title: 1968 Lebanese general election
text: # 1968 Lebanese general election
  
  General elections were held in Lebanon between 24 March and 7 April 1968. Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although many of them were considered to be members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 49.6%. Politically the election was a confrontation between the mainly christian Tripartite Alliance and Chehabists candidates.
  
  ## Background
  
  According to the 1960 constitution, the 99 seats were divided amongst ethnic and religious groups:
  
  | Group | Seats |
  | - | - |
  | Maronite Christians | 30 |
  | Sunni Muslims | 20 |
  | Shi'ite Muslims | 19 |
  | Greek Orthodox | 11 |
  | Druze | 6 |
  | Greek Catholics | 6 |
  | Armenian Orthodox | 4 |
  | Protestants | 1 |
  | Armenian Catholics | 1 |
  | Other | 1 |
  
  ## Results
  
  | Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Kataeb Party | | | 9 | +5 |
  | | National Liberal Party | | | 8 | +1 |
  | | National Bloc | | | 6 | +3 |
  | | Progressive Socialist Party | | | 5 | –1 |
  | | Armenian Revolutionary Federation | | | 4 | 0 |
  | | Party of the Constitutional Union | | | 3 | –2 |
  | | Najjadeh Party | | | 1 | +1 |
  | | National Action Movement | | | 1 | New |
  | | Independents | | | 62 | –8 |
  | Total | Total | | | 99 | 0 |
  | Total votes | Total votes | 614,280 | – | | |
  | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 1,239,199 | 49.57 | | |
  | Source: Nohlen et al. ||||||
  
  ## Electoral districts
  
  ### Marjeyoun-Hasbaya
  
  The district has 4 seats allocated to 2 Shiites, 1 Sunni and 1 Greek Orthodox Christian. There were eleven candidates in the fray, with ten candidates contesting on three different tickets. The eleventh candidate contested on his own. The fight stood primarily between two tickets, each headed by a candidate from the al-As'ad family (a powerful Shiite family in the area).
  
  