Presidential elections in Sudan 2010

Official election winner: Omar al-Bashir

The 2010 national presidential elections in Sudan coincided with the national parliamentary elections , the elections for governors and parliaments of the states of Sudan, and the parliamentary and presidential elections in South Sudan from April 11th to 15th. The official winner of the election, which was marked by massive electoral fraud and faulty electoral lists, was the longtime President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir .

Prehistory: postponements and electoral rolls

The significance of the elections lies less in the foreseeable and doubted election results than in the fact that the government of all of Sudan and the government of the autonomous South Sudan agreed on an electoral procedure for the first time, thus ending the transition period after the end of the civil war in 2005 . The extensive agreement on a voter register also created the prerequisites for the independence referendum in South Sudan in 2011 . With the expected positive outcome of this referendum and thus the independence of South Sudan, the elections are likely to have been the last in the united Sudan.

The elections were originally supposed to take place in 2009 and have been postponed several times. A major hurdle to holding the elections was agreeing on a electoral roll that required a census . Originally planned for mid-2007, the census was postponed several times and finally carried out in April 2008. The number of inhabitants of the autonomous South Sudan was particularly controversial, which was finally given as around 8 million people out of a total population of 38 million. After initial results reportedly numbered only 3 million, the South Sudan Mission threatened to boycott the election if its population was set at less than 11-13 million. One of the reasons for the different numbers was the counting of the large number of internally displaced persons within Sudan.

Candidates

The amended electoral law, which North and South agreed on in 2008, provided for a minimum of 200 supporters for presidential candidates in 18 of the 25 states of Sudan. Candidates also had to be over 40 years old and have no criminal record .

In the end, 12 candidates were on the electoral list, of which the previous President of the entire state Omar al-Bashir and Yasir Arman for the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) , i.e. the ruling party of South Sudan, were the only promising candidates from the start. Originally, Salva Kiir Mayardit , the President of South Sudan, announced his candidacy for the SPML, but later withdrew it. A month before the election, Yasir Arman also withdrew his candidacy because the SPML believed that there were planned election fraud. The name of the SPML representative remained on the ballot papers due to the short term of the withdrawal and he received the second most votes with 21%.

Official results

Graphic representation of the election result

Candidate - party	be right	%
Omar al-Bashir - National Congress Party	6 901 694	68.24%
Yasir Arman - Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)	2,193,826	21.69%
Abdullah Deng Nhial - Popular Congress Party	396 139	3.92%
Hatim Al-Sir - Democratic Unionist Party	195.668	1.93%
Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi - Umma Party	96 868	0.96%
Kamil Idriss - Independent	77 132	0.76%
Mahmood Ahmed Jeha - Independent	71 708	0.71%
Mubarak al-Fadil - Umma Reform and Renewal Party	49 402	0.49%
Munir Sheikh El-din Jallab - New National Democratic Party	40 277	0.40%
Abdel-Aziz Khalid - Sudanese National Alliance	34 592	0.34%
Fatima Abdel-Mahmood - Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union	30 562	0.30%
Mohamed Ibrahim Nugud - Sudanese Communist Party	26 442	0.26%
Total votes	10 114 310	100.00%
Source: Sudan Tribune (English)

Web links

The choice in pictures (English)

Individual evidence

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↑ news.bbc.co.uk , accessed on January 2, 2011 (English).

↑ sudantribune.com , accessed on January 2, 2011 (English).