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[Star Wars] How did Jar Jar Binks become a Senator?

Especially in The Clone Wars, we see how others know Jar Jar to be silly and awkward. How did he come to a position of power?

Edit: Representative, not Senator. I should have known that one.
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So first off, Jar Jar wasn't a Senator. A planet only gets one senator, and so Padme was Naboo's senator.

However when a planet has an alien minority of significant size, that species is allowed to have a representative in the Senate.

The Gungans are isolationist, so they really don't like dealing with humans. They also don't like dealing with Jar Jar. Giving him a position far, far away from them killed two birds with one stone.