1992 Lebanese general election

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23 August–11 October 1992

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All 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon

Turnout

30.35% (

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	First party	Second party	Third party
		SSN
Leader	Hassan Nasrallah		Walid Jumblatt
Party	Hezbollah	SSNP	PSP
Seats before	New	0	5
Seats won	8	6	5
Seat change	New	6

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party
		JAI	ASB
Leader	Nabih Berri		Abdullah Al Amin
Party	Amal	Islamic Group	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region
Seats before	New	New	1
Seats won	5	3	2
Seat change	New	New	1

Prime Minister before election

Rachid Solh
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Rafic Hariri
Independent

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General elections were held in Lebanon between 23 August and 11 October 1992, the first since 1972. Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although most of them were considered members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 30.3%.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Hezbollah			8	New
	Syrian Social Nationalist Party			6	+6
	Progressive Socialist Party			5	0
	Amal Movement			5	New
	Islamic Group			3	New
	Arab Democratic Party			1	New
	Al-Ahbash			1	New
	Toilers League			1	New
	Popular Nasserist Organization			1	New
	Promise Party			1	New
	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party			2	+1
	Armenian Revolutionary Federation			1	0
	Social Democrat Hunchakian Party			1	+1
	Armenian Democratic Liberal Party			0	0
	Independents			92	+29
Total				128	+29

Total votes		723,291	–
Registered voters/turnout		2,383,345	30.35
Source: Nohlen et al.

Of the 92 independent MPs, 68 were considered to be members of various blocs:

12 in the Berri bloc (plus the five Amal Movement MPs)
11 in the Hrawi bloc
10 in the Salim el-Hoss bloc
9 in the Karami bloc
6 in the Frangieh bloc
5 in the Jumblatt bloc (plus the five Progressive Socialist Party MPs)
4 in the Hezbollah bloc (plus the eight Hezbollah MPs)
4 in the Murr bloc
3 in the Hariri bloc
3 in the Armenian Revolutionary Federation bloc (plus one MP from the party)
1 in the Hubayqa bloc (plus the Promise Party MP)

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
Nohlen et al., p190 ISBN 0-19-924958-X

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