2018 Lebanese general election

Lebanese general election, 2018

6 May 2018
All 128 seats to the Parliament of Lebanon 65 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	49.2%
Leader Saad Hariri Gebran Bassil Nabih Berri Party Future Movement Free Patriotic Movement Amal Movement Leader's seat Beirut II North III South II   File:Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.jpg Leader Hassan Nasrallah Samir Geagea Walid Jumblatt Party Hezbollah Lebanese Forces Progressive Socialist Party Leader's seat None None None
Incumbent Prime Minister Saad Hariri Future Movement

General elections were held in Lebanon on 6 May 2018. They were originally scheduled for 2013; however, due to the repeated failure of Parliament to elect a new President, two thirds of the members the body extended its own term, first until 2017 and then once more until 2018.

Background

Further information: Lebanese government of November 2009, Lebanese government of June 2011, Lebanese government of April 2013, and Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon

Following the last election, it took several months to form a new government. Saad Hariri eventually became prime minister in a government formed on March 14. About a year later, Walid Jumblatt's PSP broke away from the March 14 alliance and withdrew its ministers. Jumblatt then traveled to Syria for the first time in decades and met President Bashar al-Assad. After the government fell over the issue of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a new government was formed by Najib Mikati that consisted of March 8 alliance parties, as well as the PSP.

Over the course of the Syrian civil war, fissures started to grow in Lebanon as March 14 parties supported the opposition in Syria while March 8 parties were ostensibly supportive of the Syrian government, particularly in the early stages. The March 8 parties therefore faced accusation from the opposition and its affiliated media of kowtowing to the Syrian government. As the conflict started to spill over into Lebanon, both via refugees and Lebanon's own diverse demographics that are broadly reflective of Syria's own diversity, tensions started to grow. A spate of sectarian kidnappings and threats followed, some of which turned fatal.

On 22 March 2013, Mikati resigned citing a negative climate over the appointment of a committee to oversee the election and the extension of Internal Security Forces (ISF) head Ashraf Rifi, who was expected to retire in April. On 5 April, a new March 14-backed consensus candidate for prime minister was announced, Tammam Salam.

Postponement

A new President should have been elected by Parliament before the legislative elections took place. However, there was a deadlock which resulted in fourteen fruitless attempts at choosing a Head of State. Therefore, Parliament decided on November 5, 2014 to extend its term by 2 years and 7 months. The deadlock was perceived to arise from the ongoing situation in the Syrian Civil War, where both sides have major Lebanese parties as allies, as well as the intricacies of Lebanon's confessional political system.

Electoral system

Electoral districts as per the 2017 vote law

In June 2017 a new electoral law was passed, replacing the previous system under which the 128 members of parliament were elected from 26 multi-member constituencies in which voters cast as many votes as there were seats in their constituency and the candidates with the highest number of votes within each religious community were elected. The new electoral law instituted proportional representation in 15 multi-member constituencies. However, the 7 out of the 15 of the electoral districts are divided into 2 or more 'minor districts' (largely corresponding to the smaller electoral districts from the old electoral law). Where applicable, preference vote is counted on the 'minor district' level.

Individuals could submit their candidacy for parliament until midnight of March 6, 2018. 976 candidates were registered, including 111 women. Candidates were obliged to join lists, which had to be finalized by March 26, 2018.

Electoral district under 2017 Election Law	Registered voters	Seats	SU	SH	DR	AL	MA	GO	GC	AO	AC	EV	MI
Beirut I (East Beirut)	134,355	8					1	1	1	3	1		1
Beirut II (West Beirut)	353,164	11	6	2	1			1				1
Bekaa I (Zahle)	174,944	7	1	1			1	1	2	1
Bekaa II (West Bekaa-Rachaya)	143,653	6	2	1	1		1	1
Bekaa III (Baalbek-Hermel)	345,404	10	2	6			1		1
Mount Lebanon I (Jbeil-Kesrwan)	176,818	8		1			7
Mount Lebanon II (Metn)	179,789	8					4	2	1	1
Mount Lebanon III (Baabda)	166,157	6		2	1		3
Mount Lebanon IV (Aley-Chouf)	329,595	13	2		4		5	1	1
North I (Akkar)	174,944	7	3			1	1	2
North II (Tripoli-Minnieh-Dennieh)	350,147	11	8			1	1	1
North III (Bcharre-Zghorta-Batroun-Koura)	249,454	10					7	3
South I (Saida-Jezzine)	122,382	5	2				2		1
South II (Zahrany-Tyre)	304,217	7		6					1
South III (Marjaayoun-Nabatieh-Hasbaya-Bint Jbeil)	460,491	11	1	8	1			1
Total	3,665,514	128	27	27	8	2	34	14	8	5	1	1	1
Source: Daily Star, Daily Star

Electoral district under 2008 Election Law	Electoral district under 2017 Election Law	Notes
Beirut I	Beirut I	The former Beirut II constituency was split between the former Beirut I and Beirut III (now renamed 'Beirut II') electoral districts. Medawar was moved into the new Beirut I electoral district, Port and Bachoura were moved into the new Beirut II electoral district. The 2 Armenian Orthodox seats from the old Beirut II electoral districts were allocated to the new Beirut I electoral district, the Sunni and Shia seats of the old Beirut II electoral district were allocated to the new Beirut II electoral district. Furthermore, the Minorities seat was moved from the old Beirut III electoral district to the new Beirut I electoral district.
Beirut II	abolished
Beirut III	Beirut II
Zahle	Bekaa I	no change
West Bekaa-Rachaya	Bekaa II	no change
Baalbek-Hermel	Bekaa III	no change
Jbeil	Mount Lebanon I	The old Jbeil and Kesrwan electoral districts now constitute 2 minor districts in the new Mount Lebanon I electoral district.
Kesrwan
Metn	Mount Lebanon II	no change
Baabda	Mount Lebanon III	no change
Aley	Mount Lebanon IV	The old Aley and Chouf electoral districts now constitute 2 minor districts in the new Mount Lebanon IV electoral district.
Chouf
Akkar	North I	no change
Minnieh-Dennieh	North II	The old Minnieh-Dennieh and Tripoli electoral districts have been merged, but subdivided into 3 minor districts: Tripoli, Minnieh and Dennieh.
Tripoli
Batroun	North III	The old Batroun, Bcharre, Koura and Zgharta electoral districts now constitute 4 minor districts in the new North III electoral district.
Bcharre
Koura
Zgharta
Jezzine	South I	The old Saida and Jezzine electoral districts now constitute 2 minor districts in the new South I electoral district.
Saida
Tyre	South II	The old Tyre and Zahrani electoral districts now constitute 2 minor districts in the new South II electoral district.
Zahrani
Bint Jbeil	South III	The old Bint Jbeil, Marjayoun-Hasbaya and Nabatieh electoral districts now constitute 3 minor districts in the new South III electoral district.
Marjayoun-Hasbaya
Nabatieh

Electorate

The Sunni electorate constitutes the majority of registered voters in three electoral districts (Beirut I, North I and North II); these three districts represent around two thirds of the total Sunni electorate. Likewise, the Shia electorate constitutes the majority of registered voters in Bekaa III, South II and South III, together accounting for 79% of the total Shia electorate.

63% of all Druze voters are registered in the Mount Lebanon IV electoral district, which elects four out of the eight Druze parliamentarians. 97% of the Druze voters are registered in districts from which Druze parliamentarians are elected. 96% of Alawite voters are registered in either the North I or North II electoral districts, which elects one Alawite parliamentarian each.

Maronite Christians constitute the majority of voters in Mount Lebanon I and North III; these two districts represent 42% of the Maronite electorate. North III also hosts the largest concentration of Greek Orthodox voters (20.7%), representing around a fifth of all Greek Orthodox voters throughout the country. According to 2017 data, the Greek Orthodox constitute 58% of the voters in the Koura minor district of North III. Bekaa I hosts the largest concentration of Greek Catholic voters, about a fifth of the nationwide Greek Catholic vote.

Beirut I hosts the largest concentrations of both Armenian Orthodox and Armenian Catholic voters, who elect 4 out of the 6 Armenian parliamentarians. The Minorities (Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Latin Catholic, Chaldeans, Assyrian Orthodox and Copts) seat is now in Beirut I, which has the largest gathering of Minorities voters.

Jewish voters are mainly found in Beirut II, where they constitute 1.31% of the electorate. However, in the 2009 election only five Jews cast their votes in the Beirut III electoral district.

Below is a summary of the demographics of the Lebanese electorate with data from 2017, divided by the qada administrative districts (or in the case of Beirut, the old 2008 vote law electoral districts).

