(Includes A’aakar, Minnieh-Dinnieh, Batroun, Bcharri, Zgharta, and Tripoli)The 2009 Parliamentary elections held many unexpected surprises where prominent political figures lost their seats in the districts as was the case in Zahle where former MP and Ministry Elias Skaff lost. Similarly was the case in Zgharta with Michel Mouawad (was never an MP), in Saida with Ousama Saad and Omar Karameh in Tripoli. The elections also held surprises in Matn and Kerserwan where the differences were marginal compared to the results in the 2005 elections.
It is important to analyze the results of the elections in terms of the numbers of actual voters in each district per confession and the votes that determined the winners in addition to the effect of the emigrants who were flown in to Lebanon to cast their votes.
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(Includes Beirut district 1, 2, and 3)In May 2008, rival Lebanese leaders met in the Qatari capital of Doha in an attempt to end the political-security crisis that was gripping Lebanon by forming a new government and endorsing an electoral law for the June 7, 2009 parliamentary polls. The final shape of Beirut 1st district proved to be a major point of disagreement during deliberations. Leaders argued over its size, the number of representatives in parliament, and whether it will have a Christian weight or include Muslim regions. Following intensive “rope pulling,” they agreed on a formula under which seat of Christian minorities would be transferred to Beirut 3rd district instead of Beirut 1st district as some had been requesting.
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(Includes Aley, Baabda, Chouf, Jbeil, Keserwan, and Metn)In the Metn district, the elections acquired great significance due to the following considerations:
1- The district’s large electoral size: 8 parliament, including 4 for the Maronites, 2 for the Greek Orthodox, 1 for the Greek Catholics and 1 for the Armenian Orthodox.
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(Includes Baalbeck-Hermel, West Bekaa-Rachaya, and Zahle)The electoral race in Zahle was dubbed “mother of all battles” by most of those involved in the process because the victors in the district won parliamentary majority and those defeated lost that majority. This was further confirmed by the outcome of the June 7 polls, in which march 14 kept its majority in parliament, 71 deputies, after winning Zahle’s seven seats.
After the hard blow that was dealt to march 8 and the opposition, a series of statements and articles tried to justify the defeat and attributed it to an increase in the number of Sunni voters, including those who were naturalized and other who transferred their registries from other districts months before the elections. Defeated candidates also challenged the outcome before the constitutional council.
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(Bint Jbeil, Jezzine, Marjeyoun-Hasbaya, Nabatiyeh, Saida, Tyre, and Zahrani)The parliamentary elections in the city of Saida district gained special attention that extended beyond the electors and those involved in the district’s electoral process to reach all of Lebanon and even abroad.
The significance of the process in saida is not attributed to the number of deputies in parliament (two) but to the identities and statuses of the competing candidates (the prime minister and a minister from the pro- government forces against an MP from the opposition)
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