Parliamentary elections in Lebanon in 1992

The 1992 parliamentary elections in Lebanon were held between August 23 and October 11. It was the first general election in 20 years (the last were in 1972 ), making it the first election since the civil war . Independent candidates won the majority of the seats, although most of them were viewed as members of various blocs. The turnout was just 30.3%.

Results

Political party	proportion of	Seats	+/-
Hezbollah	6.25%	8th	New
Syrian Social Nationalist Party	4.69%	6th	+6
Progressive Socialist Party	3.91%	5	0
Amal movement	3.91%	5	New
Islamic group	2.34%	3	New
Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party	1.56%	2	+1
al-Habash	0.78%	1	New
Armenian Revolutionary Federation	0.78%	1	0
Social Democratic Hntchak Party	0.78%	1	+1
Nasserist people's organization	0.78%	1	New
Arab Democratic Party	0.78%	1	New
Promise party	0.78%	1	New
Toilers League	0.78%	1	New
Democratic-Liberal Party	0%	0	0
Independent	71.86%	92	+29
total	100	128	+29
Source: Nohlen et al.

Of the 92 independent MPs, 68 were considered to be members of different blocs:

• 12 in the Birri block (plus the five members of the Amal movement )
• 11 in the Hrawi block
• 10 in the Huss block
• 9 in the Karami block
• 6 in the Faranjiyyah Block
• 5 in the Jumblat Block (plus the five MPs from the Progressive Socialist Party)
• 4 in the Hezbollah block (plus the eight Hezbollah MPs )
• 4 in the Murr block
• 3 in the Hariri block
• 3 in the bloc of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (plus one MP from the party)
• 1 in the Hubayqa block (plud the Promise Party MP)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann: Elections in Asia: A data handbook. Volume I, 2001, ISBN 0-19-924958-X , p. 183.
2. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann: Elections in Asia: A data handbook. Volume I, 2001, ISBN 0-19-924958-X , p. 184.
3. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann: Elections in Asia: A data handbook. Volume I, 2001, ISBN 0-19-924958-X , p. 190.