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Voting to elect eight members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Beirut I district (one of two electoral districts in the city) on 6 May 2018, part of the general election of that year. The constituency had 134,355 (2018) registered voters, [1] [2] out of whom 43,353 voted.
As per the new Vote Law adopted by parliament on June 16, 2017, the electoral districts of Beirut were reorganized. The old Beirut I district merged with the Medawar quartier (previously in Beirut II), the new district retaining the name 'Beirut I'. [3] [4] The new Beirut I district received the two Armenian Orthodox seats of the former Beirut II district, whilst the Minorities seat was shifted from the Muslim-domonated Beirut III district to the new Beirut I district. [3] [4]
The Eastern first Beirut electoral district covers 4 quartiers (neighbourhoods) of the Lebanese capital: Achrafieh, Saifi, Rmeil and Medawar. [5] The area is predominantly Christian; the largest community in the Beirut I electorate are Armenian Orthodox (28.33%). [6] [7] 19.2% are Greek Orthodox, 13.19% Maronite, 9.8% Greek Catholic, 9.76% Sunni, 5.57% Armenian Catholic, 3.95% Syriac Catholic, 3% Latin Catholics, 1.97% other Minorities groups, 2.88% Evangelicals, 1.99% Shia and 0.37% Druze or Alawite. [6] [7]
Ahead of the 2018 Lebanese general election, 5 lists were registered in the Beirut I electoral district. [8] After the split between the Future Movement and the Lebanese Forces, a joint list of the Free Patriotic Movement, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Tashnaq) and the Hunchaks was conceived ("Strong Beirut I") supported by the Future Movement. [9] The Future Movement itself, however, stayed aloof from fielding candidates. [10] The Lebanese Forces, together with the Kataeb Party, Ramgavars and Michel Pharaon, and with support from Antoun Sehnaoui, fielded their list under the label "Beirut I". [9] [11] Michelle Tueni fielded a third list, "We Are Beirut", being joined by incumbent Future MP Serge Torsarkissian. [10]
For the Minorities seat the FPM fielded a Syriac Orthodox candidate, former Brigadier General Antoine Pano, whilst the Tueni list included Latin Catholic candidate Rafic Bazerji, an independent from a family historically close to the National Liberal Party. [12] [13]
| List | Armenian Orthodox, 3 seats | Maronite, 1 seat | Greek Orthodox, 1 seat | Greek Catholic, 1 seat | Armenian Catholic, 1 seat | Minorities, 1 seat | |||
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| "Strong Beirut I" | Hakop Terzian 3,451 (7.90%) | Alexander Matossian 2,376 (5.44%) | Sebouh Kalpakian | Massoud Achkar (Union for Lebanon) [16] | Nicolas Chammas | Nicolas Sehnaoui 4,788 (10.7%) | Serg Gukhadarian | Antoine Pano 539 (1.23%) | |
| "Beirut I" | Carole Babikian | Avedis Datsian | Alina Kaloussian | Nadim Gemayel 4,096 (9.38%) | Emad Wakim 3,936 (9.01%) | Michel Pharaon | Jean Talouzian 4,166 (9.54%) | Riad Akel | |
| "Kulluna Watani" | Paula Yacoubian 2,500 (5.73%) | Laury Haytayan (LiBaladi) [9] | Levon Telvizian (LiBaladi) [9] | Gilbert Doumit (LiBaladi) [9] | Ziad Abs (Sah) [9] | Lucien Bourjeily | Yorgui Teyrouz (LiBaladi) [9] | Joumana Haddad (LiBaladi) [9] | |
| "We are Beirut" | Seybou Makhjian | Georges Sfeir | Michelle Tueni | Serge Torsarkissian | Rafic Bazerji | ||||
| "Loyalty to Beirut" | Roger Choueiri | Robert Obeid | Antoune Qalaijian | Gina Chammas | |||||
| ACE Project, [5] Ministry of Interior and Municipalities [20] | |||||||||
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