Country Profile:

Lebanon

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President MIchel SULAYMAN
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Fouad SINIORA
  • Assembly: Lebanon has a unicameral National Assembly (Majlis al-Nuwab) with 128 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by the National Assembly to serve a 6-year term.
  • In the National Assembly (Majlis al-Nuwab) 128 members are elected by plurality vote in multi-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms.***

*** The electoral system is multiple non-transferable vote (aka block vote) with confessional quotas. There is no standard ballot, and this has important consequences for electoral behavior in Lebanon. For details on apportionment and confessional seats, see the 2009 IFES briefing under "Links."

Population:

  • Population: 4,017,095 (July 2009 est.)

Past elections

Last Updated on 08/17/2005