Qada	Electoral district (new law)	Sunni			Shia			Druze			Alawite			Maronite			Greek Orthodox			Greek Catholic			Armenian Orthodox			Armenian Catholic			Syriac Orthodox		Syriac Catholic		Other Minorities			Evangelical			Jews		"Others"		Total
		No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	MPs	No.	%	No.	%	No.
Akkar	North I	186,541	67.30	3	3,289	1.19		16	0.01		13,711	4.95	1	30,617	11.05	1	37,541	13.54	2	3,414	1.23		174	0.06		67	0.02		151	0.05	52	0.02	264	0.10		809	0.29				520	0.19	277,166
Aley	Mount Lebanon IV	2,602	2.07		4,254	3.38		67,304	53.44	2	6	0.00		28,685	22.78	2	14,615	11.61	1	4,725	3.75		845	0.67		191	0.15		295	0.23	274	0.22	654	0.52		976	0.78		41	0.03	466	0.37	125,933
Baabda	Mount Lebanon III	10,867	6.61		40,470	24.60	2	28,359	17.24	1	19	0.01		56,467	34.33	3	12,704	7.72		8,753	5.32		1,600	0.97		761	0.46		727	0.44	636	0.39	1,740	1.06		697	0.42		2	0.00	691	0.42	164,493
Baalbek	Bekaa III	41,685	16.16	2	174,295	67.56	6	31	0.01		21	0.01		22,070	8.55	1	2,695	1.04		15,386	5.96	1	210	0.08		44	0.02		146	0.06	62	0.02	164	0.06		109	0.04				1,079	0.42	257,997
Batroun	North III	3,764	6.26		1,034	1.72		11	0.02		42	0.07		41,964	69.79	2	10,070	16.75		1,994	3.32		260	0.43		101	0.17		182	0.30	80	0.13	254	0.42		80	0.13		1	0.00	291	0.48	60,128
Bcharre	North III	109	0.22		27	0.05			0.00		6	0.01		46,512	94.64	2	1,380	2.81		554	1.13		81	0.16		26	0.05		87	0.18	34	0.07	107	0.22		55	0.11				170	0.35	49,148
Beirut I	Beirut I	7,214	7.78		2,401	2.59		316	0.34		32	0.03		17,541	18.92	1	22,014	23.74	1	11,776	12.70	1	14,610	15.76	3	3,991	4.30	1	1,445	1.56	3,441	3.71	4,766	5.14	1	2,186	2.36		49	0.05	939	1.01	92,721
Beirut II	Beirut I/Beirut II	34,982	32.19		31,037	28.56		149	0.14		42	0.04		4,009	3.69		2,697	2.48		2,272	2.09		24,544	22.58		3,151	2.90		333	0.31	871	0.80	1,726	1.59		1,970	1.81		397	0.37	506	0.47	108,686
Beirut III	Beirut II	180,600	64.49	6	44,722	15.97	2	4,839	1.73	1	87	0.03		7,114	2.54		14,953	5.34	1	5,702	2.04		4,613	1.65		1,008	0.36		4,667	1.67	1,423	0.51	2,118	0.76		2,720	0.97	1	4,056	1.45	1,428	0.51	280,050
Bint Jbeil	South III	2,024	1.38		127,571	87.09	3	16	0.01		10	0.01		12,596	8.60		314	0.21		3,128	2.14		70	0.05		45	0.03		53	0.04	16	0.01	111	0.08		76	0.05				444	0.30	146,474
Chouf	Mount Lebanon IV	58,223	29.14	2	5,984	2.99		62,238	31.14	2	10	0.01		54,401	27.22	3	3,179	1.59		12,666	6.34	1	246	0.12		155	0.08		308	0.15	175	0.09	487	0.24		761	0.38		12	0.01	993	0.50	199,838
Hasbaya	South III	23,414	49.34	2	1,381	2.91	2	15,342	32.33	1	2	0.00		1,966	4.14		3,698	7.79	1	1,040	2.19		32	0.07		23	0.05		31	0.07	12	0.03	47	0.10		297	0.63		1	0.00	165	0.35	47,451
Hermel	Bekaa III	1,678	3.27		48,820	95.08		5	0.01		91	0.18		609	1.19		14	0.03		19	0.04		4	0.01		2	0.00		1	0.00	7	0.01	8	0.02		5	0.01				82	0.16	51,345
Jbeil	Mount Lebanon I	2,770	3.39		16,529	20.25	1	11	0.01		8	0.01		54,718	67.03	2	3,708	4.54		1,541	1.89		999	1.22		124	0.15		207	0.25	115	0.14	339	0.42		166	0.20				399	0.49	81,634
Jezzine	South I	1,443	2.44		12,413	20.96		578	0.98		6	0.01		33,443	56.47		1,487	2.51		8,597	14.52	1	145	0.24		89	0.15		208	0.35	116	0.20	288	0.49		165	0.28		1	0.00	243	0.41	59,222
Kesrwan	Mount Lebanon I	557	0.59		1,717	1.83		29	0.03		8	0.01		77,487	82.70	5	3,547	3.79		4,763	5.08		1,581	1.69		779	0.83		726	0.77	573	0.61	1,066	1.14		263	0.28		3	0.00	595	0.64	93,694
Koura	North III	8,626	14.32		1,202	1.99		11	0.02		478	0.79		12,991	21.56		35,335	58.64	3	713	1.18		99	0.16		30	0.05		67	0.11	32	0.05	187	0.31		233	0.39				254	0.42	60,258
Marjayoun	South III	4,303	3.83		90,771	80.85		1,001	0.89		5	0.00		5,557	4.95		6,138	5.47		2,908	2.59		69	0.06		31	0.03		51	0.05	27	0.02	341	0.30		899	0.80		1	0.00	165	0.15	112,267
Metn	Mount Lebanon II	3,791	2.12		5,387	3.02		2,361	1.32		186	0.10		78,154	43.78	4	26,258	14.71	2	17,831	9.99	1	25,330	14.19	1	6,343	3.55		3,708	2.08	1,483	0.83	4,054	2.27		2,719	1.52		22	0.01	903	0.51	178,530
Minnieh-Dennieh	North II	101,971	85.93	3	312	0.26		3	0.00		74	0.06		7,449	6.28		8,171	6.89		176	0.15		16	0.01		6	0.01		17	0.01	7	0.01	37	0.03		42	0.04				390	0.33	118,671
Nabatieh	South III	3,142	2.17		135,407	93.59	3	18	0.01		21	0.01		4,031	2.79		239	0.17		1,074	0.74		15	0.01		18	0.01		20	0.01	10	0.01	95	0.07		52	0.04				539	0.37	144,681
Rachaya	Bekaa II	17,500	36.43	2	184	0.38	1	20,068	41.78	1				2,108	4.39	1	7,170	14.93	1	635	1.32		39	0.08		33	0.07		31	0.06	109	0.23	38	0.08		77	0.16				46	0.10	48,038
Saida	South I	50,900	82.53	2	6,672	10.82		38	0.06		4	0.01		1,323	2.15		303	0.49		1,578	2.56		215	0.35		31	0.05		25	0.04	22	0.04	139	0.23		155	0.25		1	0.00	270	0.44	61,676
Tripoli	North II	182,552	81.27	5	2,718	1.21		33	0.01		15,806	7.04	1	5,247	2.34	1	12,075	5.38	1	1,477	0.66		1,751	0.78		265	0.12		300	0.13	215	0.10	540	0.24		583	0.26		38	0.02	1,019	0.45	224,619
Tyre	South II	16,194	8.67		157,863	84.53	4	19	0.01		14	0.01		2,880	1.54		807	0.43		6,260	3.35		1,072	0.57		149	0.08		57	0.03	17	0.01	391	0.21		475	0.25				564	0.30	186,762
West Bekaa	Bekaa II	50,547	54.40		20,505	22.07		466	0.50					8,635	9.29		2,709	2.92		9,024	9.71		73	0.08		27	0.03		79	0.09	41	0.04	146	0.16		347	0.37		1	0.00	312	0.34	92,912
Zahle	Bekaa I	48,610	28.17	1	27,665	16.03	1	915	0.53		16	0.01		28,509	16.52	1	16,768	9.72	1	30,043	17.41	2	8,683	5.03	1	1,803	1.04		5,253	3.04	1,071	0.62	1,151	0.67		1,403	0.81		74	0.04	591	0.34	172,555
Zahrani	South II	4,538	4.08		80,990	72.82	2	49	0.04		5	0.00		11,607	10.44		767	0.69		11,963	10.76	1	100	0.09		49	0.04		88	0.08	38	0.03	167	0.15		482	0.43				374	0.34	111,217
Zgharta	North III	9,976	12.88		151	0.19		11	0.01		76	0.10		61,121	78.92	3	4,378	5.65		868	1.12		135	0.17		167	0.22		82	0.11	45	0.06	172	0.22		97	0.13				164	0.21	77,443
Total:		1,061,123	28.79	27	1,045,771	28.37	27	204,237	5.54	8	30,786	0.84	2	719,811	19.53	34	255,734	6.94	14	170,880	4.64	8	87,611	2.38	5	19,509	0.53	1	19,345	0.52	11,004	0.30	21,597	0.59	1	18,899	0.51	1	4,700	0.13	14,602	0.40	3,685,609
Source: Lebanon Files

Parties

Amal

Amal Movement flag

Amal leader and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri held a press conference at his Ain al-Tineh residence on February 19, 2018, to present the electoral platform and the 16 candidates of the Amal Movement. Berri highlighted the ongoing oil exploration project, calling for setting up a national oil company and a sovereign oil fund. He reaffirmed the Amal Movement commitment to 'People, Army, Resistance' policy, urging steadfastness towards Israel.

The Amal-Hezbollah bloc fielded joint 'Hope and Loyalty' lists in the Bekaa III, South II and South III electoral districts. However, compared to the previous election, the Amal-Hezbollah bloc lacked an alliance with Michel Aoun and his Free Patriotic Movement. But whilst FPM and Amal had parted ways nationally, they still managed to form alliances in Mount Lebanon III and Beirut II. In Mount Lebanon III (Baabda) the joint list carried the label 'National Reconciliation'. In Beirut II a joint list of Amal, Hezbollah, FPM and Al-Ahbash was formed, under the label 'Unity of Beirut'. And whilst Berri and the Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil had a public fall-out in early 2018, which sparked street riots, Berri's post as Speaker of the Parliament appeared to be fairly secured during the electoral campaign. Both the Hariri and Jumblatt camps affirmed their support to Berri's speakership in the run-up to the polls. According to political analysts, the Amal-Hezbollah victory seemed probably in Berri's home constituency, South II, as opposition forces had failed to produce a strong list to challenge him in his home turf.

In Bekaa II, Amal backed the 'Best Tomorrow' list.

Free Patriotic Movement

The electoral slogan of the party was 'A Strong [FPM] for a Strong Lebanon'. The party formed a number of local coalitions with a wide array alliance partners around the country. In North III FPM fielded the ”Strong North” list, headed by Gebran Bassil, in alliance with the Independence Movement and the Future Movement. In Mount Lebanon I (Jbeil-Kesrwan) FPM fielded the ”Strong Lebanon” list led by Chamel Roukoz. In Mount Lebanon II (Metn) FPM fielded the ”Strong Metn” list together with the SSNP and Tashnaq.

After the split between the Future Movement and the Lebanese Forces, a joint list for Beirut I of the Free Patriotic Movement, Tashnaq and the Hunchaks was conceived. supported by the Future Movement. In Bekaa I FPM, Future, Tashnaq and independents fielded a joint list. In North I (Akkar) and South II (Saida-Jezzine) FPM formed electoral alliances with al-Jamaat al-Islamiyya. In North II FPM fielded a list in alliance with Kamal Kheir.

Moreover, whilst FPM and the Amal-Hezbollah coalition parted ways nationally, joint lists were presented in Beirut II and in Mount Lebanon III (Baabda).

In Bekaa III (Baalbek-Hermel) FPM had hoped to form a list together with former speaker Hussein el-Husseini, but the project fell apart as el-Husseini withdrew from the electoral process. In the end, the Free Patriotic Movement candidates joined the list led by the former regional secretary of the Baath Party, Faiz Shukr.

In South III the Future Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Democratic Party supported a joint list called "The South is Worth It", with two FPM-supported independents.

Future Movement

At a ceremony in the Seaside Pavilion on March 11, 2018 the candidates and electoral platform of the Future Movement were presented. The party fielded 37 candidates, out of whom 21 were newcomers. The political newcomers included lawyer Roula Tabash Jaroudi in Beirut II and civil society activist Chadi Nacchabe in Tripoli.

The electoral slogan of the party was 'Blue Talisman' (kharzé zar’a). Commenting on the slogan party leader Saad Hariri stated that ”[the] Future Movement is a Talisman (blue bead) that you put in the ballot box, to protect the country. For that reason, our slogan is the protection of Lebanon and the symbol is the Talisman. You will draw the Talisman with your activity, with your energy, with your daily small and large contributions to the electoral machine, in your dialogue with people, in working for each candidate on the Future lists.”

The Future Movement and the Lebanese Forces negotiated for weeks on forming an electoral alliance, but the effort failed as relations between Future leader Saad Hariri and LF leader Samir Geagea deteriorated on issues relating to Hariri's visit to Saudi Arabia.

Hezbollah

Hezbollah parade

On February 19, 2018, Hezbollah general secretary Hassan Nasrallah presented the names of the 13 Hezbollah candidates. Amongst the candidates there were five new faces.

On March 22, 2018, Nasrallah issued a statement outlining the main priorities for the parliamentary bloc of the party, Loyalty to the Resistance, in the next parliament. He stated that rooting out corruption would be the foremost priority of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc. He described the relation with FPM as 'normal', whilst reaffirming the claim that opponents to the Amal-Hezbollah bloc in Bekaa III had supported 'terrorist groups'.

