting place
	Omdurman, Sudan
Website
	The National Legislature (permanent dead link)

The National Legislature of Sudan (Arabic: الهيئة التشريعية الوطنية السودانية, al-maǧlis at-tašrīʿī) is the legislative branch of the government of Sudan.

Prior to the 2019 coup d'état, it was composed of two chambers:

The Council of States (مجلس الولايات السوداني, al-maǧlis al-wilāyāt).
The National Assembly (الجمعية الوطنية السودانية, al-maǧlis al-waṭaniy).

The National Legislature was dissolved on 11 April 2019 following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir and his National Congress Party in a military coup.

As part of the Sudanese transition to democracy, a Transitional Legislative Council was to have been formed which would function as the legislature of Sudan until elections initially scheduled for 2022.

Amendments made to the transitional constitution in February 2025, established a "Transitional Legislative Authority" made up of the members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and Cabinet of Sudan to act as an interim legislature until a Transitional Legislative Council is formally established.