Lebanese general election, 2000

Lebanese general election, 2000
Lebanon
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 +/–
Independents 86–8
Amal Movement 10+2
Hezbollah 10+3
Progressive Socialist Party 6+1
Syrian Social Nationalist Party 4–1
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party 3+1
Kataeb Party 2+2
Lebanese National Bloc 2New
Armenian Revolutionary Federation 20
Social Democrat Hunchakian Party 10
Armenian Democratic Liberal Party 1+1
Popular Nasserist Organization 10
Islamic Group 0–1
Toilers League 0–1
Promise Party 0–1
Arab Democratic Party 0–1
Al-Ahbash 0–1
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]

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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