The Sudanese Socialist Union ( abbr. SSU; ar, الاتحاد الاشتراكي السوداني ''Al-Ittihad Al-Ishtiraki Al-Sudaniy'') was a

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Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

. The SSU was the country's sole legal party from 1971 until 1985, when the

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Gaafar Nimeiry Jaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry (otherwise spelled in English as Jaafar Nimeiry, Gaafar Nimeiry or Ja'far Muhammad Numayri; ar, جعفر محمد النميري; 26 April 192830 May 2009) was a Sudanese politician who served as the president of Sud ...

was overthrown in a

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. Today the Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union, the successor party to the SSU, exists as a registered political party in

. Until 2018, it was led by Professor Dr.

Fatima Abdel Mahmoud Fatima Abdel Mahmoud (27 July 1944, Omdurman, Sudan – 22 July 2018, London, England) was a Sudanese politician, leader of the Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union. In 1973 she was one of the first women to hold political office in Sudan, and she ...

, who was Sudan's first female Minister during the Presidency of Gaafar Nimeiry as well as a former member of the National Congress Party. Professor Dr. Fatima Abdel Mahmoud was the first woman to contest the Presidency of Sudan in the 2010 general election.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

National Assembly elections

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Electoral history

Presidential elections

National Assembly elections

See also

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