1957 Lebanese general election

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| Party | Leader  | Vote %  | Seats  | +/–

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National Bloc | Raymond Eddé |  | 5  | +2
Constitutional Union |  |  | 3  | 0
Kataeb | Pierre Gemayel |  | 2  | +1
PSP | Kamal Jumblatt |  | 2  | +1
ARF |  |  | 2  | +1
SSNP |  |  | 1  | New
Independents | –  |  | 51  | +16

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Prime Minister before | Prime Minister after

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Sami as-Solh
Unaffiliated | Sami as-Solh
Unaffiliated

General elections were held in Lebanon between 9 and 23 June 1957.[1] Independent candidates, nearly all pro-president, won the majority of seats. Voter turnout was 53.2%.[2]

With the support of Lebanese President Camille Chamoun CIA money was used to support selected candidates.[3]

## Results

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Party| Votes| %| Seats| +/–

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| National Bloc| | 5| +2
| Party of the Constitutional Union| | 3| 0
| Kataeb Party| | 2| +1
| Progressive Socialist Party| | 2| +1
| Armenian Revolutionary Federation| | 2| +1
| Syrian Social Nationalist Party| | 1| New
| Independents| | 51| +16
Total| | 66| +22
Total votes| 446,178| –|
Registered voters/turnout| 838,089| 53.24|
Source: Nohlen et al.

## Electoral districts

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### Bint Jbeil

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There was a reform of the seat distribution of parliamentary constituencies in 1957, but Bint Jbeil remained a single-member constituency. Instead the neighbouring electoral district of Nabatieh was awarded an additional Shia seat. Ahmad al-As'ad argued that this move had been done deliberately to curtail his political influence.[4] The Bint Jbeil seat was won by Ali Bazzi in the parliamentary election.[5]

## References

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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. ^ Marshall, Jonathan (2012). The Lebanese Connection Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic. Stanford University Press. p. 8.
4. ^ Gersten Professor of Political Science Jacob M Landau; Jacob M. Landau (19 December 2013). Middle Eastern Themes: Papers in History and Politics. Routledge. p. 260\. ISBN 978-1-135-15977-1.
5. ^ The International Who's who of the Arab World. International Who's Who of the Arab World Ltd. 1984. p. 104\. ISBN 9780950612218.

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