2000 Sudanese general election

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2000 Sudanese general election

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Candidate Omar al-Bashir Jaafar Nimeiry
Party National Congress
Percentage 86.5% 9.6%

President before election

Omar al-Bashir
National Congress

Elected President

Omar al-Bashir
National Congress

General elections were held in Sudan between 13 and 23 December 2000 to elect a President and National Assembly. The elections were boycotted by the main opposition parties including the Umma Party, the Democratic Unionist Party and the , which accused the government of vote rigging.[1][2] Only Omar al-Bashir’s National Congress Party and a small number of minority parties contested the elections.[2]

About 66% of Sudan’s eligible voters cast ballots.[2] Al-Bashir received 86.5% of the votes cast for a five-year presidential term.[2] Former President Jaafar Nimeiry, who had returned to Sudan from exile in Egypt, polled 9.6% of the vote, and three other candidates received less than 4 percent among them.[2] Voters also elected 275 members of the National Assembly to four-year terms.[2] The ruling NCP won all but 10 seats; no other party contested 112 of the seats.[2] Of the 90 specially selected positions, 35 went to women, 26 to university graduates, and 29 to trade union representatives.[2] Women constituted about 10 percent of the legislature’s membership.[2] An Organization of African Unity observer team concluded “that the overall exercise was an important step towards democratization and that it was conducted in a conducive atmosphere and in a satisfactory manner.”[2] Political parties that boycotted the elections had a decidedly different view.[2]

Results[]

Presidential election[]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Omar al-BashirNational Congress86.5
Jaafar NimeiryAlliance of the Peoples' Working Forces9.6
Malik HussainIndependent1.6
Al-Samuel Hussein Osman MansourLiberal Democrats1.3
Mahmoud Ahmed JunaIndependent1.0
Total
Source: African Elections Database

National Assembly[]

PartySeats
National Congress355
Independents5
Total360
Source: IPU

References[]

  1. ^ Sudan: Elections in 2000 Inter-Parliamentary Union
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Shinn, David H. (2015). "Elections" (PDF). In Berry, LaVerle (ed.). Sudan : a country study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 232–234. ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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