National Legislature of Sudan
Bicameral legislature of Sudan
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The National Legislature of Sudan (Arabic: الهيئة التشريعية الوطنية السودانية, al-maǧlis at-tašrīʿī) is the legislative branch of the government of Sudan.
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National Legislature of Sudan الهيئة التشريعية الوطنية السودانية | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| 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
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Council of States political groups |
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National Assembly political groups | Government (323)
Opposition (103)
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| Elections | |
| Indirect election | |
Mixed member majoritarian:
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First Council of States election | 2005 |
First National Assembly election | 15 November 1948 |
Last Council of States election | 19 May 2015 |
Last National Assembly election | 13–16 April 2015 |
| Meeting place | |
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| Omdurman, Sudan | |
| Website | |
| The National Legislature (permanent dead link) | |
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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
Latest election
National Assembly
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| Party | Proportional | Women | Constituency | Total seats | +/– | |||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
| National Congress Party | 3,915,590 | 78.32 | 67 | 4,321,901 | 83.37 | 107 | 149 | 323 | –1 | |||
| Democratic Unionist Party–Original | 218,120 | 4.36 | 4 | 249,768 | 4.82 | 6 | 15 | 25 | +24 | |||
| Umma Collective Leadership | 214,531 | 4.29 | 4 | 2 | 6 | +5 | ||||||
| Democratic Unionist Party | 114,806 | 2.30 | 2 | 137,265 | 2.65 | 3 | 10 | 15 | +11 | |||
| Federal Umma Party | 79,292 | 1.59 | 1 | 107,102 | 2.07 | 3 | 3 | 7 | +4 | |||
| Freedom and Justice Party | 60,373 | 1.21 | 1 | 36,899 | 0.71 | 1 | 1 | 3 | – | |||
| United Umma Party | 49,923 | 1.00 | 1 | 63,770 | 1.23 | 2 | 1 | 4 | – | |||
| Umma Reform and Development Party | 35,309 | 0.71 | 1 | 45,199 | 0.87 | 1 | 3 | 5 | – | |||
| National Umma Party | 30,966 | 0.62 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | ||||||
| Federal Truth Party | 30,254 | 0.61 | 1 | 33,046 | 0.64 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | |||
| National Bond Party | 30,079 | 0.60 | 1 | 43,199 | 0.83 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | |||
| National Freedom and Justice Party | 29,642 | 0.59 | 1 | 3 | 4 | – | ||||||
| Constitution Party | 27,466 | 0.55 | 0 | 39,783 | 0.77 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | |||
| Movement for Justice and Equality | 26,723 | 0.53 | 0 | 18,493 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| National Reform Party | 25,990 | 0.52 | 0 | 30,107 | 0.58 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | |||
| Popular Forces for Rights and Democracy Movement | 23,089 | 0.46 | 0 | 27,260 | 0.53 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | |||
| Justice Party | 18,196 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| National Movement for Peace and Development | 17,231 | 0.34 | 0 | 14,732 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union | 16,508 | 0.33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| People's Movement Party | 14,018 | 0.28 | 0 | 15,595 | 0.30 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | |||
| Sudanese National Front Party | 12,740 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| Sudanese Socialist Union Party al-Maywa | 8,686 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| Centre Party for Justice and Development | 1 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| General Federation of North and South Funj | 1 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| Ana al-Sudan | 1 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| Black Free | 1 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| Independents | 19 | 19 | +16 | |||||||||
| Total | 4,999,532 | 100.00 | 85 | 5,184,119 | 100.00 | 128 | 213 | 426 | –24 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 13,126,989 | – | 13,126,989 | – | 13,126,989 | – | ||||||
| Source: NEC | ||||||||||||
Parliament building
The seat of the National Legislature is in Omdurman, immediately north-west of the country's capital Khartoum. The building was designed in the style of brutalist architecture by the Romanian architect Cezar Lăzărescu and completed in 1978.[4] It is located on the banks of the White Nile at the confluence with the Blue Nile near the old Omdurman bridge.
