Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR
• Head of Government: President Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR
• Assembly: Sudan has a bicameral National Legislature (Majlis Watani) consisting of the Council of States (Majlis Welayat) with 50 seats and the National Assembly (Majlis Watani) with 450 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system.
• In the Council of States (Majlis Welayat) 50 members are elected by indirect vote to serve 6-year terms. Two members are elected by the legislature of each of 25 states. In the National Assembly (Majlis Watani) 450 members are elected by popular vote to serve 6-year terms.
  • 60 percent of seats are elected by plurality vote in single-member districts. 15 percent of seats are elected under closed-list proportional representation. Multi-member constituencies correspond to states, and the threshold is 4 percent in each. Finally, 25 percent of seats are elected under closed-list proportional representation from lists that may contain only women. Again, the constituencies correspond to states, and the threshold is 4 percent in each. Following the secession of South Sudan, there are 354 members in the National Assembly.