General elections were held in Jordan on 10 September 2024 to elect the 20th House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament.

Background On 25 July 2024, King Abdullah II of Jordan issued a royal decree to dissolve the House of Representatives. This dissolution preceded parliamentary elections set for September 10. The previous House of Representatives had been elected in November 2020.

These elections follow reforms that lowered the candidacy age from 30 to 25, and allow for a mixed proportional representation system for 138 seats. The new system allows two votes for each person, one vote for lists running in 18 local districts competing for 97 seats, and another for political parties for the national district for 41 seats, with 12 quotas for the Christian, Circassian, and Chechen minorities, as well as 18 seats for women. In upcoming elections, the percentage of seats for the national district is expected to increase until parliamentary majorities allow for formation of parliamentary governments.

On 13 June, the Islamic Action Front, the largest opposition party in Jordan, sent a letter to Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh, complaining of “electoral harassment” practiced against potential candidates and supporters by the kingdom’s security services.

Starting on 16 August, fake election posters went viral showing The Boys actor Antony Starr as Homelander, photo-shopped to look like a politician being plastered across the country to satirize candidate Khaled Musa Issa Abu Hassan's strategy of putting up an unseemly amount of posters to cover up most public spaces.

Just two days before the election, a Jordanian truck driver killed three Israeli guards at the country's border crossing with the West Bank, in the first such attack since the 1990s.

Electoral system The elections were the first to be held after a series of constitutional amendments and a new electoral and political parties laws that enabled new changes, recommended by the Royal Committee to Modernize the Political System. These new changes include lowering the candidacy age from 30 to 25, and allows for a mixed electoral system. The new proportional representation system allows two votes for each person, one vote for open lists running in 18 local districts, and another closed list for political parties for the national district. Out of the 138 seats of the House, 97 are for representatives from local district, and 41 for representatives from the national district, with 12 quotas for the Christian, Circassian, and Chechen minorities, as well as 18 seats for women's quota. Despite the quotas, these groups can also compete in non-quota seats. In upcoming elections, the percentage of seats for the national district is expected to increase until parliamentary majorities allow for formation of parliamentary governments.

Campaign 937 candidates on 172 lists ran for the 97 seats of the 18 local electoral districts, while 686 candidates on 25 lists belonging to 36 parties ran for the 41 seats of the national district. There were a total of 5,080,858 registered voters.

Polling opened at 07:00 and closed at 19:00.