The electoral slogan of the party was 'We will construct and we will protect'.

Kataeb Party

The electoral slogan of the party was 'A Pulse for Change'.

Lebanese Forces

The Lebanese Forces announced the names of 19 party candidates and 20 allies on LF-supported lists at an event in Beirut on March 14, 2018 (the anniversary of the founding of the March 14 Movement). At the event LF leader Samir Geagea affirmed commitment to the cause of the March 14 Movement.

The electoral slogan of the party for the election campaign was It has become necessary (sar badda).

Progressive Socialist Party

At the ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of killing of Progressive Socialist Party founder Kamal Jumblatt in Moukhtara on February 19, 2017, Walid Jumblatt symbolically gave his keffiyeh to his son Taymour, symbolically marking the generational shift in the party leadership.

The Democratic Gathering bloc, the parliamentary platform of the Progressive Socialist Party, fielded 10 candidates across the country. The number of candidates of the party was lower than in previous elections, in 2009 the bloc won 12 seats. For the first time since 1992 PSP chief Walid Jumblatt did not stand as a candidate, with Taymour taking over as the party leader. The party fielded candidates for 3 out of 4 Druze seats in Mount Lebanon IV, keeping with the tradition of leaving a seat uncontested to help LDP chief Talal Arslan get elected.

PSP joined joint lists with the Future Movement in Beirut II, Bekaa II and Mount Lebanon IV and with Lebanese Forces in Mount Lebanon III and Mount Lebanon IV.

Arab Democratic Party

In a statement issued on April 29, 2018 the Political Representative of the Arab Democratic Party Rifaat Eid called on his followers to vote for the Alawite candidates Hussein Saloum (on the list of Wajih Barini) in North I and Ahmed Omran in North II (on the list of Faisal Karami).

Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

Prior to the election the Arab Socialist Baath Party had suffered a split, with Regional Secretary Assem Qanso and Numan Shalq heading in different directions. Both factions had nominated candidates for the elections, but none was accepted into a list and were thus eliminated from the polls. Reportedly, the Syrian ambassador had lobbied against any list accepting Qanso's candidates, as his group is not recognized from Damascus. A Baathist politician, Kassem Hachem, was included in a list in South III as Amal candidate, but not on behalf of the party. Former Regional Secretary Fayez Shukr headed a list in Bekaa III.

Lebanese Democratic Party

LDP had hoped to get Nasib Jawari included as the Druze candidate on the Amal-Hezbollah list in Beirut II, but Jawari was not inducted to the list and LDP withdrew his candidature. Likewise LDP withdrew its candidate from the race in the Bekaa II electoral district.

Independence Movement

The Independence Movement joined the FPM list in Zgharta.

National Alliance

The civil society alliance behind the "We are All National" ('Koullouna Watani') lists held a launching event on April 9, 2018 at Forum of Beirut. The alliance gathers people from over 11 different campaign groups. The 66 candidates of the alliance took part in the event. Speaking at the event Charbel Nahas outlined that the purpose of the list were to provide an alternative to the "corrupted" power in Lebanese politics. The nine lists were fielded in Beirut I, Bekaa I, all four electoral districts of Mount Lebanon, North II, North III and South III.

Ramgavar

The Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, or Ramgavar, issued a statement on April 18, 2018 condemning any candidate that opposed the unified Armenian parliamentary bloc. In Beirut I, Ramgavar candidates joined the list of Lebanese Forces, Kataeb and Michel Pharaon. One of its candidates is Dr. Avedis Dakassian, the Chair of the Lebanon Regional Committee of the party. In Metn, a Ramgavar candidate joined the list of Lebanese Forces.

Rifi Bloc

Ashraf Rifi, former Hariri ally, Internal Security Forces chief and Justice Minister, broke ranks with Hariri in 2016. In the 2016 Tripoli municipal election, he defeated Hariri's candidates and won 22 out of 24 seats. He fielded his own lists in the parliamentary election, in a move to challenge Hariri's dominance over Sunni politics. Ahead of the elections he profiled himself as a "hawk", unwilling to enter into talks with Hezbollah.

Rifi fielded lists in three electoral districts; Beirut II, North I and North II. Rifi tried to field a list in Bekaa I together with Kataeb and Lebanese Forces, but the initiative did not bear fruit. Likewise, Lebanese Forces and Rifi discussed a joint list in Bekaa III, but no such list materialized.

Syrian Social Nationalist Party

SSNP flag

The Syrian Social Nationalist Party fielded 7 candidates. In Mount Lebanon II (Metn) it joined the list of the Free Patriotic Movement. In Mount Lebanon IV (Aley-Chouf) it joined the list of Talal Arslan. In Bekaa I (Zahle) it joined the list of Nicolas Fattouch. In Bekaa III and South III SSNP candidates were included in the Amal-Hezbollah lists. In North I (Akkar) its candidate was included in the list of March 8 forces. In North III the SSNP entered the list of Boutros Harb and the Marada Movement.

Tashnaq

Tashnaq leader Hagop Pakradounian

On March 22, 2018 the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, or Tashnaq, announced its candidates in Beirut I and Mount Lebanon II (Metn). The party contested three seats in Beirut I and fielded incumbent parliamentarian Hagop Pakradounian in Metn. In Beirut I the party entered in alliance with FPM, Hunchaks and the Future Movement. In Metn the party entered in an alliance with FPM and SSNP.

In Bekaa I (Zahle) Tashnaq opted to support the candidature of Marie-Jeanne Bilezikjian, pharmacist and women's rights activist, on the joint FPM-Future list. The support for Bilezikjian's candidature was part of a wider agreement between Tashnaq and the Future Movement.

Candidates

Distribution of seats between electoral districts

After the deadline on 26 March 2018, the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities announced that 77 lists, with a total of 583 candidates, had been registered. The highest number of lists was in Beirut II, where nine lists were registered. Only two lists were registered in the Zahrani-Tyre electoral district. Notably, the erstwhile March 8 and March 14 blocs, which had dominated the 2009 elections, are no longer functional and parties sought alliances on local dynamics when setting up lists.

A Record number of Lebanese women running for office. In fact, out of the total 976 candidates who originally registered to run, 111 were female candidates - a staggering surge compared to just 12 women in 2009.

Sect		Seats	Candidates	Candidates per seat	Sect % of electorate in Electoral District
Alawite		2	11	5.5
	North I (Akkar)	1	4	4	4.97%
	North II (Tripoli)	1	7	7	6.04%
Armenian Catholic		1	5	5
	Beirut I	1	5	5	5.57%
Armenian Orthodox		5	14	2.8
	Beirut I	3	7	2.3	28.3%
	Bekaa I (Zahle)	1	4	4	4.99%
	Mount Lebanon II (Metn)	1	3	3	14.3%
Druze		8	37	4.6
	Beirut II	1	8	8	1.55%
	Bekaa II (West Bekaa-Rachaya)	1	2	2	14.8%
	Mount Lebanon III (Baabda)	1	4	4	17.6%
	Mount Lebanon IV (Aley)	2	8	4	40.5%
	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	2	10	5
	South III (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya)	1	5	5	3.65%
Evangelical		1	6	6
	Beirut II	1	6	6	0.81%
Greek Catholic		8	33	4.1
	Beirut I	1	4	4	9.8%
	Bekaa I (Zahle)	2	8	4	28.3%
	Bekaa III (Baalbek-Hermel)	1	5	5	5.36%
	Mount Lebanon II (Metn)	1	5	5	9.83%
	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	1	5	5	5.18%
	South I (Jezzine)	1	4	4	8.69%
	South II (Zahrany)	1	2	2	6.81%
Greek Orthodox		14	65	4.6
	Beirut I	1	5	5	19.2%
	Beirut II	1	7	7	5%
	Bekaa I (Zahle)	1	5	5	9.54%
	Bekaa II (West Bekaa-Rachaya)	1	3	3	7.16%
	Mount Lebanon II (Metn)	2	8	4	14.6%
	Mount Lebanon IV (Aley)	1	4	4	5.14%
	North I (Akkar)	2	9	4.5	14.7%
	North II (Tripoli)	1	7	7	6.24%
	North III (Koura)	3	11	3.7	20.7%
	South III (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya)	1	6	6	2.45%
Maronite		34	151	4.4
	Beirut I	1	5	5	13.2%
	Bekaa I (Zahle)	1	5	5	15.7%
	Bekaa II (West Bekaa-Rachaya)	1	3	3	7.22%
	Bekaa III (Baalbek-Hermel)	1	5	5	7.35%
	Mount Lebanon I (Jbeil)	2	10	5	82.1%
	Mount Lebanon I (Kesrwan)	5	23	4.6
	Mount Lebanon II (Metn)	4	19	4.8	44.8%
	Mount Lebanon III (Baabda)	3	12	4	36.8%
	Mount Lebanon IV (Aley)	2	9	4.5	27%
	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	3	16	5.3
	North I (Akkar)	1	6	6	10.9%
	North II (Tripoli)	1	5	5	3.5%
	North III (Batroun)	2	7	3.5	68.1%
	North III (Bcharre)	2	8	4
	North III (Zgharta)	3	12	4
	South I (Jezzine)	2	6	3	30.8%
Minorities		1	5	5
	Beirut I	1	5	5	11.8%
Shia		27	102	3.8
	Beirut II	2	13	6.5	20.6%
	Bekaa I (Zahle)	1	5	5	16%
	Bekaa II (West Bekaa-Rachaya)	1	3	3	14.7%
	Bekaa III (Baalbek-Hermel)	6	27	4.5	73.3%
	Mount Lebanon I (Jbeil)	1	5	5	10.7%
	Mount Lebanon III (Baabda)	2	7	3.5	25.2%
	South II (Tyre)	4	8	2	81.4%
	South II (Zahrany)	2	3	1.5
	South III (Bint Jbeil)	3	13	4.3	80.1%
	South III (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya)	2	7	3.5
	South III (Nabatieh)	3	11	3.7
Sunni		27	154	5.7
	Beirut II	6	47	7.8	62.1%
	Bekaa I (Zahle)	1	5	5	18.7%
	Bekaa II (West Bekaa-Rachaya)	2	5	2.5	48.8%
	Bekaa III (Baalbek-Hermel)	2	10	5	13.3%
	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	2	11	5.5	18.7%
	North I (Akkar)	3	18	6	67.5%
	North II (Dennieh)	2	13	6.5	82.91%
	North II (Minnieh)	1	7	7
	North II (Tripoli)	5	27	5.4
	South I (Saida)	2	7	3.5	44.2%
	South III (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya)	1	4	4	6.35%

Electoral districts

Incumbent parliamentarians marked in bold italic.

Beirut I (East Beirut)

Beirut I electoral district

The Eastern first Beirut electoral district covers 4 quartiers (neighbourhoods) of the Lebanese capital: Achrafieh, Saifi, Rmeil and Medawar. The area is predominately Christian; the largest community in the Beirut I electorate are Armenian Orthodox (28.33%). 19.2% are Greek Orthodox, 13.19% Maronite, 9.8% Greek Catholic, 9.76% Sunni, 5.57% Armenian Catholic, 3.95% Syriac Catholic, 3% Latin Catholics, 1.97% other Minorities groups, 2.88% Evangelicals, 1.99% Shia and 0.37% Druze or Alawite.

