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General elections were held inLebanon in May and June 2005 to elect the 128 members of theParliament of Lebanon. They were the first elections in thirty years without aSyrian military or intelligence presence inLebanon. These elections were the first in Lebanese history to be won outright by a single electoral block and were also the first to be monitored by the United Nations.[1]
The first round was held on May 29, 2005 inBeirut. TheRafik Hariri Martyr List, a coalition ofSaad Hariri'sCurrent for the Future, theProgressive Socialist Party and other anti-Syrian parties, won all 19 seats. Saad Hariri is the son of former Lebanese Prime MinisterRafik Hariri who was assassinated in February 2005, in acar bombing in Beirut. The coalition left one seat free for a Shiite candidate from Hezbollah.
The second round was held on June 5 inSouth Lebanon andNabatyeh Governorate. The Resistance and Development Bloc, a joint ticket by the two main Shiite partiesAmal andHezbollah, in addition to Bahiya Al-Hariri, the sister of the assassinated late Prime Minister Rafic Al-Hariri and Oussama Saad from Sidon, won all 23 seats. Official tallies showed the Resistance and Development Bloc receiving more than 80% of the vote.
The third round was held on June 12 inBeqaa andMount Lebanon. In Mount Lebanon the Hariri List won 17 seats, as did the Aoun Alliance, made up ofMichel Aoun'sFree Patriotic Movement and two smaller parties; Hezbollah won one. InBeqaa, the Resistance and Development Bloc won 11 seats, the Hariri List eight, and the Aoun Alliance four. Aoun re-stamped his authority as a major Christian leader on the political scene.
The fourth and final round was held on June 20 inNorth Governorate. The Hariri List won all 28 seats, giving them a total of 72 of the National Assembly's 128 seats.
Party or alliance | Seats | |||
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March 14 Alliance | Future Movement | 36 | ||
Progressive Socialist Party | 16 | |||
Lebanese Forces | 6 | |||
Qornet Shehwan Gathering | 6 | |||
Tripoli Bloc independents | 3 | |||
Democratic Renewal (Tripoli Bloc) | 1 | |||
Democratic Left Movement (Tripoli Bloc) | 1 | |||
Total | 69 | |||
March 8 Alliance | Free Patriotic Movement | 15 | ||
Amal Movement | 14 | |||
Hezbollah | 14 | |||
Popular Bloc | 4 | |||
Armenian Revolutionary Federation | 2 | |||
Murr Bloc | 1 | |||
Syrian Social Nationalist Party | 2 | |||
Others | 5 | |||
Independents | 2 | |||
Total | 128 |
Turnout was estimated around 46.5%.
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