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
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| Independents | 94 | +2 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | – | – | – | |
| Total | 1,113,130 | 100 | 128 | +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
- ^ 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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