In first Beirut electoral district 5 lists were registered. After the split between the Future Movement and the Lebanese Forces, a joint list of the Free Patriotic Movement, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Tashnaq) and the Hunchaks was conceived ("Strong Beirut I") supported by the Future Movement. The Future Movement itself, however, stayed aloof from fielding candidates. The Lebanese Forces, together with the Kataeb Party, Ramgavars and Michel Pharaon, and with support from Antoun Sehnaoui, fielded their list under the label "Beirut I". Michelle Tueni fielded a third list, "We Are Beirut", being joined by incumbent Future MP Serge Torsarkissian.

For the Minorities seat the FPM fielded a Syriac Orthodox candidate, former Brigadier General Antoine Pano, whilst the Tueni list includes Latin Catholic candidate Rafic Bazerji, an independent from a family historically close to the National Liberal Party.

List		Armenian Orthodox, 3 seats			Maronite, 1 seat	Greek Orthodox, 1 seat	Greek Catholic, 1 seat	Armenian Catholic, 1 seat	Minorities, 1 seat
"Strong Beirut I"	Orange	Hakop Terzian (Tashnaq)	Alexander Matossian (Tashnaq)	Sebouh Kalpakian (Hunchak)	Massoud Achkar (Union for Lebanon)	Nicolas Chammas	Nicolas Sehnaoui (FPM)	Serg Gukhadarian (Tashnaq)	Antoine Pano (FPM)
"Beirut I"	Red	Carole Babikian	Avedis Dakessian (Ramgavar)	Elena Cloxian (Ramgavar)	Nadim Gemayel (Kataeb)	Emad Wakim (Lebanese Forces)	Michel Pharaon	Jean Talouzian	Riad Akel (Lebanese Forces)
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Paula Yacoubian (Saaba)	Laury Haytayan (LiBaladi)	Leon Talfazian (LiBaladi)	Gilbert Doumit (LiBaladi)	Ziad Abs (Sah)	Lucien Bourjeily (You Stink)	Yorgui Teyrouz (LiBaladi)	Joumana Haddad (LiBaladi)
"We are Beirut"	Navy Blue	Seybou Makhjian			Georges Sfeir	Michelle Tueni	Najib Lian	Serge Torsarkissian	Rafic Bazerji
"Loyalty to Beirut"	Green				Rojah Shuiri	Robert Obeid		Antoune Qalaijian	Gina Chammas
ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Beirut II (West Beirut)

Beirut II electoral district

The Western second Beirut electoral district covers 8 quartiers (neighbourhoods) of the Lebanese capital: Ain El Mreisseh, Bachoura, Mazraa, Minet El Hosn, Moussaitbeh, Port, Ras Beirut and Zuqaq al-Blat. The electorate is predominately Sunni (62.1%). 20.6% are Shia, 5% Greek Orthodox, 3.41% Minorities, 1.86% Maronite, 1.65% Armenian Orthodox, 1.63% Greek Catholic, 1.55% Druze, 1.31% Jews, 0.81% Evangelical (Protestant) and 0.03% Alawite.

In second Beirut electoral district 9 lists were registered. In the 2009 election, the Future Movement had won the election in West Beirut. But this time, a number of lists seeks to challenge the Future dominance over the Sunni electorate, "Beirut al-Watan" (alliance of al-Jamaa al-Islamiah and Al Liwaa newspaper editor Salah Salam), "Beiruti Opposition" (fielded by Ashraf Rifi), "Lebnan Herzen", "We are All Beirut" and "Dignity of Beirut" (led by former judge Khaled Hammoud).

The erstwhile March 8 bloc split into two lists. Hezbollah, Amal, Al-Ahbash and the Free Patriotic Movement fielded the "Unity of Beirut" list, whilst the People's Movement and Al-Mourabitoun fielded the "Voice of the People" list. Omar Ghandour, candidate of the Islamic Action Front, prominent businessman and former president of the Nejmeh Sporting Club, was named president of "Unity of Beirut" list. The SSNP faction of Ali Haidar fielded a candidate on the "Voice of the People" list. Naamat Badruddin, also on the "Voice of the People" list was a leader during the 2015 trash protest movement.

Under the previous electoral law the Future Movement could easily win landslides in West Beirut. But under the new electoral law analysts argued that the Future Movement could lose a number of seats. Apart from the Hezbollah-Amal-FPM list (expected to win the Shia vote), the main perceived challengers to the Future Movement were the "Beirut al-Watan" list and the "Lebnan Herzen" list of prominent businessman Fouad Makhzoumi. Nevertheless, the Beirut al-Watan list included several figures close to the Hariri family and Salam pledged to support the "Sunni za'im" Hariri to remain Prime Minister of Lebanon.

Prior to the deadline to register lists, the Lebanese Democratic Party announced the withdrawal of its candidate for the Druze seat. Likewise the Lebanese People's Congress, which had initially intended to field Samir Kneo on the Amal-Hezbollah list, withdrew from the race.

List		Sunni, 6 seats						Shia, 2 seats		Druze, 1 seat	Greek Orthodox, 1 seat	Evangelical, 1 seat
"Future for Beirut"	Blue	Saad Hariri (Future)	Tamam Salam (Future)	Nohad Machnouk (Future)	Roula Tabash Jaroudi (Future)	Rabea Hassouna (Future)	Zaher Eido (Future)	Ali Al Shaer (Future)	Ghazi Yusuf (Future)	Faisal Al Sayegh (PSP)	Nazih Najem (Future)	Bassam Chab (Future)
"Beiruti Opposition"	Burgundi	Ziad Itani	Akram Sinno	Amer Iskandarani	Safiyah Zaza	Yassine Kadado		Lina Hamdan		Zeina Mansour	Bchara Khairallah
"Unity of Beirut"	Yellow	Adnan Trabelsi (Al-Ahbash)	Omar Ghandour (Islamic Action Front)	Mohammed Baasiri				Amin Shri (Hezbollah)	Mohammad Khawaja (Amal)			Edgar Trabelsi (FPM)
"Lebnan Herzen"	Red	Fouad Makhzoumi (National Dialogue Party)	Marouf Itani	Rana Chemaitelly	Mahmoud Kareidiya	Saaduddin Hassan Khaled	Issam Barghout	Yousef Beydoun		Zeina Mounzer	Khalil Broummana	Nadim Costa
"Voice of the People"	Gray	Ibrahim Halabi (People's Movement)	Youssef Tabash (Mourabitoun)	Fares Manaimna	Hanan Osman	Roula Houry	Faten Zain	Naamat Badruddin		Hani Fayyad (SSNP (Intifada))	Omar Wakim (People's Movement)	Nabil Sebaaly
"Beirut al-Watan"	Navy Blue	Salah Salaam	Moustafa Banbouk (Al-Waqie Movement)	Bashar Qowatli	Imad Hout (al-Jama'a al-Islamiah)	Saad Wazzan	Nabil Bader	Salwa Khalil	Ibrahim Chamseddine	Saeed Halabi		Dalal Rahbani
"Dignity of Beirut"	Green	Khaled Hamoud	Mohammad Qadi	Jihad Matar	Hanan Sha'ar	Khuloud Wattar	Muhammad Shatila	Ali Sbeiti		Raja Zuhairi	Mikhael Mikhael
"Birutah al-Mustaqilin"	Purple	Walid Shatila	Abdul Karim Itani	Abdul Rahman Gilani	Khalid Hanqir	Khalid Mumtaz		Wisam Akush	Jihad Hammoud	Andera Zouheiri	Leon Sioufi	Fadi Zarazir
"We are All Beirut"	Orange	Ibrahim Mneimneh	Hassan Faysal Sano	Nadine Itani	Marwan Tibi	Fatima Moshref		Naji Kodeih			Zeina Majdalani	Nihad Yazbek
Source: Al-Modon, ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Bekaa I (Zahle)

Bekaa I electoral district, covering the Zahle District

The electorate in the first Bekaa electoral district is predominately Christian. 28.3% of the electorate is Greek Catholic, 18.7% Sunni, 16% Shia, 15.7% Maronite, 9.54% Greek Orthodox, 4.99% Armenian Orthodox, 1.07% Armenian Catholic, 5.2% other Christian communities and 0.52% Druze.

In the Zahle electoral district 5 lists were registered. An alliance of Free Patriotic Movement, Future Movement, Tashnaq and independents was announced with the candidature name "Zahle for All". Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb Party fielded the "Zahle is Our Cause" list. There were also the "Popular Bloc" list led by Mariam Skaff, "Zahle Options and Decisions" led by Nicolas Fattouch (including a Hezbollah candidate) and the civil society list "We are All National".

Rifi did not field a list in Zahle, as he failed to reach an alliance with Kataeb and Lebanese Forces on the matter.

List		Greek Catholic, 2 seats		Maronite, 1 seat	Greek Orthodox, 1 seat	Sunni, 1 seat	Shia, 1 seat	Armenian Orthodox, 1 seat
"Zahle for All"	Navy Blue	Michel Skaff	Michel George Daher	Salim Aoun (FPM)	Assaad Nakad	Asim Araji (Future)	Nizar Dalloul (Future)	Marie-Jeanne Bilezikjian
"Zahle is Our Cause"	Red	George Akeis (Lebanese Forces)	Michel Fattouch	Elie Maroni (Kataeb)	César Maalouf	Muhammad Ali Mita	Amer Sabouri	Boughous Kordian
"Popular Bloc"	Green	Mariam Skaff (Popular Bloc)	Nicola Amorri (Popular Bloc)	Paul Charbel (Popular Bloc)	Nicola Saba (Popular Bloc)	Ahmed Al-Ajoumi (Popular Bloc)	Osama Salhab (Popular Bloc)	George Bushikian (Popular Bloc)
"Zahle Options and Decisions"	Purple	Nicolas Fattouch		Khalil Hrawi	Nassif Al-Tini (SSNP)	Wajih Araji	Anwar Jomaa (Hezbollah)	Eddie Damrajian
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Ghassan Maalouf		Hanna Habib	Vanda Chedid (Green)	Houd Taaïmi	Mohammad Hassan
Source: Al-Liwaa, ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Bekaa II (West Bekaa-Rachaya)

The Bekaa II electoral district, covering the West Bekaa and the Rashaya districts

In the second Bekaa electoral district, nearly half of the electorate is Sunni (48.8%). 14.8% of the electorate is Druze, 14.7% Shia, 7.42% Greek Catholic, 7.22% Maronite and 7.16% Greek Orthodox.

In the West Bekaa-Rachaya electoral district 3 lists were registered. The Future Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party formed a joint list. Notably this list included Mohammed Qar'awi, owner of the Bekaa Hospital, a personality previously linked to the March 8 Alliance. Amin Wahbi, founder and leader of the Democratic Left Movement was included on the Future list.

The "Best Tomorrow" list is mainly backed by the Amal Movement. In the end the Free Patriotic Movement did not join the Amal-sponsored list, leaving Greek Orthodox candidate Elie Ferzli to join it as an individual.

TV presenter Maguy Aoun is heading a third list, organized by civil society elements.

