2005 Lebanese general election

Lebanese parliamentary election 2005 Lebanese general election Lebanon parliamentary no 2000 Lebanese general election 2000 Members of the 2005–2009 Lebanese Parliament 2009 Lebanese general election 2009 All 128 seats to the Parliament of Lebanon 46.5% 6% 29 May 2005, 5 June 2005, 12 June 2005, and 20 June 2005 130x130px 3682D8 Fouad Sinora (cropped).jpg Fouad Siniora March 14 Future Movement None – 36 New CC050F Walid Jumblatt ca 2006.jpg Walid Jumblatt March 14 PSP Chouf 6 seats 16 10 ED9121 2005 07 22 rice aoun meeting 600 (cropped).jpg Michel Aoun FPM Keserwan New Party 15 15 F7DF19 Hassan Nasrallah meets Khamenei in visit to Iran (3 8405110291 L600).jpg Hassan Nasrallah March 8 Hezbollah None 10 seats 14 4 008000 Nabih Berri.jpg Nabih Berri March 8 Amal Movement Zahrani 10 seats 14 4 F0001C Samir Geagea 7 (cropped).jpg Samir Geagea March 14 Lebanese Forces None 0 seats 6 6 138808 Amine Gemayel.jpg Amine Gemayel March 14 Kataeb None 2 seats 3 1 DA2125 Presidente nayla.jpg Nayla Moawad March 14 IM Zgharta 0 seats 3 3 Prime Minister Najib Mikati Independent (politician) Fouad Siniora March 14 Alliance General elections were held in Lebanon in May and June 2005 to elect the 128 members of the Parliament of Lebanon. They were the first 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.United Nations, October 26, 2005 S/2005/673 Letter dated 26 October 2005 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council Accessed August 5, 2006 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 March 14 Alliance 8 Future Movement 36 Progressive Socialist Party 16 Lebanese Forces 6 Qornet Shehwan Gathering 6 Kataeb Party Tripoli Bloc independents 3 blue Democratic Renewal (Tripoli Bloc) 1 #0246AC Democratic Left Movement (Tripoli Bloc) 1 y 69 March 8 Alliance 9 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 57 y Independents 2 File:Parliament of Lebanon, 2005.svg Summary of the 29 May – 20 June 2005 Lebanese National Assembly election results |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" |Alliances ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" |Parties ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats |- |rowspan=7 style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;"|March 14 Alliance |rowspan=7 style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" |69 | style="text-align:left;" |Future Movement (Tayyar Al Mustaqbal) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |36 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Progressive Socialist Party (Hizb al-Taqadummi al-Ishtiraki) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |16 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Lebanese Forces (al-Quwāt al-Lubnāniyya) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |6 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Qornet Shehwan Gathering Phalangist or Kataeb Party (Hizb al-Kataeb) Independents | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |6 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Independents (Tripoli Bloc) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |3 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Renewal (Tripoli Bloc) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |1 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Left (Tripoli Bloc) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |1 |- |rowspan=7 style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;"|March 8 Alliance |rowspan=7 style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;"|57 | style="text-align:left;" |Hope Movement (Harakat Amal) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |14 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Hezbollah | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |14 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Syrian Social Nationalist Party (al-Hizb al-Qawmi al-souri al ijtima'i) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |2 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Others | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |5 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Free Patriotic Movement (Tayyar Al-Watani Al-Horr) | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |15 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Skaff Bloc | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |4 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Armenian Revolutionary Federafion | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |2 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Murr Bloc | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |1 |- |rowspan=1 style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;"|Independents |rowspan=1 style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;"|2 | style="text-align:left;" |Independents | style="text-align:right;" |  | | style="text-align:right;" |2 |- !style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total ! ! ! style="text-align:right;" |128 |} Turnout Turnout was estimated around 46.5%. See also List of members of the 2005–2009 Lebanese Parliament Notes 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 Category:Elections in Lebanon Lebanon Category:2005 in Lebanon Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:May 2005 in Lebanon Category:June 2005 in Lebanon