2000 Lebanese general election
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All 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 40.52% (3.04pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Member State of the Arab League |
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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
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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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
- ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ^ Nohlen et al., p184
- ^ Nohlen et al., p190