1957 Lebanese general election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in Lebanon between 9 and 23 June 1957.[1] Independent candidates, nearly all pro-president, won the majority of seats. Voter turnout was 53.2%.[2]
With the support of Lebanese President Camille Chamoun CIA money was used to support selected candidates.[3] CIA operative Wilbur Crane Eveland wrote that he would regularly drive to the Chamoun's presidential residence with "a briefcase full of Lebanese pounds" to be spent on the elections. American oil companies doing business in Lebanon also contributed funding.[4]
Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Bloc | 5 | +2 | |||
| Party of the Constitutional Union | 3 | 0 | |||
| Kataeb Party | 2 | +1 | |||
| Progressive Socialist Party | 2 | +1 | |||
| Armenian Revolutionary Federation | 2 | +1 | |||
| Syrian Social Nationalist Party | 1 | New | |||
| Independents | 51 | +16 | |||
| Total | 66 | +22 | |||
| Total votes | 446,178 | – | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 838,089 | 53.24 | |||
| Source: Nohlen et al. | |||||
Electoral districts
Bint Jbeil
There was a reform of the seat distribution of parliamentary constituencies in 1957, but Bint Jbeil remained a single-member constituency. Instead the neighbouring electoral district of Nabatieh was awarded an additional Shia seat. Ahmad al-As'ad argued that this move had been done deliberately to curtail his political influence.[5] The Bint Jbeil seat was won by Ali Bazzi in the parliamentary election.[6]
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p183 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ^ Nohlen et al., p184
- ^ Marshall, Jonathan (2012). The Lebanese Connection Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic. Stanford University Press. p. 8.
- ^ Broder, John M. (31 March 1997). "Foreign Taint on National Election? A Boomerang for U.S." The New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
- ^ Gersten Professor of Political Science Jacob M Landau; Jacob M. Landau (19 December 2013). Middle Eastern Themes: Papers in History and Politics. Routledge. p. 260. ISBN 978-1-135-15977-1.
- ^ The International Who's who of the Arab World. International Who's Who of the Arab World Ltd. 1984. p. 104. ISBN 9780950612218.
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