General elections were held in Jordan on 11 April 1950.Zvi Elpeleg & Shmuel Himelstein (2012) The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement, Routledge, p123Jacob Tovy (2014) Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Issue: The Formulation of a Policy, 1948-1956, Routledge, p88Alan George (2013) Jordan: Living in the Crossfire, Zed Books"Jordan Names Parliament", Bakersfield (CA) Californian, 11 April 1950, p1 For the first time, 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.Ronen Yitzhak (2012) Abdullah Al-Tall, Arab Legion Officer: Arab Nationalism and Opposition to the Hashemite Regime, Apollo Books, p95
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.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p150
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