1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 27 February and 8 March 1958 to elect members of the Senate and the House of Representatives.^[1] The first elections held since independence in 1956, they had originally been scheduled for August 1957 but were postponed by the Sovereignty Council, which had been in office since December 1955, on the grounds that flooding would disrupt voting.^[2] The elections resulted in a victory for the Umma Party, led by Prime Minister Abdallah Khalil, which won 63 of the 173 seats in the House of Representatives.

The Southern Sudan Federal Party competed in the election and won 40 of the 46 seats allocated to the southern provinces. Its platform posed a serious challenge to the authorities.^[3] However, when it became clear that the party’s demands for a federal structure would be disregarded by the Constituent Assembly, the southern members of parliament withdrew from Parliament on 16 June 1958.^[4]