1996 Lebanese general election

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1996 Lebanese general election
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All 128 seats to the Parliament of Lebanon
Turnout43.3% Increase 13%
  First party Second party
  Rafic Hariri in 2001.jpg Nabih Berri.jpg
Leader Rafic Hariri Nabih Berri
Party Hariri Bloc Amal Movement
Leader's seat Beirut Zahrani
Seats won 25 8
Percentage 19.53% 6.25%
  Third party Fourth party
  Hassan Nasrallah meets Khamenei in visit to Iran (3 8405110291 L600).jpg Jumblatt.jpg
Leader Hassan Nasrallah Walid Jumblatt
Party Hezbollah PSP
Leader's seat None Chouf
Seats won 7 5
Percentage 5.46% 3.90%
Prime Minister before election

Selim Hoss
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Rafic Hariri
Independent

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General elections were held in Lebanon between 18 August and 15 September 1996.[1] Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although most of them were considered members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 43.3%.[2]

Results[]

Electoral districts per the 1996 vote law
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Amal Movement8+3
Hezbollah7–1
Syrian Social Nationalist Party5–1
Progressive Socialist Party50
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party20
Islamic Group1–2
Toilers League10
Popular Nasserist Organization10
Promise Party10
Armenian Revolutionary Federation10
Social Democrat Hunchakian Party10
Armenian Democratic Liberal Party1+1
Arab Democratic Party0–1
Al-Ahbash0–1
Kataeb Party0New
Independents94+2
Total128+29
Total votes1,113,130–
Registered voters/turnout2,571,47643.29
Source: Nohlen et al.

Of the 94 independent MPs, 66 were considered to be members of various blocs:[3]

  • 25 in the Hariri bloc
  • 13 in the Berri bloc (plus the eight Amal Movement MPs)
  • 5 in the Hrawi bloc
  • 5 in the Murr bloc
  • 4 in the Jumblatt bloc (plus the five Progressive Socialist Party MPs)
  • 4 in the Salim el-Hoss bloc
  • 4 in the Frangieh bloc
  • 3 in the Armenian Revolutionary Federation bloc (plus one MP from the party)
  • 2 in the Hezbollah bloc (plus the seven Hezbollah MPs)
  • 1 in the Hobeika bloc (plus the Promise Party MP)

References[]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p183 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  2. ^ Nohlen et al., p184
  3. ^ Nohlen et al., p190
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