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Political participation and the way in which people are taking part in political decisions and social administration are among the issues that have been discussed throughout the history of political ideas since time immemorial even before the Christ. One of the striking examples of political participation of people of a society is taking part in various elections of a country that is one of the issues of political geography and electoral geography. Electoral geography is a term that was first coined by French scholar Zigfrid in 1913. Political participation usually refers to the domain of access of the citizens to their normal democratic rights in political activity to which they are legally eligible. Participation in election includes voluntary activities that are done by ordinary people in order to influence the public policy. This influence might be direct or based on one's personal choice of the one who decides the general policies. Voting in elections is part of this influence. Holding free and just election and the existence of political competition are among the aspects of democracy and legitimacy of political systems. This category is of higher importance in the societies, which are in transition. Election and electoral competition are one of the significant indices of democratic system at the heart of which two elements of continuation and change evolve. Thus, in the current research we will discuss the effective factors in the participation of people in election, aspects of political participation, behavioral patterns in election, effective factors in electoral behavior and elections in a number of developed countries and so on and so forth.