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This is a list of the members of the 1st Lebanese parliament. It had 46 members. 30 of them were elected during the 1927 elections and the other 16 were added to body after the abolishment of the Senate.
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This is a list of the members of the 1st Lebanese parliament. It had 46 members. 30 of them were elected during the 1927 elections and the other 16 were added to body after the abolishment of the Senate.
| Province | Method of election | Ethnic group seat | Elected members |
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| Beirut [1] | Elected in 1927 | Greek Catholics | Salim Najjar |
| Greek Orthodox | Nakhleh Tweini | ||
| Maronite | Émile Eddé | ||
| Albert Kashou'h | |||
| Minorities | Ayoub Tabet | ||
| Sunni | Abdallah Bayhum | ||
| Cheikh Mohammad al-Kasti | |||
| Existing members of the Representative Council | Greek Orthodox | Petro Trad | |
| Maronite | Georges Tabet | ||
| Minorities | Michel Chiha | ||
| Sunni | Omar Bayhum | ||
| Omar Daouk | |||
| Beqaa | Existing members of the Representative Council | Greek Catholics | Elias Tohmeh Skaff |
| Greek Orthodox | Chibl Dammous | ||
| Maronites | Mousa Nammour | ||
| Shi'ites | Sobhi Haidar | ||
| Sabri Hamadeh | |||
| Sunnis | Hussein Qaz'oun | ||
| Mount Lebanon [2] | Elected in 1927 | Druze | Sami Arslan |
| Maronite | Habib Pacha Es-Saad | ||
| Bechara El Khoury | |||
| Shi'ite | Ahmad al-Husseini | ||
| Existing members of the Representative Council | Druze | Fouad Arslan | |
| Jamil Talhouk | |||
| Greek Orthodox | Ibrahim al-Mounzer | ||
| Maronites | Roukoz Abou Nader | ||
| Yousef al-Khazen | |||
| Najib Sa'ad | |||
| Emile Tabet | |||
| Georges Zwein | |||
| North Lebanon [3] | Elected in 1927 | Greek Orthodox | Jubran Nahhas |
| Maronite | Youssef Estephan | ||
| Existing members of the Representative Council | Greek Orthodox | Nicolas Ghossa | |
| Maronites | Mas'oud Younes | ||
| Wadih Tarabey | |||
| Sunnis | Adra Khaireddine | ||
| Abboud Abdel Razzak | |||
| South Lebanon [4] | Elected in 1927 | Shi'ite | Fadl al-Fadl |
| Hussein al-Zein | |||
| Existing members of the Representative Council | Greek Catholics | Yousef Salem | |
| Maronites | Habib Nassif | ||
| Shi'ites | Najib Oseiran | ||
| Abdullatif al-Asaad | |||
| Yousef al-Zein | |||
| Sunnis | Khaled Chehab | ||
| Tripoli [5] | Elected in 1927 | Sunni | Cheikh Mohammad al-Jisr |
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