Next Lebanese general election

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2017

All 128 seats to the Parliament of Lebanon
65 seats needed for a majority


Leader	Saad Hariri	Gebran Bassil	Nabih Berri
Party	Future Movement	Free Patriotic Movement	Amal Movement
Alliance	March 14	March 8	March 8
Leader's seat	Beirut 3	None	Tebnine
Last election	26 seats, 20.31%	19 seats, 14.84%	13 seats, 10.16%
Current seats	26	19	13


Leader	Hassan Nasrallah	Samir Geagea	Walid Jumblatt
Party	Hezbollah	Lebanese Forces	Progressive Socialist Party
Alliance	March 8	March 14	None
Leader's seat	None	None	Chouf
Last election	12 seats, 9.37%	8 seats, 6.25%	7 seats, 5.46%
Current seats	12	8	7

Incumbent Prime Minister

Saad Hariri
Future Movement

General elections were supposed to be held in Lebanon in 2014. However, the failure of Parliament in electing a new President, two thirds of the body extended its own term until 2017.

Following the last election, it took several months to form a new government. Saad Hariri eventually became prime minister in a March 14 government. About a year later, Walid Jumblatt's PSP broke away from the March 14 alliance and withdrew its ministers. Jumblatt then traveled to Syria for the first time in decades and met President Bashar al-Assad. After the government fell over the issue of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a new government was formed by Najib Mikati that consisted of March 8 alliance parties, as well as the PSP.

Over the course of the Syrian civil war, fissures started to grow in Lebanon as March 14 parties supported the opposition in Syria and March 8 parties were ostensibly supportive of the Syrian government, particularly in the early stages, and faced accusation from the opposition and its affiliated media of kowtowing to the Syrian government. As the conflict started to spill over into Lebanon, both via refugees and Lebanon's own diverse demographics that are broadly reflective of Syria's own diversity, tensions started to grow. A spate of sectarian kidnappings and threats followed, some of which turned fatal.

On 22 March 2013, Mikati resigned citing a negative climate over the appointment of a committee to oversee the election and the extension of Internal Security Forces (ISF) head Ashraf Rifi, who was expected to retire in April. On 5 April, a new March 14-backed consensus candidate for prime minister was announced, Tammam Salam.

The 128 members of parliament will be elected from 26 multi-member constituencies. Voters cast as many votes as seats in their constituency. The candidates with the highest number of votes within each religious community are elected. Expatriate voting will be possible after the government approved a law allowing voter registration outside the country.

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