Lebanese general election, 2000

Lebanese general election, 2000
27 August and 3 September 2000
All 128 seats to the Parliament of Lebanon

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Nabih Berri Hassan Nasrallah Walid Jumblatt
Party Amal Movement Hezbollah Progressive Socialist Party
Leader's seat Zahrani None Chouf
Last election 8 seats, 6.25% 7 seats, 5.46% 5 seats, 3.90%
Seats won 10 10 6
Seat change Increase 2 Increase 3 Increase 1
Percentage 7.81% 7.81% 4.68%
Prime Minister before election

Selim Hoss
Independent

 Elected Prime Minister

Rafic Hariri
Independent

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General elections were held in Lebanon between 27 August and 3 September 2000.[1] Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although most of them were considered members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 40.5%.[2]

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Independents86–8
Hezbollah10+3
Amal Movement10+2
Progressive Socialist Party6+1
Syrian Social Nationalist Party4–1
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party3+1
Kataeb Party2+2
Lebanese National Bloc2New
Armenian Revolutionary Federation20
Social Democrat Hunchakian Party10
Armenian Democratic Liberal Party1+1
Popular Nasserist Organization10
Islamic Group0–1
Toilers League0–1
Promise Party0–1
Arab Democratic Party0–1
Al-Ahbash0–1
Invalid/blank votes–––
Total1,112,7761001280
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

  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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