2000 Lebanese general election

2000 Lebanese general election

27 August and 3 September 2000
All 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon
Turnout	40.52% (3.04pp)
First party Second party   Leader Rafic Hariri Nabih Berri Party Hariri Bloc Amal Movement Leader's seat Beirut Zahrani Last election 25 seats 8 seats Seats won 26 10 Seat change 1 2   Third party Fourth party   Leader Hassan Nasrallah Walid Jumblatt Party Hezbollah PSP Leader's seat None Chouf Last election 7 seats 5 seats Seats won 10 6 Seat change 3 1
Prime Minister before election Selim Hoss Independent Elected Prime Minister Rafic Hariri Independent

General elections were held in Lebanon between 27 August and 3 September 2000 to elect the 128 members of the Parliament of Lebanon. Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although most of them were considered members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 40.5%.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Hezbollah			10	+3
	Amal Movement			10	+2
	Progressive Socialist Party			6	+1
	Syrian Social Nationalist Party			4	–1
	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party			3	+1
	Kataeb Party			2	+2
	National Bloc			2	New
	Armenian Revolutionary Federation			2	0
	Social Democrat Hunchakian Party			1	0
	Armenian Democratic Liberal Party			1	+1
	Popular Nasserist Organization			1	0
	Islamic Group			0	–1
	Toilers League			0	–1
	Promise Party			0	–1
	Arab Democratic Party			0	–1
	Al-Ahbash			0	–1
	Independents			86	–8
Total				128	0
Total votes		1,112,776	–
Registered voters/turnout		2,746,528	40.52
Source: Nohlen et al.

Of the 86 independent MPs, 48 were considered to be members of various blocs:

• 26 in the Hariri bloc
• 6 in the Berri bloc (plus the ten Amal Movement MPs)
• 6 in the Jumblatt bloc (plus the six Progressive Socialist Party MPs)
• 5 in the Faranjiyyah bloc
• 3 in the Murr bloc
• 2 in the Hezbollah bloc (plus the ten Hezbollah MPs)
• 1 in the Kataeb bloc (plus the party's two MPs)