Main Electoral Systems, Electoral System in Albania and the Problems of Its Implementation

Abstract

Electoral systems are considered all over the world as legal mechanisms which are used to establish different representative organs. Elections and votes on various issues of the community are used since antiquity, but when we talk today about the electoral system, we refer to the modern period, a time when the political parties were created in the contemporary sense of the word. Electoral systems adopted by different states at different times, according to the researchers of electoral systems, are estimated to be in hundreds, but in this article deals with the main electoral systems, their advantages and disadvantages, what systems have been used and implemented in Albania after the restoration of political pluralism, which are the problems revealed in its various electoral processes. In addition, this article mentions several experiences of different countries, where their elections and results are less contested.