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2000 Sudanese general election
	Presidential election
President before election; Omar al-Bashir; National Congress	Elected President ; Omar al-Bashir; National Congress
	National Assembly election

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 Popular National Congress, 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 Gaafar 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 Organisation 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


Candidate		Party	%
	Omar al-Bashir	National Congress	86.5
	Gaafar Nimeiry	Alliance of the Peoples' Working Forces	9.6
	Malik Hussain	Independent	1.6
	Al-Samuel Hussein Osman Mansour	Liberal Democrats	1.3
	Mahmoud Ahmed Juna	Independent	1.0
Total

Source: African Elections Database

National Assembly


Party		Seats
	National Congress	355
	Independents	5
Total		360

Source: IPU

References

^ Sudan: Elections in 2000 Inter-Parliamentary Union
^ ^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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-13. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)