Parliamentary elections in Lebanon 1996

Parliamentary elections were held in Lebanon between August 18 and September 15, 1996. Independent candidates won the majority of the seats, although most of them were considered members of different blocs. The turnout was 43.3 percent. There were 1,113,130 voters.

Results

Political party	proportion of	Seats	+/-
Amal movement	6.25%	8th	+3
Hezbollah	5.47%	7th	−1
Progressive Socialist Party	3.91%	5	0
Syrian Social Nationalist Party	3.91%	5	−1
Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party	1.56%	2	0
Armenian Revolutionary Federation	0.78%	1	0
Social Democratic Hntchak Party	0.78%	1	0
Democratic-Liberal Party	0.78%	1	+1
Islamic group	0.78%	1	−2
Toilers League	0.78%	1	0
Nasserist people's organization	0.78%	1	0
Promise party	0.78%	1	0
al-Habash	0%	0	−1
Kataeb party	0%	0	New
Arab Democratic Party	0%	0	−1
Independent	73.44%	94	+2
total	100%	128	+29
Source: Nohlen et al.

Of the 94 independent MPs, 66 were considered to be members of different blocs:

• 25 in the Hariri block
• 13 in the Birri block (plus the eight members of the Amal movement )
• 5 in the Hrawi block
• 5 in the Murr block
• 4 in the Jumblat block (plus the five MPs of the Progressive Socialist Party )
• 4 in the Huss block
• 4 in Faranjiyyah Block
• 3 in the bloc of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (plus one MP from the party)
• 2 in the Hezbollah block (plus the seven Hezbollah MPs)
• 1 in the Hubayqa Block (plus the Promise Party MP)

Individual evidence

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