Electoral law quota details
Sudan
Answer
Yes
Source
Comment
According to Article 29 (2:b) of the 2008 National Election Act, ‘twenty five per cent of the women members shall be elected on the basis of proportional representation at the state level from separate and closed party lists’. Voters vote for only one women's list of their choice. Only parties whose women's lists clear the 4% threshold qualify to access seats reserved for women. Seats are allocated according to proportional representation among these parties. Furthermore, ‘the seats designated to women's lists shall be won by the candidates of those lists in the order their names appear in the list concerned from top to bottom’ (National Election Act 2008, Article 33 (7)).