The Lebanese Forces had tried to form a list with Ashraf Rifi to contest the election, but such a list did not materialize. Likewise, the Lebanese Democratic Party opted to withdrawal its candidate Dr. Nizar Zaki.

List		Sunni, 2 seats		Shia, 1 seat	Druze, 1 seat	Maronite, 1 seat	Greek Orthodox, 1 seat
"Future for West Bekaa"	Blue	Ziad Qadri (Future)	Mohammed Qar'awi (Future)	Amin Wahbi (Future)	Wael Abou Faour (PSP)	Henri Chadid	Ghassan Skaf
"Best Tomorrow"	Navy Blue	Abdel Rahim Murad (Union Party)		Mohammad Nasrallah (Amal)	Faisal Daoud (Lebanese Arab Struggle Movement)	Naji Ghanem	Elie Ferzli
"Civil Society"	Green	Faisal Rahal	Ala Shamali	Ali Sobh		Maguy Aoun	Joseph Ayoub
ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Bekaa III (Baalbek-Hermel)

The Bekaa III electoral district, covering the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate

The electorate in the electoral district is predominately Shia (73.3%). 13.3% are Sunni, 7.35% Maronite, 5.36% Greek Catholic and 0.72% Greek Orthodox. In Baalbek-Hermel electoral district 5 lists were registered. The "Hope and Loyalty" list gathers Hezbollah, Amal and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Its main challenger is expected to be the "Dignity and Development" list of the Lebanese Forces and the Future Movement. The Free Patriotic Movement had tried to form a list together with former speaker Hussein el-Husseini, but after el-Husseini pulled out from the electoral fray the alliance broke down and resulted in two separate lists: the "Development and Change" list and the "Independent" list. The Free Patriotic Movement candidates joined the list led by the former regional secretary of the Baath Party, Faiz Shukr.

List		Shia, 6 seats						Sunni, 2 seats		Maronite, 1 seat	Greek Catholic, 1 seat
"Hope and Loyalty"	Green-Yellow	Jamil Sayyed	Hussein el Hage Hassan (Hezbollah)	Ihab Hamadeh (Hezbollah)	Ali Mekdad (Hezbollah)	Ibrahim Moussawi (Hezbollah)	Ghazi Zaiter (Amal)	Younis Rifai (Al-Ahbash)	Elwalid Succariyeh	Emile Rahme (Solidarity Party)	Albert Mansour (SSNP)
"Dignity and Development"	Red	Yehya Chammas	Rifaat Masri	Mohammad Hajj Sleiman	Ghaleb Yaghi	Khodr Tlayss	Mohammad Hamiye	Bakr Hojeiry (Future)	Hussein Solh (Future)	Antoine Habchi (Lebanese Forces)	Selim Kallas
"Development and Change"	Grey	Abbas Yaghi	Ali Zuaiter	Ali Hamada				Abdallah Chall	Samih Ezzeddine	Chawki Fakhri	Siham Antoune (LCP)
"Independent"	Pink	Ghada Assaf (FPM)	Faiz Shukr	Mehdi Zogheib	Saad Hamadeh	Faisal Husseini	Fadi Younis	Ahmed Bayan	Mohamed Fleeti	Sandrella Merhej	Michel Emile Daher (FPM)
"National Cedars"	Gold	Mohammad Ghassan Moustapha Chall	Khaldoun Chreif	Abbas Assaf	Mohammad Raad	Fouad Maoula	Hamad Dib	Adel Mohammad Bayan	Waed Succariyeh	Leila Tannoury	Saadallah Ardo (Kataeb)
ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Mount Lebanon I (Jbeil-Kesrwan)

The Mount Lebanon I electoral district. The electoral district consists of two minor districts, the Jbeil (in red, covering Jbeil district) and Kesrwan (in brown, covering Kesrwan district).

In Jbeil-Kesrwan electoral district 5 lists were registered. The lists in the fray are the "Strong Lebanon" (supported by Free Patriotic Movement), the "National Solidarity" (Hezbollah), the "Anna al-Qarar" list (alliance between Kataeb Party, Fares Souhaid, Farid Heikal Al Khazen and independents, supported by Marada Movement), the "Clear Change" list (supported by Lebanese Forces) and the "We are All National" list.

In difference with previous elections, FPM and Hezbollah did not join forces on a common list. Hezbollah fielded its own list, with a Shia candidate (Hussein Zuaitar) from Baalbek. The Hezbollah list also includes former Lahoudist Telecommunications Minister Jean Louis Cardahi and dissident FPM politician Bassam Hachem.

The FPM list was led by General Chamel Roukoz, with World Maronite Foundation president Neemat Frem, former minister Ziad Baroud and former parliamentarian Mansour al-Bon, amongst others.

The Kataeb-Souhaid supported list sought to include personalities from civil society. It included former National Bloc general secretary Jean Hawat. There was resistance from Kataeb side to field incumbent parliamentarians Youssef Khalil and Gilberte Zouein, since they were linked to the Change and Reform Bloc.

The "We are All National" list included former minister Youssef Salame.

The electorate is predominately Christian; Maronites make up 82.1% of the electorate, 10.7% Shia, 1.91% Greek Orthodox, 1.4% Armenian Orthodox, 1.32% Sunni, 1.32% Greek Catholic and 1.26% other Christian communities.

List		Maronite (Jbeil, 2 seats)		Shia (Jbeil, 1 seat)	Maronite (Kesrwan, 5 seats)
"Strong Lebanon"	Purple	Simon Abi Rumia (FPM)	Walid Khoury	Rabih Awad	Chamel Roukoz	Neemat Frem	Roger Azar (FPM)	Ziad Baroud	Mansour al-Bon
"National Solidarity"	Gray	Jean-Louis Cardahi	Bassam Hachem	Hussein Zuaitar (Hezbollah)	Carlos Abu Nader	Zeina Kallab	Michel Keyrouz	Joseph Zayek	Joseph Zougheib
"Anna al-Qarar"	Navy Blue	Fares Souhaid	Jean Hawat	Moustapha Husseini	Farid Heikal Al Khazen	Shaker Salameh (Kataeb)	Youssef Khalil	Gilberte Zouein	Yolanda Khoury
"Clear Change	Red	Ziad Hawat (Lebanese Forces)	Fady Rouhana Sakr	Mahmoud Awad	Chawki Daccache (Lebanese Forces)	Rock Mehanna	Patricia Elias	Numan Murad	Ziad Khalifa (NLP)
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Nadim Souhaid	Rania Bassil	Mohamed Mekdad (LCP)	Youssef Salame	Douri Dou	Josephine Zogheib
ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Mount Lebanon II (Metn)

The Mount Lebanon II electoral district, covering the Metn district

Mount Lebanon II is a predominately Christian electoral district; 44.8% of the electorate is Maronite, 14.6% Greek Orthodox, 14.3% Armenian Orthodox, 9.83% Greek Catholic, 3.86% Armenian Catholic and 6.28% other Christian communities. 3.03% of the electorate is Shia, 1.88% Sunni and 1.38% Druze.

In Metn electoral district 5 lists were registered. Michel Murr fielded the list "Metn Loyalty". The Kataeb Party fielded its list under the label "Pulse Metn" together with the National Liberal Party and civil society personalities, the Lebanese Forces and allies contest under the label "Metn Heart of Lebanon" and an alliance of the Free Patriotic Movement-Syrian Social Nationalist Party-Tashnaq fielded the "Strong Metn" list.

The Communist Party had been in discussions with civil society activists on forming a list labelled "Nawar al-Metn", but the initiative did not materialize.

List		Maronite, 4 seats				Greek Orthodox, 2 seats		Greek Catholic, 1 seat	Armenian Orthodox, 1 seat
"Pulse Metn"	Green	Samy Gemayel (Kataeb)	Elias Hankache (Kataeb)	Nada Gharib (Green)	Joseph Karam (NLP)	Mazen Skaf	Violette Ghazal Balaa	Mikhail Ramouz	Yeghisheh Andonian
"Strong Metn"	Orange	Ibrahim Kanaan (FPM)	Corinne Achkar	Sarkis Sarkis	Ghassan Achkar (SSNP)	Ghassan Mukhaiber	Elias Bousaab (FPM)	Edgar Maalouf (FPM)	Hagop Pakradounian (Tashnaq)
"Metn Loyalty"	Navy Blue	Najwa Azar	Mellad El-Sabali (SSNP (Intifada))	Sharbel Abu Joudeh		Michel Murr		George Abboud
"Metn Heart of Lebanon"	Red	Eddy Abillama (Lebanese Forces)	Razi Haj	Chucri Moukarzel	Gisèle Hachem Zard	Lina Moukheiber	Jessica Azar	Michel Mecattaf	Ara Koyounian (Ramgavar)
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Emile Kanaan	Nadine Mousa	Adeeb Tohmah	Vicky Zouin (Saaba)	Georges Rahbani (Saaba)		Charbel Nahas (Citizens in the State)
ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Mount Lebanon III (Baabda)

The Mount Lebanon III electoral district, covering the Baabda district

In Baabda electoral district 4 lists were registered. Whilst the Free Patriotic Movement and the March 8 coalition had gone separate ways in most electoral districts, they managed to form a joint list in Baabda under the label "National Reconciliation". The other main list in the fray is the "Unity and Development of Baabda" list, an alliance of the Progressive Socialist Party, the Lebanese Forces, independents and Salah Harake, supported by the Future Movement. There are also two civil society lists. The "Together for Baabda" list was presented by Kataeb chief Sami Gemayel and NLP chief Dory Chamoun on March 3, 2018, a list including civil society activists and environmentalists. It includes the founder of Terre-Liban and the Lebanese Ecological Movement, a platform of NGOs, Paul Abi Rached as one of its candidates.

36.8% of the electorate is Maronite, 25.2% Shia, 17.6% Druze, 7.61% Greek Orthodox, 6.11% Sunni, 4.6% Greek Catholic and 2.14% belong to other Christian communities.

List		Maronite, 3 seats			Shia, 2 seats		Druze, 1 seat
"National Reconciliation"	Orange	Hikmat Dib (FPM)	Alain Aoun (FPM)	Naji Gharios (FPM)	Ali Ammar (Hezbollah)	Fadi Alame (Amal)	Souhail Awar (LDP)
"Unity and Development of Baabda"	Red	Cynthia Asmar	Joseph Adaïmi	Pierre Bouassi (Lebanese Forces)	Salah Harake		Hadi Abou el-Hosn (PSP)
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Joseph Wanis	Ziad Akel	Marie Claude Helou (Saaba)	Ali Darwish (Citizens in the State)	Wasif Harakat	Rania Masri (Citizens in the State)
"Together for Baabda"	Green	Paul Abi Rached	Elie Gharios	Ramzi Bou Khaled (Kataeb)	Said Alameh	Olfat Sabeh	Ajwad Ayach
ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Mount Lebanon IV (Aley-Chouf)

The Mount Lebanon IV electoral district. The electoral district consists of two minor districts, the Aley (in red, covering Aley district) and Chouf (in brown, covering Chouf district).

In Aley-Chouf electoral district 6 lists were registered. 40.5% of the electorate is Druze, 27% Maronite, 18.7% Sunni, 5.18% Greek Catholic, 5.14% Greek Orthodox, 2.6% Shia and 0.91% belongs to other Christian communities.

