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]

1996 Lebanese general election

18 August and 15 September 1996

All 128 seats to the Parliament of Lebanon
Turnout43.3% 13%
  First party Second party
 
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
 
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

Results

Electoral districts per the 1996 vote law
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Independents94+2
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
Invalid/blank votes
Total1,113,130100128+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. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p190 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
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