General elections were held in Jordan on 11 April 1950.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] West Bank Palestinians were able to vote. The 40 representatives of the new Parliament were divided equally, with 20 each from the east and west sides of the Jordan River .[ 5]
As political parties were banned at the time, all candidates ran as independents, although some were affiliated with the Liberal Party , the Jordanian Communist Party , the Ba'ath Party the Arab Constitutional Party and the Umma Party .[ 6]
References
^ Zvi Elpeleg & Shmuel Himelstein (2012) The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement , Routledge, p123
^ Jacob Tovy (2014) Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Issue: The Formulation of a Policy, 1948-1956 , Routledge, p88
^ Alan George (2013) Jordan: Living in the Crossfire , Zed Books
^ "Jordan Names Parliament", Bakersfield (CA) Californian , 11 April 1950, p1
^ Ronen Yitzhak (2012) Abdullah Al-Tall, Arab Legion Officer: Arab Nationalism and Opposition to the Hashemite Regime , Apollo Books, p95
^ Dieter Nohlen , Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I , p150 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
