1996 Lebanese general election
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]
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Results
Electoral districts per the 1996 vote law
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| Amal Movement | 8 | +3 | |||
| Hezbollah | 7 | –1 | |||
| Syrian Social Nationalist Party | 5 | –1 | |||
| Progressive Socialist Party | 5 | 0 | |||
| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | 2 | 0 | |||
| Islamic Group | 1 | –2 | |||
| Toilers League | 1 | 0 | |||
| Popular Nasserist Organization | 1 | 0 | |||
| Promise Party | 1 | 0 | |||
| Armenian Revolutionary Federation | 1 | 0 | |||
| Social Democrat Hunchakian Party | 1 | 0 | |||
| Armenian Democratic Liberal Party | 1 | +1 | |||
| Arab Democratic Party | 0 | –1 | |||
| Al-Ahbash | 0 | –1 | |||
| Kataeb Party | 0 | New | |||
| Independents | 94 | +2 | |||
| Total | 128 | +29 | |||
| Total votes | 1,113,130 | – | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,571,476 | 43.29 | |||
| 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
- Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p183 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- Nohlen et al., p184
- Nohlen et al., p190
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