Talk:1958 Sudanese parliamentary election

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Southern Federal Party

See Southern Sudan Federal Party (SSFP). The sources in that article, which seem respectable, say the SSFP won 40 out of the 46 southern seats. They left parliament in June 1958. Is it possible that their seats were reallocated to Liberals and others? Aymatth2 (talk) 21:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I have no idea. I took the book out of the British library for a short time to get the results, so I can't check it again. EISA (which appears to be sourced from the Nohlen book) and the African Elections Database both give the same results. I do remember a few cases in the Nohlen series of books in which seats were reallocated after the elections (the books sometimes showed the number of seats held when Parliament reconvened rather than the number won in the election) or following by-elections, but I cannot say at all whether this was one of the cases. Sorry I can't be of more help, but if you can get hold of the Nohlen book somehow it may answer your question. Also, good work on creating those articles; it's just a shame sources on early African elections are so scarce (I would like to have done colonial-era elections, but cannot find any information for most countries). Number 5 7 21:33, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, no problem. I will dig around, but for now I will fix to say "according to this source" and "this source says". From a general feel of what was happening at the time it seems plausible that the Federalists would have done much better than the Liberals. Unfortunately the Torrington by-election, 1958 seems to have crowded out news of the Sudan election, so sources are scarce. Aymatth2 (talk) 23:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]