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  • Presidential
    2014
  • Parliamentary
    2017

Lebanon

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Michel SULAYMAN
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Najib MIQATI
  • 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.
  • The Prime Minister is appointed by the president with the approval of the parliament.
  • 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: 4,140,289 (July 2011 est.)

Future elections

  • Parliamentary - 2017
  • Presidential - 2014

Past elections

Last Updated on 06/20/2012

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