2000 Lebanese general election

2000 Lebanese general election

27 August and 3 September 2000
All 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon
Turnout	40.52% (3.04pp)
First party Second party   Leader Rafic Hariri Nabih Berri Party Hariri Bloc Amal Movement Leader's seat Beirut Zahrani Last election 25 seats 8 seats Seats won 26 10 Seat change 1 2   Third party Fourth party   Leader Hassan Nasrallah Walid Jumblatt Party Hezbollah PSP Leader's seat None Chouf Last election 7 seats 5 seats Seats won 10 6 Seat change 3 1
Prime Minister before election Selim Hoss Independent Elected Prime Minister Rafic Hariri Independent

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	+/–
	Hezbollah			10	+3
	Amal Movement			10	+2
	Progressive Socialist Party			6	+1
	Syrian Social Nationalist Party			4	–1
	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party			3	+1
	Kataeb Party			2	+2
	National Bloc			2	New
	Armenian Revolutionary Federation			2	0
	Social Democrat Hunchakian Party			1	0
	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

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. Nohlen et al., p190