1968 Lebanese general election

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.

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Background

According to the 1960 constitution, the 99 seats were divided amongst ethnic and religious groups:[3]

Group Seats
Maronite Christians30
Sunni Muslims20
Shi'ite Muslims19
Greek Orthodox11
Druze6
Greek Catholics6
Armenian Orthodox4
Protestants1
Armenian Catholics1
Other1

Results
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Kataeb Party9+5
National Liberal Party8+1
Lebanese National Bloc6+3
Progressive Socialist Party5–1
Armenian Revolutionary Federation40
Party of the Constitutional Union3–2
Najjadeh Party1+1
National Action Movement1New
Independents62–8
Invalid/blank votes–––
Total614,280100990
Registered voters/turnout1,239,19949.6––
Source: Nohlen et al.
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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. Lebanon Inter-Parliamentary Union


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