1951 Lebanese general election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in Lebanon on 15 April 1951, with a second round in some constituencies on 22 April.[1] Independent candidates won the majority of seats. Voter turnout was 54.7%.[2] The governing party, Constitutional Bloc, did not have a clear organization, so it is difficult to determine the number of its members who participated in this election.[3] Nonetheless, the government backed three "Constutional" lists in Mount Lebanon and had 14 of their 22 candidates elected.[4] Former Constitutionalist minister Camille Chamoun became an opposition candidate in an alliance with Kamal Jumblatt.
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Constitutional Bloc | – | N/A | |||
Kataeb Party | 3 | +3 | |||
Progressive Socialist Party | 3 | New | |||
Armenian Revolutionary Federation | 2 | 0 | |||
National Bloc | 2 | +2 | |||
Armenian Democratic Liberal Party | 0 | 0 | |||
Independents | – | +21 | |||
Total | 10 | +22 | |||
Total votes | 194,849 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 355,902 | 54.75 | |||
Source: Suleiman. |
Elected Members
List of elected members[5] | ||||
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Constituency | Elected member | Name in Arabic | List[4] | Demographic |
Beirut | Sami Solh | سامي الصلح | Solh | Sunni |
Abdallah El-Yafi | عبدالله اليافي | |||
Saeb Salam | صائب سلام | |||
Amin Beyhum | أمين بيهم | |||
Rashid Baydoun | رشيد بيضون | Shiite | ||
Ramez Sarkis | رامز سركيس | Protestant | ||
Henri Pharaoun | هنري فرعون | Greek Catholic | ||
Charles Helou | شارل حلو | Maronite | ||
Musa de Freij | موسى دي فريج | Minorities | ||
Movses Ter-Kalousdian[A] | موسيس دركالوستيان | Armenian Orthodox | ||
Melkon Hayrapetyan[A] | ملكون هيرايديان | Armenian Orthodox | ||
Habib Abu Shahla | حبيب أبو شهلا | Greek Orthodox | ||
Joseph Chader[B] | جوزيف شادر | Armenian Catholic | ||
North Lebanon I | Rashid Karami | رشيد كرامي | Karami | Sunni |
Hashem Al-Husseini | هاشم الحسيني | |||
Qabuli Zouk | قبولي الذوق | |||
Saadi Al Munla | سعدي المنلا | |||
Nasuh Al-Fadil | نصوح الفاضل | |||
Fouad Al-Bart | فؤاد البرط | Greek Orthodox | ||
North Lebanon II | Antoine Estefan | انطوان اسطفان | Karam-Estefan | Maronite |
Camille Akl[C] | كميل عقل | |||
Youssef Karam | يوسف كرم | |||
Hamid Frangieh | حميد فرنجية | Frangieh | ||
Qabalan Issa Al-Khoury | قبلان عيسى الخوري | |||
Philippe Najib Boulos | فيليب بولس | Karam-Estefan | Greek Orthodox | |
North Lebanon III | Suleiman Al-Ali | سليمان العلي | Ali | Sunni |
Bashir Al-Othman | بشير العثمان | |||
Yaqoub Al-Sarraf | يعقوب الصرّاف | Greek Orthodox | ||
Albert Al-Hajj[D] | ألبير الحاج | Maronite | ||
South Lebanon | Riad Al Solh[E] | رياض الصلح | Asaad | Sunni |
Ahmed Asaad | أحمد الأسعد | Shiite | ||
Muhammad Safieddine | محمّد صفي الدين | |||
Ali Badreddine | علي بدرالدين | |||
Muhammad Al-Fadl | محمّد الفضل | |||
Ali Bazzi | علي بزي | |||
Hussein Abdallah | حسين العبدالله | |||
Suleiman Arab | سليمان عرب | |||
Muhammad Ali Al-Azimi | محمّد علي غطيمي | |||
Maroun Kanaan | مارون كنعان | Maronite | ||
Rashad Azar | رشاد عازار | |||
Nikola Salem | نقولا سالم | Greek Catholic | ||
Suhail Shehab | سهيل شهاب | Sunni | ||
Elias Traboulsi | الياس طرابلسي | Greek Orthodox | ||
Beqaa | Sabri Hamadeh[F] | صبري حمادة | Hamadeh-Haidar | Shiite |
Ibrahim Haidar | إبراهيم حيدر | |||
Fadlallah Hamadeh | فضل الله حمادة | |||
Nazem Qadri | ناظم القادري | Sunni | ||
Rifaat Qazoun | رفعت قزعون | |||
Jean Skaff[B] | جان سكاف | Greek Catholic | ||
Habib Al-Mutran | حبيب المطران | |||
Youssef Hrawi | يوسف الهراوي | Maronite | ||
Shafiq Hanna Al-Daher | شفيق حنا الضاهر | |||
Salim Al-Daoud | سليم الداود | Druze | ||
Iskander Sursock | اسكندر سرسق | Greek Orthodox | ||
Mount Lebanon I | Emile Lahoud | اميل لحود | Constitutional | Maronite |
Elias Al-Khoury | الياس الخوري | |||