The battle was expected to be mainly between two lists: the "Reconciliation" (Progressive Socialist Party-Future Movement-Lebanese Forces) list and the "Mountain Pledge" (Lebanese Democratic Party-Free Patriotic Movement-Syrian Social Nationalist Party) list. The remaining lists were the "Free Decision" (Kataeb Party and National Liberal Party) list, the "National Unity" list of Wiam Wahhab (former Minister, ex-LDP), the "Civic" list and the "We are All National" list.

Towards the end of February the Democratic Renewal Movement candidate Antoine Haddad announced his withdrawal from the race.

List		Druze (Aley, 2 seats)		Maronite (Aley, 2 seats)		Greek Orthodox (Aley, 1 seat)
"Reconciliation"	Red	Akram Chehayeb (PSP)		Henri Helou (Democratic Gathering)	Raji Saad (Democratic Gathering)	Anis Nasar (Lebanese Forces)
"Mountain Pledge"	Green-Orange	Talal Arslan (LDP)		César Abi Khalil (FPM)	Imad Hajj	Elias Hanna (FPM)
"Free Decision"	Navy Blue	Sami Ramah		Teodora Bajani (Kataeb)	Antoine Bou Melhab (NLP)
"National Unity"	Green	Shafiq Salama Radwan	Khaled Aref Khadaj (Arab Unification Party)	Souhail Khalil Bajani		Walid Anis Khairallah
"Civic"	Silver	Mark Daou		Fadi Khoury
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Emad Qazi	Alaa Sabbagh	Karl Melham		Zoya Jureidini
ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

List		Maronite (Chouf, 3 seats)			Druze (Chouf, 2 seats)		Sunni (Chouf, 2 seats)		Greek Catholic (Chouf, 1 seat)
"Reconciliation"	Red	Georges Adwan (Lebanese Forces)	Ghattas Khoury (Future)	Naji Bustani	Taymour Jumblatt (PSP)	Marwan Hamadeh (PSP)	Bilal Abdullah (PSP)	Mohammed Hajjar (Future)	Nima Tomeh (Democratic Gathering)
"Mountain Pledge"	Green-Orange	Mario Aoun (FPM)	Farid Bustani	Samir Aoun (SSNP)	Marwan Halawi (LDP)	Mazen Abu Dergham (LDP)	Tareq Khatib (FPM)	Ali Al Hajj	Ghassan Atallah (FPM)
"Free Decision"	Navy Blue	Camille Dory Chamoun (NLP)	Joseph Eid (Kataeb)	Da'id Qazi (NLP)	Sami Hamada	Elhan Farahat	Mazin Shabu	Rafat Shaaban	Ghassan Moghbab
"National Unity"	Green	Ziad Antoine Choueiri	As'ad Edmon Abu Jouda		Wiam Wahhab (Arab Unification Party)		Elias Abdel Salam Baraj	Zahir Khatib (Toilers League)	Abu Rajaili
"Civic"	Silver	Eliane Qazi	Elias Gharib	Marwan Matani	Rami Hamadeh		Maya Terro		Chukri Haddad
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Ghada Maroni Eid	George Aoun		Rania Ghaith	Maher Abu Shaqra	Mohammed Sami Hajjar	Mazen Nasruddin	Antoine Fawaz (LCP)
ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

North I (Akkar)

The North I electoral district, covering the Akkar Governorate

In Akkar 6 lists were registered. The Future Movement opted for a list of its own (with Lebanese Forces candidate Qatisha as candidate for a Greek Orthodox seat). There is also a list supported by March 8 coalition "The Decision for Akkar" (headed by ex-MP Wajih Barini, in alliance with the Marada Movement and the Arab Democratic Party), the "Decision of Akkar" list, the "Strong Akkar" list (Free Patriotic Movement, al-Jamaa al-Islamiah, pro-Future independents), "Sovereign Lebanon" list (led by Ashraf Rifi) and the "Women of Akkar" list.

The electorate is predominately Sunni (67.5%). 14.7% of the electorate is Greek Orthodox, 10.9% Maronite, 4.97% Alawite, 1.05% Shia, 0.62% Greek Catholic and 0.29% from other Christian communities.

List		Sunni, 3 seats			Greek Orthodox, 2 seats		Maronite, 1 seat	Alawite, 1 seat
"Future of Akkar"	Blue	Waleed Wajih Barini (Future)	Mohammad Tarek Talal Maaribi (Future)	Mohammed Suleiman (Future)	Wahbi Qatisha (Lebanese Forces)	Jean Moussa (Future)	Hadi Hobeiche (Future)	Khodr Habib (Future)
"Decision for Akkar"	Green	Wajih Barini (Akkari People's Gathering)	Adnan Marab	Hussein Masri	Emile Abboud (SSNP)	Karim Rassi (Marada)	Michel Antonios Daher	Hussein Salloum
"Decision of Akkar"	Red	Kamal Khazal	Ali Omar (Resistance Movement)	Basem Khalid			George Nader
"Strong Akkar"	Gold	Mohammad Yahya	Mohamed Shadeed (Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya)	Mahmoud Hadara	Riad Rahal	Asaad Dergham (FPM)	Jamie Jabbour (FPM)	Mustafa Ali Hussein (Lebanese People's Movement)
"Sovereign Lebanon"	Red	Ibrahim Maraab	Bader Ismail	Ahmed Jowhar	Elie Saad	Joseph Wehbe	Ziad Bitar	Mohammed Rustam
"Women of Akkar"	Pink	Rola Murad	Suad Salah	Ghoulay Assaad	Nidal Skaf		Mary Khoury
Source: Saida City, Al-Modon, An-Nahar Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

North II (Tripoli-Minnieh-Dennieh)

The North II electoral district, covering the Tripoli and Minnieh-Dennieh districts. The North II electoral district is divided into 3 minor districts: Tripoli (in green), Minnieh (in red) and Dennieh (in brown).

Under the previous electoral law, Tripoli and Minnieh-Dennieh constituted two different constituencies. The electorate is predominately Sunni (82.91%), with significant minorities of Greek Orthodox (6.24%), Alawites (6.04%) and Maronites (3.5%). 0.51% of the electorate are Armenian Orthodox, 0.32% Armenian Catholics and 0.59% belong to other Christian communities.

With the new election law in place, the heavyweights of Tripoli politics went in different directions. Justifying the decision to head to the polls alone, the Future Movement general secretary Ahmed Hariri stated that "[w]e will form our own list because we came to understand that a lot of people had taken advantage of us...". All in all, 8 lists were registered in the second northern electoral district; the "Determination" list of former Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the Future Movement list, a list led by Ashraf Rifi, the "National Dignity" list (alliance between Faisal Karami and Jihad Samad, with participation of Al-Ahbash and Marada Movement), the "People's Decision" list (alliance between Free Patriotic Movement and Kamal Kheir, joined by independents), the "We are All National" list (Sabaa Party, Movement of Citizens in the State, Socialist Arab Lebanon Vanguard Party, Resistance Movement and independents), the "Independent Decision" list (alliance between al-Jamaa al-Islamiah, ex-parliamentarian Mesbah Ahdab and independents) and the "Independent Civil Society" List (independents). Mohammad Safadi opted to stay out of the electoral race, calling for support to the Future list. Safadi announced his decision at a press conference at the Safadi Cultural Center.

In Dennieh, the 28-year old Sami Fatfat overtook his father Ahmad Fatfat's mantle as the Future Movement candidate.

Mikati launched his "Determination" list at an electoral meeting at the Quality Inn Hotel in Tripoli on March 18, 2018. Amongst his candidates were former minister Jean Obeid and Nicholas Nahas and incumbent Future parliamentarian Kazim Kheir. Kheir was denied the Minnieh spot on the Future Movement list, a move that pushed him to join the Mikati list instead.

List		Sunni (Tripoli, 5 seats)					Maronite (Tripoli, 1 seat)	Greek Orthodox (Tripoli, 1 seat)	Alawite (Tripoli, 1 seat)	Sunni (Dennieh, 2 seats)		Sunni (Minnieh, 1 seat)
"Future for the North"	Blue	Mohammad Kabbara (Future)	Samir Jisr (Future)	Dima Jamali (Future)	Chadi Nachabe (Future)	Walid Sawalhi (Future)	George Bkassini (Future)	Nima Mahfoud (Future)	Leila Chahoud (Future)	Sami Fatfat (Future)	Qassem Abdel Aziz (Future)	Osman Alameddine (Future)
"National Dignity"	Green	Faisal Karami	Taha Naji (Al-Ahbash)	Mohammed Safouh Yakan	Abdel Nasser Masri	Ayman Nouruddin Omar		Rafli Anton Diab (Marada)	Ahmed Mahmoud Omran	Jihad Samad		Adel Zreika
"Sovereign Lebanon"	Red	Ashraf Rifi	Khaled Tadmori	Mohammed Walid Qamaruddin	Mohamed Salhab	Ali Ayoubi	Halim Zani	George Jalad	Badr Eid	Ragheb Raad	Oussama Amoun	Waleed Masri
"Determination"	Purple	Najib Mikati (Azm Movement)	Rashid Mokhtam (Azm Movement)	Mohamed Nadim Jisr (Azm Movement)	Tawfiq Sultan (Azm Movement)	Mirfat Hawz (Azm Movement)	Jean Obeid (Azm Movement)	Nicholas Nahas (Azm Movement)	Alawi Darwish (Azm Movement)	Mohammed Fadhil (Azm Movement)	Jihad Yusuf (Azm Movement)	Kazim Kheir (Azm Movement)
"Independent Decision"	Grey	Mesbah Ahdab	Waseem Alwan (al-Jama'a al-Islamiah)	Nariman Jamal			Tony Khalifa	Menzeh Sawan	Hisham Ibrahim (Al Moaie)	Ali Farouk Samad	Abdul Salam Trad	Mohamed Ahmed
"People's Decision"	Orange	Ali Noor	Khalid Roumieh				Tony Maroni (FPM)	Nastas Koshary	Mahmoud Shehadeh	Ahmed Shandab	Ali Hermoush	Kamal Kheir
"Independent Civil Society"	Yellow	Heba Naja	Jamal Badawi					Fadi Jamal	Hassan Hassan Khalil	Samah Arja	Ayman Jamal	Abdullah Rifai
"We are All National"	Turqouise	Nariman Chamaa	Yehia Mawloud	Mohammad Monzer Maaliki (Lebanon Vanguard)	Wathek Moukaddam	Malek Moulawi	Moussa Khoury	Farah Issa	Zeinelddine Dib	Ahmad Douhaiby		Dany Othman
Source: Al-Modon Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

North III (Bcharre-Zghorta-Batroun-Koura)

The North III electoral district, divided into 4 minor districts, each corresponding to a homonymous district: Batroun (purple), Bcharre (green), Koura (brown) and Zgharta (red).

In third northern electoral district 4 lists were registered. The "Strong North" list, headed by Gebran Bassil, gathers the Free Patriotic Movement, the Independence Movement, the Future Movement, the "Strong Republic Pulse" gathers the Lebanese Forces, the Kataeb Party and the Democratic Left Movement, the "With Us for the North and Lebanon", gathering the Marada Movement, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and Boutros Harb whilst the civil society list "We are All National" gathers the Movement of Citizens in the State, Sabaa Party and Sah.

