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The Present (5th) National Assembly:

The Elections for the Legislature were run in April 2010 within the context of the Democratic transformations process witnessed by Sudan.
The Elections were administrated by the National Elections Commission, an independent body composed of 9 persons known of being independent, competent and impartial
The Elections were conducted at all central and state levels including South Sudan in a mixed electoral system which comprises geographical constituencies and party lists where the candidate who obtains the majority of votes in individual nomination is be declared as winner as usual. The nomination lists were based on the portion of each contesting party out of the total of the valid votes in a certain state 5% ratio or the total votes was required for a list to enter the contest for the allocated seats.
The Elections’ Act designated 60% of the total seats for the geographical constituencies, 25% for women and 15%for the relative representation (party lists).
The Act also provided, for the first time in Sudan, positive discrimination in favour of women representation by allowing her a 25% ratio of the Parliament seats. The relative representation system was also introduced for the first time in Sudan to give greater opportunity to the largest number possible of parties to participate in the National and state Legislatures.
The present Assembly in composed of 450 elected members (though geographical and relative representation constituencies (woman/ National) which was adopted for the first time in Sudan woman are represented by a rate of 25% of the total number of  the parliament  members. The  Parliament is composed as follows:-

 

Following referendum on self-determination right of South Sudan, which opted to establish independent state “South Sudan” the Parliament Constituencies and relative representation lists which are connected to population distribution changed. Accordingly, the Parliament is set to compose of 354 seats as follows:

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