1968 Lebanese general election
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General elections were held in Lebanon between 24 March and 7 April 1968.[1] Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although many of them were considered to be members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 49.6%.[2] Politically the election was a confrontation between the mainly christian Tripartite Alliance and Chehabists candidates.
Background
[edit]According to the 1960 constitution, the 99 seats were divided amongst ethnic and religious groups:[3]
Group | Seats |
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Maronite Christians | 30 |
Sunni Muslims | 20 |
Shi'ite Muslims | 19 |
Greek Orthodox | 11 |
Druze | 6 |
Greek Catholics | 6 |
Armenian Orthodox | 4 |
Protestants | 1 |
Armenian Catholics | 1 |
Other | 1 |
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Results
[edit]Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Kataeb Party | 9 | +5 | |||
National Liberal Party | 8 | +1 | |||
National Bloc | 6 | +3 | |||
Progressive Socialist Party | 5 | –1 | |||
Armenian Revolutionary Federation | 4 | 0 | |||
Party of the Constitutional Union | 3 | –2 | |||
Najjadeh Party | 1 | +1 | |||
National Action Movement | 1 | New | |||
Independents | 62 | –8 | |||
Total | 99 | 0 | |||
Total votes | 614,280 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,239,199 | 49.57 | |||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
Electoral districts
[edit]Marjeyoun-Hasbaya
[edit]The district has 4 seats allocated to 2 Shiites, 1 Sunni and 1 Greek Orthodox Christian. There were eleven candidates in the fray, with ten candidates contesting on three different tickets. The eleventh candidate contested on his own.[4] The fight stood primarily between two tickets, each headed by a candidate from the al-As'ad family (a powerful Shiite family in the area).[5]
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
- ^ Lebanon Inter-Parliamentary Union
- ^ Zuwiyya, Jalal. The Parliamentary Election of Lebanon 1968. Leiden: Brill, 1972. pp. 41, 53-55
- ^ Zuwiyya, Jalal. The Parliamentary Election of Lebanon 1968. Leiden: Brill, 1972. pp. 41, 53-55