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	2	3	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			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
Invalid/blank votes		–	–	–
Total	1,112,776	100	128	0
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 Birri 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

↑ 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
↑ 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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