The electorate is predominately Christian; 68.1% are Maronite, 20.7% Greek Orthodox, 8.94% Sunni, 0.93% Shia, 0.73% Greek Catholic, 0.38% from other Christian communities and 0.24% Alawite.

List		Maronite (Batroun, 2 seats)		Maronite (Bcharre, 2 seats)		Maronite (Zgharta, 3 seats)			Greek Orthodox (Koura, 3 seats)
"Strong North"	Brown	Gebran Bassil (FPM)	Nemeh Ibrahim (FPM)	Said Touq (FPM)	George Boutros (FPM)	Michel Moawad (Independence Movement)	Pierre Raffoul (FPM)	Jawad Boulos (Independence Movement)	Nicolas Ghosn (Future)	Georges Atallah (FPM)	Greta Saab (FPM)
"Strong Republic Pulse"	Red	Fadi Saad (Lebanese Forces)	Samer Saada (Kataeb)	Strida Geagea (Lebanese Forces)	Joseph Isaac (Lebanese Forces)	Marius Baini (Lebanese Forces)	Michel Douaihy (Kataeb)	Kayssar Moawad	Fadi Karam (Lebanese Forces)	Albert Androus (Kataeb)	George Mansour (Democratic Left)
"With Us for the North and Lebanon"	Green	Boutros Harb		Rui Issa Khoury	Melhem Gibran Touk	Tony Franjieh (Marada)	Estephan Douaihy (Marada)	Salim Bey Karam (Marada)	Selim Saadeh (SSNP)	Fayez Ghosn (Marada)	Abdallah Zakhem
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Layal Bou Moussa (Citizens in the State)	Antoine Khoury Harb	Edmond Touk (Saaba)	Maurice Koura (Saaba)	Riad Ghazala	Antonia Ghamra	Antoine Yamin (Saaba)	Bassam Ghantous (Saaba)	Fadwa Nassif (Saaba)
Source: ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

South I (Saida-Jezzine)

The South I electoral district, divided into 2 minor districts: Saida (red, corresponding to the Saida municipality) and Jezzine (brown, corresponding to Jezzine district

In the Saida-Jezzine electoral district, four candidate lists crystallized: "Integration and Dignity" (Future Movement and independents), "Saida and Jezzine Together" (alliance between al-Jamaa al-Islamiah, Free Patriotic Movement and Dr. Abdul Rahman Bizri), "For All People" (alliance between Popular Nasserite Organization and Ibrahim Azar, supported by Amal Movement and Hezbollah) and the "Capacity of Change" List (alliance between Kataeb Party, Lebanese Forces and the March 11 Group).

The Future Movement and the Free Patriotic Movement had tried to negotiate an electoral pact, but reportedly FPM had insisted on keeping Bizri on their list. After the dialogue with Future broke down, FPM reached out to al-Jamaa al-Islamiah, since the Popular Nasserite Organization had already concluded a pact with Ibrahim Azar (an independent Maronite supported by Amal-Hezbollah alliance).

44.2% of the electorate is Sunni, 30.8% Maronite, 15.1% Shia, 8.69% Greek Catholic, 0.67% from other Christian communities and 0.48% Druze.

List		Sunni (Saida, 2 seats)		Maronite (Jezzine, 2 seats)		Greek Catholic (Jezzine, 1 seat)
"Integration and Dignity"	Blue	Bahia Hariri (Future)	Hassan Chamseddine (Future)	Amin Edmon Rizk	Angel Khawand	Robert Khoury
"Saida and Jezzine Together"	Purple	Abdul Rahman Bizri	Bassam Hammoud (Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya)	Amal Abou Zeid (FPM)	Ziad Aswad (FPM)	Salim Khoury (FPM)
"For All People"	Red	Osama Saad (PNO)	Abdel Kader Bsat	Ibrahim Samir Azar		Yusuf Hanna Skaf
"Capacity of Change"	Navy Blue	Samir Bizri (March 11)		Joseph Nahra (Kataeb)		Ajaj Haddad (Lebanese Forces)
Source: Saida City, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

South II (Zahrany-Tyre)

The South II electoral district, divided into 2 minor districts: Zahrani or Saida Villages (red, corresponding to areas of Saida District outside of Saida municipality) and Tyre (brown, corresponding to Tyre district

In second southern electoral district 2 lists were registered. The "Hope and Loyalty" (Amal-Hezbollah) list led by Nabih Berri is challenged by the "Together for Change" list (an alliance of Riad Al-Assaad, the Lebanese Communist Party and independents).

The electorate is predominately Shia (81.4%). 6.81% of the electorare is Greek Catholic, 6.1% Sunni, 4.55% Maronite and 1.14% belong to other Christian communities.

List		Shia (Tyre, 4 seats)				Shia (Zahrany, 2 seats)		Greek Catholic (Zahrany, 1 seat)
"Hope and Loyalty"	Green-Yellow	Ali Khreis (Amal)	Hussein Jeshi (Hezbollah)	Inayat Ezzeddine (Amal)	Nawwaf Moussawi (Hezbollah)	Nabih Berri (Amal)	Ali Osseiran (Amal)	Michel Moussa (Amal)
"Together for Change"	Red	Ahmed Marwa	Lina Al-Husseini	Abdel Nasser Farran	Ra'id Ataya (LCP)	Riad Al-Assaad		Wisam Al-Haj
Source: Al-Modon, Lebanon42, Al-Modon, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

South III (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya-Nabatieh-Bint Jbeil)

The South III electoral district, covering the Nabatieh Governorate, divided into 3 minor districts: Nabatieh (red, corresponding to Nabatieh district), Marjayoun-Hasbaya (brown, covering the Hasbaya and Marjayoun districts) and Bint Jbeil (green, corresponding to Bint Jbeil district

In third southern electoral district 6 lists were registered. The electorate is predominately Shia (80.1%). 6.35% of the electorate is Sunni, 5.27% Maronite, 3.65% Druze, 2.45% Greek Orthodox, 1.8% Greek Catholic and 0.39% from other Christian communities.

The Amal-Hezbollah coalition fielded the "Hope and Loyalty" list. It includes a Baathist Sunni candidate, Kassem Hachem, who is fielded as Amal candidate and officially not sponsored by the Baath Party.

The Future Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Democratic Party fielded a joint list called "The South is Worth It", a list that L'Orient Le Jour labelled "supplementary" to the Amal-Hezbollah list. It includes a pro-Future independent Sunni candidate, Imad Khatib, who has business links to Amal leader Berri. Three Shia candidates (Badruddin, Sharafuddin and Osseiran) were previously close to Hezbollah. Two pro-FPM independent candidates were included in the list, Chadi Massaad (Greek Orthodox) and Mourhaf Ramadan (Shia). Druze candidate Dr. Wissam Charouf is a member of the Political Council of the Lebanese Democratic Party.

"A Vote for Change" list was fielded by the Lebanese Communist Party, the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon and independents. It includes a pro-SSNP independent candidate, Hussein Baydoun. The "National" coalition fielded a list with five candidates.

The two remaining of the lists in the fray took a more confrontative approach towards the Hezbollah-Amal dominance of the local political scene. The "Shibna Hakki" list was fielded by the Lebanese Forces and Shia dissidents, with the Shia journalist Ali Al-Amin on the list. Al-Amin had been publicly labelled as one of the "Shia of the [U.S.] Embassy" by Hezbollah general secretary Nasrallah. Al-Amin and fellow candidate and journalist Imad Komeyha, had been signaturies to the 2017 call for fresh elections to the High Shia Council. Ahmed Assaad, leader of the Lebanese Option Party, fielded an anti-Hezbollah list of his own with candidates from his party. The list included Al-Assaad's wife Abeer Ramadan.

List		Shia (Bint Jbeil, 3 seats)			Shia (Nabatieh, 3 seats)			Shia (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya, 2 seats)		Sunni (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya, 1 seat)	Druze (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya, 1 seat)	Greek Orthodox (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya, 1 seat)
"Hope and Loyalty"	Green-Yellow	Ali Ahmad Bazzi (Amal)	Ayoub Hmayed (Amal)	Hassan Fadlallah (Hezbollah)	Yassine Jaber (Amal)	Mohammad Raad (Hezbollah)	Hani Kobeissy (Amal)	Ali Hassan Khalil (Amal)	Ali Fayyad (Hezbollah)	Kassem Hachem (Amal)	Anwar Khalil (Amal)	Assaad Hardan (SSNP)
"The South is Worth It"	Pink	Mohammed Qadouh	Hussein Shaer		Hisham Jaber	Mustafa Badruddin	Nadim Osseiran	Abbas Sharafuddin	Mourhaf Ramadan	Imad Khatib	Wissam Charouf (LDP)	Chadi Massaad
"Shibna Hakki"	Red	Ali Al-Amin			Ahmed Ismail	Rami Ollaik		Imad Komeyha				Fadi Salama (Lebanese Forces)
"A Vote for Change"	Yellow	Ahmed Murad (LCP)	Abbas Sorour	Hussein Baydoun	Ali Al-Haj Ali (LCP)					Said Issa	Ghassan Hadifa (LCP)	Hala Abu Kasm (LCP)
"We Change"	Navy Blue	Mohammed Faraj (Lebanese Option)	Abdallah Salman (Lebanese Option)		Ahmed Assaad (Lebanese Option)			Abeer Ramadhan (Lebanese Option)	Rabah Abi Haidar (Lebanese Option)	Adnan Khatib (Lebanese Option)	Kanaj Alimuddin (Lebanese Option)	Minah Saab (Lebanese Option)
"We are All National"	Turquoise	Rima Hamid (Saaba)	Salah Nouruddin		Jamil Balout (Saaba)						Akram Qais	Fadi Abu Jamra
Source: Al-Modon, Jaboubia, Jaboubia Ministry of Interior and Municipalities

Results

Early, unofficial, reports indicated that Hezbollah had emerged as the main winner of the election. Saad Hariri, commenting on the election result the day after the election, admitted that his Future Movement had lost about a third of its seats, but reaffirmed that "[t]hose who won in parliamentary elections are our partners in the principle of stability" and that he was satisfied with the outcome.

