Palestinian Voting in The

THIS PAPER ANALYSES the effect of non-sovereignty on the electoral behavior of the West Bank Arab community. Since the annexation of the West Bank by Jordan in 19501 the Palestinians there became the only Palestinian population in the Arab world to enjoy citizenship and the right of political participation through an electoral process.2 They differed from other concentrations of Palestinians in other respects as well. The West Bank Arab community was the largest concentration of Palestinians anywhere, and the only one not in minority, being twice as large as Jordanrs original population. Half of the 900,000 Palestinians