Sudanese parliamentary election, 1968

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12 April & 2 May 1968

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All 218 seats to the Parliament

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ismail al-Azhari	Sadiq al-Mahdi	Imam al-Hadi al-Mahdi
Party	DUP	Umma Party-Sadiq	Umma Party-Imam
Last election	59 (DUP) 3 (PDP)	New	New
Seats won	101	36	30
Seat change	38
Popular vote	742,226	384,986	329,952
Percentage	40.8%	21.2%	18.1%

Prime Minister before election

Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub
Umma Party

Elected Prime Minister

Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub
Umma Party

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.

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