As per unofficial data published by the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International, the Future Movement won 20 seats, Amal 16 seats, FPM 16 seats, Lebanese Forces 16 seats, Hezbollah 12 seats, the Progressive Socialist Party 9 seats, the Azm Movement 4 seats, Kataeb Party 3 seats, Marada Movement 3 seats, SSNP 3 seats, Tashnaq 3 seats, 2 seats to We are All National, and 1 seat each to Al-Ahbash, the Independence Movement, LDP, the National Dialogue Party, PNO and the Union Party, as well as 16 seats to independents. See full summary below of the names:

Name	Electoral district	Sect	List	Party
Jean Talouzian	Beirut I	AC	"Beirut I"
Alexander Matossian	Beirut I	AO	"Strong Beirut I"	Tashnaq
Hakop Terzian	Beirut I	AO	"Strong Beirut I"	Tashnaq
Paula Yacoubian	Beirut I	AO	"We are All National" (Beirut I)	Saaba
Nicolas Sehnaoui	Beirut I	GC	"Strong Beirut I"	FPM
Emad Wakim	Beirut I	GO	"Beirut I"	Lebanese Forces
Nadim Gemayel	Beirut I	MA	"Beirut I"	Kataeb
Joumana Haddad	Beirut I	MI	"We are All National" (Beirut I)	LiBaladi
Faisal Al Sayegh	Beirut II	DR	"Future for Beirut"	PSP
Edgar Trabelsi	Beirut II	EV	"Unity of Beirut"	FPM
Nazih Najem	Beirut II	GO	"Future for Beirut"	Future
Amin Sherri	Beirut II	SH	"Unity of Beirut"	Hezbollah
Mohammad Khawaja	Beirut II	SH	"Unity of Beirut"	Amal
Adnan Trabelsi	Beirut II	SU	"Unity of Beirut"	Al-Ahbash
Fouad Makhzoumi	Beirut II	SU	"Lebnan Herzen"	National Dialogue Party
Nohad Machnouk	Beirut II	SU	"Future for Beirut"	Future
Roula Tabash Jaroudi	Beirut II	SU	"Future for Beirut"	Future
Saad Hariri	Beirut II	SU	"Future for Beirut"	Future
Tamam Salam	Beirut II	SU	"Future for Beirut"	Future
Boughous Kordian	Bekaa I	AO	"Zahle is Our Cause"
George Akeis	Bekaa I	GC	"Zahle is Our Cause"	Lebanese Forces
Michel George Daher	Bekaa I	GC	"Zahle for All"
Cesar Maalouf	Bekaa I	GO	"Zahle is Our Cause"
Salim Aoun	Bekaa I	MA	"Zahle for All"	FPM
Anwar Jomaa	Bekaa I	SH	"Zahle Options and Decisions"	Hezbollah
Asim Araji	Bekaa I	SU	"Zahle for All"	Future
Wael Abou Faour	Bekaa II	DR	"Future for West Bekaa"	PSP
Elie Ferzli	Bekaa II	GO	"Best Tomorrow"
Henri Chadid	Bekaa II	MA	"Future for West Bekaa"
Mohammad Nasrallah	Bekaa II	SH	"Best Tomorrow"	Amal
Abdel Rahim Murad	Bekaa II	SU	"Best Tomorrow"	Union Party
Mohammed Qar'awi	Bekaa II	SU	"Future for West Bekaa"	Future
Albert Mansour	Bekaa III	GC	"Hope and Loyalty" (Bekaa III)	SSNP
Antoine Habchi	Bekaa III	MA	"Dignity and Development"	Lebanese Forces
Ali Mekdad	Bekaa III	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (Bekaa III)	Hezbollah
Ghazi Zaiter	Bekaa III	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (Bekaa III)	Amal
Hussein el Hage Hassan	Bekaa III	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (Bekaa III)	Hezbollah
Ibrahim Moussawi	Bekaa III	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (Bekaa III)	Hezbollah
Ihab Hamadeh	Bekaa III	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (Bekaa III)	Hezbollah
Jamil Al Sayyed	Bekaa III	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (Bekaa III)
Elwalid Succariyeh	Bekaa III	SU	"Hope and Loyalty" (Bekaa III)
Hussein Solh	Bekaa III	SU	"Dignity and Development"	Future
Simon Abi Rumia	Mount Lebanon I (Jbeil)	MA	"Strong Lebanon"	FPM
Ziad Hawat	Mount Lebanon I (Jbeil)	MA	"Clear Change"	Lebanese Forces
Rabih Awad	Mount Lebanon I (Jbeil)	SH	"Strong Lebanon"
Chamel Roukoz	Mount Lebanon I (Kesrwan)	MA	"Strong Lebanon"
Chawki Daccache	Mount Lebanon I (Kesrwan)	MA	"Clear Change"	Lebanese Forces
Farid Heikal Al Khazen	Mount Lebanon I (Kesrwan)	MA	"Anna al-Qarar"
Neemat Frem	Mount Lebanon I (Kesrwan)	MA	"Strong Lebanon"
Roger Azar	Mount Lebanon I (Kesrwan)	MA	"Strong Lebanon"	FPM
Hagop Pakradounian	Mount Lebanon II	AO	"Strong Metn"	Tashnaq
Edgar Maalouf	Mount Lebanon II	GC	"Strong Metn"
Elias Bousaab	Mount Lebanon II	GO	"Strong Metn"	FPM
Michel Murr	Mount Lebanon II	GO	"Metn Loyalty"
Eddy Abillama	Mount Lebanon II	MA	"Metn Heart of Lebanon"	Lebanese Forces
Elias Hankache	Mount Lebanon II	MA	"Pulse Metn"	Kataeb
Ibrahim Kanaan	Mount Lebanon II	MA	"Strong Metn"	FPM
Samy Gemayel	Mount Lebanon II	MA	"Pulse Metn"	Kataeb
Hadi Abou el-Hosn	Mount Lebanon III	DR	"Unity and Development of Baabda"	PSP
Alain Aoun	Mount Lebanon III	MA	"National Reconciliation"	FPM
Hikmat Dib	Mount Lebanon III	MA	"National Reconciliation"	FPM
Pierre Bouassi	Mount Lebanon III	MA	"Unity and Development of Baabda"	Lebanese Forces
Ali Ammar	Mount Lebanon III	SH	"National Reconciliation"	Hezbollah
Fadi Alame	Mount Lebanon III	SH	"National Reconciliation"	Amal
Akram Chehayeb	Mount Lebanon IV (Aley)	DR	"Reconciliation"	PSP
Talal Arslan	Mount Lebanon IV (Aley)	DR	"Mountain Pledge"	LDP
Anis Nasar	Mount Lebanon IV (Aley)	GO	"Reconciliation"	Lebanese Forces
Cesar Abi Khalil	Mount Lebanon IV (Aley)	MA	"Mountain Pledge"	FPM
Henri Helou	Mount Lebanon IV (Aley)	MA	"Reconciliation"	PSP
Marwan Hamadeh	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	DR	"Reconciliation"	PSP
Taymour Jumblatt	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	DR	"Reconciliation"	PSP
Nima Tomeh	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	GC	"Reconciliation"	PSP
Georges Adwan	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	MA	"Reconciliation"	Lebanese Forces
Mario Aoun	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	MA	"Mountain Pledge"	FPM
Naji Bustani	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	MA	"Reconciliation"
Bilal Abdullah	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	SU	"Reconciliation"	PSP
Mohammed Hajjar	Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf)	SU	"Reconciliation"	Future
Khodr Habib	North I	AL	"Future of Akkar"	Future
Asaad Dergham	North I	GO	"Strong Akkar"	FPM
Wahbi Qatisha	North I	GO	"Future of Akkar"	Lebanese Forces
Hadi Hobeiche	North I	MA	"Future of Akkar"	Future
Mohammad Tarek Talal Maaribi	North I	SU	"Future of Akkar"	Future
Mohammed Suleiman	North I	SU	"Future of Akkar"	Future
Waleed Wajih Barini	North I	SU	"Future of Akkar"	Future
Jihad Samad	North II (Dennieh)	SU	"National Dignity"
Sami Fatfat	North II (Dennieh)	SU	"Future for the North"	Future
Osman Alameddine	North II (Minnieh)	SU	"Future for the North"	Future
Alawi Darwish	North II (Tripoli)	AL	"Determination"	Azm Movement
Nicholas Nahas	North II (Tripoli)	GO	"Determination"	Azm Movement
Jean Obeid	North II (Tripoli)	MA	"Determination"	Azm Movement
Dima Jamali	North II (Tripoli)	SU	"Future for the North"	Future
Faisal Karami	North II (Tripoli)	SU	"National Dignity"
Mohammad Kabbara	North II (Tripoli)	SU	"Future for the North"	Future
Najib Mikati	North II (Tripoli)	SU	"Determination"	Azm Movement
Samir Jisr	North II (Tripoli)	SU	"Future for the North"	Future
Fadi Saad	North III (Batroun)	MA	"Strong Republic Pulse"	Lebanese Forces
Gebran Bassil	North III (Batroun)	MA	"Strong North"	FPM
Joseph Isaac	North III (Bcharre)	MA	"Strong Republic Pulse"	Lebanese Forces
Strida Geagea	North III (Bcharre)	MA	"Strong Republic Pulse"	Lebanese Forces
Fayez Ghosn	North III (Koura)	GO	"With Us for the North and Lebanon"	Marada
Georges Atallah	North III (Koura)	GO	"Strong North"	FPM)
Selim Saadeh	North III (Koura)	GO	"With Us for the North and Lebanon"	SSNP
Estephan Douaihy	North III (Zgharta)	MA	"With Us for the North and Lebanon"	Marada
Michel Moawad	North III (Zgharta)	MA	"Strong North"	Independence Movement
Tony Franjieh	North III (Zgharta)	MA	"With Us for the North and Lebanon"	Marada
Salim Khoury	South I (Jezzine)	GC	"Saida and Jezzine Together"	FPM
Ibrahim Azar	South I (Jezzine)	MA	"For All People"
Ziad Aswad	South I (Jezzine)	MA	"Saida and Jezzine Together"	FPM
Bahia Hariri	South I (Saida)	SU	"Integration and Dignity"	Future
Osama Saad	South I (Saida)	SU	"For All People"	PNO
Ali Khreis	South II (Tyre)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South II)	Amal
Hussein Jeshi	South II (Tyre)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South II)	Hezbollah
Inayat Ezzeddine	South II (Tyre)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South II)	Amal
Nawwaf Moussawi	South II (Tyre)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South II)	Hezbollah
Michel Moussa	South II (Zahrany)	GC	"Hope and Loyalty" (South II)	Amal
Ali Osseiran	South II (Zahrany)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South II)	Amal
Nabih Berri	South II (Zahrany)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South II)	Amal
Ali Ahmad Bazzi	South III (Bint Jbeil)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Amal
Ayoub Hmayed	South III (Bint Jbeil)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Amal
Hassan Fadlallah	South III (Bint Jbeil)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Hezbollah
Anwar Khalil	South III (Marjayoun-Hasbaya)	DR	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Amal
Assaad Hardan	South III (Marjayoun-Hasbaya)	GO	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	SSNP
Ali Hassan Khalil	South III (Marjayoun-Hasbaya)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Amal
Ali Fayyad	South III (Marjayoun-Hasbaya)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Hezbollah
Kassem Hachem	South III (Marjayoun-Hasbaya)	SU	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Amal
Hani Kobeissy	South III (Nabatieh)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Amal
Mohammad Raad	South III (Nabatieh)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Hezbollah
Yassine Jaber	South III (Nabatieh)	SH	"Hope and Loyalty" (South III)	Amal

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Future Movement
Amal
FPM
Lebanese Forces
Hezbollah
Progressive Socialist Party
Azm Movement				New
Kataeb
Marada
SSNP
Tashnaq
We are All National				New
Al-Ahbash
Independence
LDP
NDP
PNO
Union Party
Independents
Invalid/blank votes		–	–	–
Total		100	128	28
Source: Nohlen et al.

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See also

• Lebanese presidential election, 2014–2016