Английская Википедия:Beirut V – Minet El Hosn electoral district
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox constituency Beirut V – Minet El Hosn was an electoral district in Lebanon, used in the 1953 parliamentary election. The electoral district covered three neighbourhoods of Beirut and elected a Minorities parliamentarian. Joseph Chader of the Kataeb Party was elected from the district in 1953.
New election law
The 1953 election was the first parliamentary election in Lebanon with a new electoral system which allowed candidates to win with a plurality of votes, rather than requiring a second round.[1] Female universal suffrage was introduced whilst voting was made compulsory for men, as per the November 1952 Election Law.[2] Moreover, the number of seats in the parliament was reduced from 77 to 44.[3] Most of the electoral districts now elected only a single parliamentarian, rather than the usual system in Lebanon where several parliamentarians are elected from a larger district.[2] The November 1952 Election Law had also abolished the separate seat for Armenian Catholics.[2]
Beirut V - Minet el Hosn covered three neighbourhoods (quartiers) of the capital Beirut; Minet El Hosn, Dar Mreisse and Port.[4] The district elected a single parliamentarian, belonging to Minorities.[2] The district had 13,890 registered voters.[2]
Candidates in 1953 election
The contenders for the Beirut V seat were Joseph Chader, Edmond Rabbath, Farid Jubran, Chafic Nassif and Jemil Attié.[2]
Joseph Chader
Chader was the vice chairman of the Kataeb Party.[2] He had won the Armenian Catholic seat in the 1951 parliamentary election.[2] As the Kataeb Party had suffered a backlash in the 1951 election, it only fielded two candidates in 1953, Chader and Maurice Gemayel in Beirut II (Achrafieh-Rmeil-Saifi).[4] Chader had the support from a large part of the Jewish community, which tended to support the Kataeb Party.[2]
Edmond Rabbath
Rabbath was the candidate of the National Call Party.[4] Born in Aleppo and educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, he had been one of the architects of the 1928 Syrian constitution.[5][6] He was a prominent Syrian nationalist.[5][6] Rabbath had been a leading figure in the National Bloc in Syria in the 1930s.[7] Before the 1953 election he had become a Lebanese citizen.[6] His candidature was supported by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni.[2]
Chafic Nassif
Nassif had been one of the founders of the Kataeb Party. But he left the party and became a follower of Camille Chamoun. He was a lawyer by profession.[8]
Farid Jubran
Jubran, a Latin Catholic, was one of the co-founders of the Progressive Socialist Party.[9][10]
Voting
Chader won the seat, obtaining 2,081 votes (40.9%). Rabbath got 1,922 votes (37.8%), Nassif 1,097 votes (21.6%), Jubran 646 votes (12.7%) and Attié 55 votes (1.1%).[2] 41.8% of the registered voters cast their votes.[2]
In the subsequent 1957 parliamentary election, multi-member electoral districts were reintroduced. The neighbourhoods of the 1953 Beirut V district were included in the Muslim-dominated second district of Beirut.[2]
References
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 2,00 2,01 2,02 2,03 2,04 2,05 2,06 2,07 2,08 2,09 2,10 2,11 2,12 Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934–2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 119-120, 129-130, 135
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 Шаблон:Cite book
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