Dr.Asaad Ghali Hamzah <br />Al-Mustqbal College University / Department of Law<br /><br />The Political participation and electoral systems are an important point in directing the voter and influencing on his electoral choices , on the other hand, elections, pluralism and formal partisanship may lead to overriding the traditional division of governance systems such as democracy in its various models versus totalitarian and authoritarian systems in its various forms and appearing forms that carry in it a new division, as (Authoritarianism competitive - Electoral authoritarianism ) <br /> The concept of political participation is one of the most important approaches which has a special position intertwined with many other concepts and democracy cannot be talked about without being exposed to political participation and electoral systems through the mechanisms that convert the votes of the voters to the corresponding parliamentary seats according to certain mathematical methods, bearing in mind that the electoral systems are not compatible with all political systems, and there is no electoral system that is suitable for every time and place where we find that there is an electoral system that succeeds in one country and stumbles in another, but the important thing is that the electoral system is closer to real representation for the voter.<br />The choice of the electoral system is one of the most important political decisions of any country, as the form of the electoral system may affect other aspects of the political system and may change from a democratic system to a dictatorial system, or vice versa.<br /><br />