Results

National district

Local districts

Results by districtDistrict Registered List Votes Seats General Circassian/Chechen Christian WomenAjloun 114,300 People of Resolve 15,307 1 1 1Sons of Ajloun Mountains 12,574 1 Union 9,873 Khait Al-Laban Ajloun 9,175 Loyalty 8,260 Right 2,840 Agreement 73 Invalid 3,846 Amman 1 617,759 Islamic Action Front 22,133 1 1Amman 17,346 1 The Covenant 17,310 1 Al-Aqsa Mosque 16,180 1 To Inspire 14,202 1 Union 8,916 The Future 7,381 Right 5,215 Determination 5,132 Renewal 1,474 Invalid 5,230 Amman 2 852,487 Islamic Action Front 38,361 2 1 1Growth 31,998 1 Union 20,745 1 The Brave Ones 18,837 1 Right 15,528 1 Elite 12,789 Dignity 6,500 Unity (Wihda) 2,263 Growth and Work Alliance 1,623 Invalid 7,309 Amman 3 484,055 The Future 26,489 1 Islamic Action Front 22,486 1 1 1Packages 9,418 1 The Brave Ones 9,395 1 Union 8,071 Accord 6,777 Change 6,643 The Banner 3,425 Accomplishment 3,405 Amman People 1,691 Gaza Hashem 1,214 Message 452 Palm Tree 51 Invalid 5,906 Aqaba 80,760 Islamic Action Front 8,236 1 1Covenant 8,229 1 Homeland 5,583 Jordan Gap 4,485 Aqaba 2,194 Accord 657 Sincerity 417 Youth of the Country 65 Invalid 879 Balqa 352,948 Covenant 24,566 1 Justice 24,357 1 1 1Blessing 18,483 1 Loyalty 17,460 1 List of Goodness 14,994 1 Sons of Balqa 12,966 1 Islamic Action Front 10,416 Change 7,729 The Sons of the General 3,613 Peace 2,026 Nashmiyat Balqa 819 Invalid 6,410 Irbid 1 569,974 Justice 22,387 1 1The Audience 21,213 1 Islamic Action Front 19,048 1 The Covenant 18,645 1 The Future 16,972 1 Cooperation 16,147 1 Dignity 14,520 1 Loyalty 13,935 Homeland 11,635 The Brave Ones 11,448 The Poor 10,546 Accord 9,664 Invalid 10,854 Irbid 2 324,321 Knights 20,347 1 1The People 19,168 1 The Covenant 18,709 1 1 Justice 16,786 1 Loyalty 14,745 1 Progress 14,270 Change 10,444 The Brave Ones 10,090 Youth 4,005 Hope List 1,027 Gate of ar-Rayyan 972 Invalid 8,355 Jerash 129,236 People of Determination 12,425 1 Jerash 11,372 1 The Country Deserves It 11,035 1 1Jerash Will 7,580 Loyalty 6,935 The Brave Ones 6,864 Islamic Action Front 5,369 Renaissance 3,825 Message 2,580 Invalid 3,401 Karak 189,268 The Light 16,785 1 Loyalty 16,050 1 1 1Message 13,750 1 Good 13,365 1 Right Bloc 8,955 1 Karak 8,266 1 Victory 7,907 Islamic Action Front 7,449 Dawn of the Jordan Valley 5,272 Palm Block 4,572 Al-Mizan 2,934 The Coffee Pot 2,380 Justice 2,261 The Job 1,946 Science and Knowledge 110 Dignity 87 The Shemagh 31 Invalid 4,717 Ma'an 57,414 Union 6,263 1 1Right 6,018 1 Accord 5,999 1 Covenant 5,920 Al-Shoubak 4,715 Panic 4,071 Invalid 1,589 Madaba 126,381 Madaba 10,080 1 Loyalty 9,271 1 1 1Covenant 7,546 Thiban 6,693 Dignity 5,841 National Unity 5,501 Islamic Action Front 5,240 Determination 4,625 Jerusalem 1,011 Al-Mizan 381 Invalid 3,775 Mafraq 110,932 Right Block 17,465 1 1Knights of Mafraq 11,399 1 Mafraq Brings Us Together 11,262 1 The Flag 10,817 Wisdom 3,820 Sons of Ploughmen 105 Invalid 2,940 Tafilah 61,996 We are Proud of the country 5,124 1 1Rain 4,387 1 The Proud Tafilah 3,799 1 Dawn 3,456 Union 3,367 Dignity 3,280 The Banner 2,922 The Promise 2,790 Free Sound 2,122 Certainty 481 The Determination 89 Invalid 2,128 Zarqa 727,569 Dignity 41,335 2 1 1Islamic Action Front 20,169 1 1 Determination 17,357 1 Agreement 15,204 1 Progress 14,142 1 National Islamic Party 13,206 1 Union 12,195 Sons of the Country 11,071 Sons of Zarqa 3,675 Workers 1,612 National Loyalty 276 Invalid 7,205 Bedouins of the North 119,184 The Candle 12,599 1 Thunder of the North 12,545 1 1Chivalry 11,035 Loyalty and Covenant 8,722 Accord 7,768 Dignity 3,065 Badia Union 2,223 Invalid 2,376 Bedouins of the Middle 76,322 Blessing 6,669 1 Determination 6,559 1 1Accord 6,097 Dignity 6,073 Honesty 4,037 The Future 3,456 Renaissance 2,463 One Body 1,385 Justice 520 Invalid 1,546 Bedouins of the South 85,952 The Brave Ones 15,788 1 1National Charter Party 13,414 1 Loyalty 11,885 The Future 9,879 List of Goodness 951 Invalid 980

Aftermath The Islamic Action Front saw significant gains, winning 31 seats; however, this was not enough to win a majority outright. This was the strongest showing for Islamist parties in parliamentary elections since 1989. Etaf Roudan, a Jordanian journalist, stated that the IAF's political position on the Palestinian issue had pushed leftists, traditional nationalists, and tribal forces to vote for the Islamic party.

This stance was reflected by Murad al-Adaileh, general secretary of the IAF, who said that the election results showed "The next House of Representatives must be robust in confronting the extreme Israeli right, which may, in the future, align with the extreme American right if Trump wins the US elections." France 24 reported that the "nearly half a million votes" the IAF won was "unprecedented in their history in Jordan." Adaileh also claimed that the election results were a "popular referendum" for Jordan to scrap the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, and to back Hamas.

On 15 September, Bisher Khasawneh resigned as prime minister. In response, King Abdullah nominated his chief of staff, Jafar Hassan, to form a new government.

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