Sudanese parliamentary election, 1958

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27 February & 8 March 1958

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All 173 seats to the Parliament
All 30 seats to the Senate

	First party	Second party

Leader	Abdullah Khalil	Ismail al-Azhari
Party	Umma Party	NUP
Parliamentary Seats	63	45
Parliamentary Change	41	6
Senate Seats	21	10
Senate Change	13	21

Prime Minister before election

Ismail al-Azhari
DUP

Elected Prime Minister

Abdallah Khalil
Umma Party

Ismail al-Azhari
DUP

Abdallah Khalil
Umma Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 27 February and 8 March 1958. The first elections since independence in 1956, they were supposed to be held in August 1957, but were postponed by the ruling council, who claimed that flooding would affect the vote. The result was a victory for the Umma Party, which won 63 of the 173 seats.

The Southern Sudan Federal Party competed in the election, and won 40 of the 46 seats allocated to the southern provinces. The party platform represented a serious challenge to the authorities. However, when it became clear that the party's demands for a federal structure would be ignored by the Constituent Assembly, on 16 June 1958 the southern MPs left parliament.

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