Michel Doumit | ميشال ضومط | |||
Bashir Al-Awar | بشير الأعور | Druze | ||
Fouad Al-Khoury | فؤاد الخوري | Greek Orthodox | ||
Dikran Tosbat | ديكران توسباط | Opposition | Armenian Orthodox | |
Elia Abu Joudeh | ايليا أبو جودة | Maronite | ||
Abdallah Al-Hajj[G] | عبدالله الحاج | Shiite | ||
Pierre Eddé[H] | بيار إده | National Bloc | Maronite | |
Mount Lebanon II | Emile Bustani | اميل البستاني | Chamoun-Jumblatt | Maronite |
Camille Chamoun | كميل شمعون | |||
Kamal Jumblatt[I] | كمال جنبلاط | Druze | ||
Anwar Al-Khatib[G] | أنور الخطيب | Sunni | ||
Ghassan Tueni[J] | غسّان التويني | Greek Orthdox | ||
Majid Arslan | مجيد أرسلان | Constitutional | Druze | |
Salim Al-Khoury | سليم الخوري | Maronite | ||
Bahij Takieddine | بهيج تقي الدين | Druze | ||
Philippe Takla | فيليب تقلا | Greek Catholic | ||
Mount Lebanon III | Salim Al-Khazen | سليم الخازن | Constitutional | Maronite |
George Zouein | جورج زوين | |||
Raphael Lahoud | روفائيل لحود | |||
George Karam | جورج كرم | |||
Ahmed Al-Husseini | أحمد الحسيني | Shiite |
Notes:
- ^ a b Member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
- ^ a b Member of the Kataeb Party.
- ^ Member of the Party of the National Bloc.
- ^ Member of the Kataeb Party. However, he was expelled soon after being elected.[6]
- ^ Riad Solh's name was also on the opposition list, headed by Adel Osseiran and Mutran Al-Khoury, both lost the election.
- ^ Member of the Constitutional Bloc.
- ^ a b Member of the Progressive Socialist Party.
- ^ Elected in a runoff against Pierre Gemayel, leader of the Kataeb Party and a candidate on the Opposition list. Kamal Jumblatt allegedly persuaded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party to support Eddé.
- ^ Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party.
- ^ Former member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party which he was still affiliated with until around 1958.
Results by Constituencies
All candidates that could be identified as being close to the Constitutional Bloc, whether they were actually members by 1951, are marked as "Pro-Consitutional Bloc" below. It should be noted that there were confirmed Constitutionalists at the time of the election, such as Sabri Hamadeh and Majid Arslan, though the latter of which resigned from the bloc soon after the election.
Beirut
Sunni | ||||||
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Candidates | List | Party Affiliation | Votes | Elected? | ||
Sami Solh | سامي الصلح | Solh | Pro-Constitutional Bloc | 14752 | ||
Abdallah El-Yafi | عبدالله اليافي | Pro-Constitutional Bloc | 14629 | |||
Saeb Salam | صائب سلام | Pro-Constitutional Bloc | 12808 | |||
Amin Beyhum | أمين بيهم | Unclear | 12175 | |||
Muhammad Al-Jarawi | محمّد الجاروي | Popular | Unclear | 7171 | ||
Muhyiddin Al-Nsouli | محيي الدين النصولي | Unclear | 6584 | |||
Hussein Sejaan | حسين سجعان | Unclear | 4073 | |||
Takieddin el-Solh | تقي الدين الصلح | National Call Party | 3348 | |||
Mustafa Al-Wais | مصطفى الويس | - | Unclear | 5502 | ||
Wafiq Tabbara | وفيق طبارة | Unclear | 1653 |
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
- ^ Suleiman, Michael W. (1967). Political Parties in Lebanon: The Challenge of a Fragmented Political Culture. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. p. 265.
- ^ a b Majid, Al-Raed Majid. تاريخ الإنتخابات النيابية من الآستانة إلى الدوحة (13) [History of parliamentary elections from Astana to Doha (13)]. Al Liwaa (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 25 October 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "الدور التشريعي السابع" (in Arabic). الجامعة اللبنانية مركز الابحاث والدراسات في المعلوماتية القانونية. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ^ دهام, هتاف. "هل ينجح سامي الجميّل بين تسونامي «التيار» ودلال «القوات» في 14 آذار؟". Al Binaa (in Arabic). Retrieved 4 September 2024.