1972 Lebanese general election in Beirut III

none Voting to elect five members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Beirut III district (one of three electoral districts in the city) in 1972, as part of the national general election of that year. Beirut III, consisting of the predominantly Muslim part of the city, had 4 Sunni Muslim seats and 1 Greek Orthodox seat (for more information about the Lebanese election system, see Elections in Lebanon).Zuwiyya, Jalal. The Parliamentary Election of Lebanon 1968. Leiden: Brill, 1972. pp. 13, 20-23Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Merkaz le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Reʼuven Shiloaḥ, and Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah. Middle East Record. Tel Aviv: Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center, 1960. pp. 350-351 The election in Beirut III was fiercely contested, with small margins between winning and losing sides.Daniel Corstange The Price of a Vote in the Middle East https://books.google.com/books?id=fY-5DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA79 September 2016 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10667-3 79 Two lists of candidates were in the fray in Beirut III, a list led by incumbent Prime Minister of Lebanon Saeb Salam and a list led by former Prime Minister Abdallah El-Yafi. There were also a number of independent candidates. The election of Nasserist politician Najah Wakim, a leader of the Union of Working People's Forces, for the Greek Orthodox seat was one of the big surprises of the 1972 election.The War for Lebanon, 1970-1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=2PbLcYdLUgsC&pg=PA82 1985 Cornell University Press 0-8014-9313-7 82–83 He did not run on any of the major lists, but Wakim unseated the veteran Greek Orthodox politician Nasim Majdalani. The Greek Orthodox community held a demonstration protesting against Wakim's election, arguing that he had been elected by Sunni voters.Farid El-Khazen Farīd al- H̲azīn The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976 https://books.google.com/books?id=TQdheeeXQCgC&pg=PA198 2000 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-08105-5 198 Results CandidateListVotesSectElected?Saeb SalamSalam18,425SunniZaki MazboudiSalam16,489SunniNajah Wakim Independent 16,033 Greek OrthodoxJamil KibbiSalam13,300SunniUthman ad-DanaEl-Yafi12,872SunniUsama al-FakhuriEl-Yafi12,264SunniShafik WazzanSalam12,086SunniNasim MajdalaniSalam11,031Greek OrthodoxMu'in HamudIndependent9,492 SunniMuhammad ItaniEl-Yafi9,081SunniAbdallah El-YafiEl-Yafi8,734SunniRoger AssiEl-Yafi7,503Greek OrthodoxHassan SaabIndependent5,217 Sunni Basim al-Jisr Independent 4,165 Sunni Michael Johnson Class & Client in Beirut: The Sunni Muslim Community and the Lebanese State, 1840-1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=sl9tAAAAMAAJ 1986 Ithaca Press 978-0-86372-062-8 163 In addition to the candidates in the table above, there were eight Sunni and three Greek Orthodox candidates that each received less than 4,000 votes. References Lebanon Politics 2 Category:Elections in Lebanon Category:1970s in Beirut Category:1972 elections in Asia