2005 Lebanese general election

2005 Lebanese general election

29 May 2005, 5 June 2005, 12 June 2005, and 20 June 2005
All 128 seats to the Parliament of Lebanon
Turnout	46.5% 6%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Fouad Siniora Walid Jumblatt Michel Aoun Party Future Movement PSP FPM Alliance March 14 March 14 Leader's seat None Chouf Keserwan Last election – 6 seats New Party Seats won 36 16 15 Seat change New 10 15   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Hassan Nasrallah Nabih Berri Samir Geagea Party Hezbollah Amal Movement Lebanese Forces Alliance March 8 March 8 March 14 Leader's seat None Zahrani None Last election 10 seats 10 seats 0 seats Seats won 14 14 6 Seat change 4 4 6   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Amine Gemayel Nayla Moawad Party Kataeb IM Alliance March 14 March 14 Leader's seat None Zgharta Last election 2 seats 0 seats Seats won 3 3 Seat change 1 3
Prime Minister before election Najib Mikati Independent Elected Prime Minister Fouad Siniora M14th

General elections were held in Lebanon in May and June 2005 to elect the 128 members of the Parliament of Lebanon. They were the second elections in thirty years without a Syrian military or intelligence presence in Lebanon. 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.

Results

First round

The first round was held on May 29, 2005 in Beirut. The Rafik Hariri Martyr List, a coalition of Saad Hariri's Current for the Future, the Progressive Socialist Party and other anti-Syrian parties, won all 19 seats. Saad Hariri is the son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri who was assassinated in February 2005, in a car bombing in Beirut. The coalition left one seat free for a Shiite candidate from Hezbollah.

Second round

The second round was held on June 5 in South Lebanon and Nabatyeh Governorate. The Resistance and Development Bloc, a joint ticket by the two main Shiite parties Amal and Hezbollah, 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.

Third round

The third round was held on June 12 in Beqaa and Mount Lebanon. In Mount Lebanon the Hariri List won 17 seats, as did the Aoun Alliance, made up of Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement and two smaller parties; Hezbollah won one. In Beqaa, 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.

Fourth round

The fourth and final round was held on June 20 in North Governorate. The Hariri List won all 28 seats, giving them a total of 72 of the National Assembly's 128 seats.

Total

Party or alliance				Seats
	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

Turnout was estimated around 46.5%.

See also

• List of members of the 2005–2009 Lebanese Parliament

External links

• Angus Reid Consultants - Election Tracker
• Documentary photography project on Lebanon during the time leading up to the 2005 elections by Austrian Photojournalist Stephan Rauch