The impact of electoral systems on candidacy and representation of political parties from 1989 - 2016

Abstract

The study aims to identify the impact of the electoral systems on political parties’ nomination for election and their rate of representation in the parliament in Jordan during the period from 1989 to 2016, through answering the following questions: - What is the effect of the electoral systems on the announced nomination of political parties’ candidates in the parliamentary elections? - What is the effect of the electoral systems on the rate of representation of the political parties in the Parliament? System analysis method was used to analyze the relationship between variables of the study, in which the three electoral systems: the majority, the proportional and the mixed systems implemented in Jordan represented the independent variable, and the rate of announced political parties’ candidates’ nomination for elections and the rate of the political parties’ representation in the parliament were the dependent variable. The study revealed a set of results, the most important of which were that; there was a positive relationship between the mixed electoral system and raising the rate of the announced political parties’ candidates and the rate of the political parties’ representation in the Parliament.