Predicting the rank of a candidate on a party list - Help re

[Madelaine]

Dear all,

My name is Madelaine, I am doing research on the party list rankings for open list elections.
Using a range of explanatory variable (age, education, etc.) I try to estimate the rank a candidate has on a party list.

As my dependent variabele (rank) is ordinal, I wanted to used a ordered logistic panel data regression. However, since the rank can take up values ranging from 1 to 80, I do not know how to interpret the odd ratio's which come out of the regression. I am also in doubt wheter the ordered logistic regression model is the correct model to use when the dependent rank variable has 80 categories.

I would very much appreciate it if someone could help me out on this,

Many thanks in advance, and kind regards,

Madelaine.