Pengaruh Sejarah Pemilihan Umum Terhadap Sistem Ketatanegaraan Dan Hubungannya Dengan Demokrasi

Abstract

The general election is one of the forms of implementing democracy. With general elections, people can directly participate in electing the leader of the country or the person who will sit in parliament. Speaking of general elections. This general election was followed by a political party. Or in other words, these election participants themselves are political parties. In Indonesia itself, general elections are held based on several principles. In its history, Indonesia has passed many elections. From the era of President Soekarno in the old order until now. Elections also have a relationship with state and democracy. The writing of this article, uses normative methods that use legislation to analyze elections, democracy, and constitutionality. The purpose of this research is to be held, so that we know about the electoral system in Indonesia. As the general election is a clear example of democracy. We are in compiling this research, using a normative juridical method approach and the data used is secondary data. The result that we got through this research is that Indonesia holds elections with an open proportional system with an election period of 5 years.