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2000 Lebanese general election
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General elections were held in Lebanon between 27 August and 3 September 2000[1] to elect the 128 members of the Parliament of Lebanon. Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although most of them were considered members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 40.5%.[2]
Results
[edit]| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hezbollah | 10 | +3 | |||
| Amal Movement | 10 | +2 | |||
| Progressive Socialist Party | 6 | +1 | |||
| Syrian Social Nationalist Party | 4 | –1 | |||
| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | 3 | +1 | |||
| Kataeb Party | 2 | +2 | |||
| National Bloc | 2 | New | |||
| Armenian Revolutionary Federation | 2 | 0 | |||
| Social Democrat Hunchakian Party | 1 | 0 | |||
| Armenian Democratic Liberal Party | 1 | +1 | |||
| Popular Nasserist Organization | 1 | 0 | |||
| Islamic Group | 0 | –1 | |||
| Toilers League | 0 | –1 | |||
| Promise Party | 0 | –1 | |||
| Arab Democratic Party | 0 | –1 | |||
| Al-Ahbash | 0 | –1 | |||
| Independents | 86 | –8 | |||
| Total | 128 | 0 | |||
| Total votes | 1,112,776 | – | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,746,528 | 40.52 | |||
| Source: Nohlen et al. | |||||
Of the 86 independent MPs, 48 were considered to be members of various blocs:[3]
- 26 in the Hariri bloc
- 6 in the Berri bloc (plus the ten Amal Movement MPs)
- 6 in the Jumblatt bloc (plus the six Progressive Socialist Party MPs)
- 5 in the Faranjiyyah bloc
- 3 in the Murr bloc
- 2 in the Hezbollah bloc (plus the ten Hezbollah MPs)
- 1 in the Kataeb bloc (plus the party's two MPs)
References
[edit]- ^ 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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