| Election Name: | 2018 Lebanese general election |
| Country: | Lebanon |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | No |
| Previous Election: | 2009 Lebanese general election |
| Previous Year: | 2009 |
| Outgoing Members: | List of members of the 2009–2017 Lebanese Parliament |
| Elected Members: | List of members of the twenty-third Parliament of Lebanon |
| Next Election: | 2022 Lebanese general election in Beirut I |
| Next Year: | 2022 |
| Seats For Election: | 8 seats to the Parliament of Lebanon |
| Election Date: | 6 May 2018 |
| Turnout: | 32.46% |
| Colour1: | ED9121 |
| Leader1: | Gebran Bassil |
| Leaders Seat1: | Batroun |
| Seats1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 18,373 |
| Percentage1: | 42.08% |
| Colour2: | F0001C |
| Leader2: | Samir Geagea |
| Leaders Seat2: | Did not stand |
| Seats2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 8,530 |
| Percentage2: | 19.076% |
| Leader3: | Samy Gemayel |
| Party3: | Kataeb |
| Leaders Seat3: | Metn |
| Popular Vote3: | 4,096 |
| Seats3: | 1 |
| Percentage3: | 9.38% |
| Party Colour: | yes |
Voting to elect eight members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Beirut I district (one of two electoral districts in the city) on 6 May 2018, part of the general election of that year. The constituency had 134,355 (2018) registered voters,[1] [2] out of whom 43,353 voted.
As per the new Vote Law adopted by parliament on June 16, 2017, the electoral districts of Beirut were reorganized. The old Beirut I district merged with the Medawar quartier (previously in Beirut II), the new district retaining the name 'Beirut I'.[3] [4] The new Beirut I district received the two Armenian Orthodox seats of the former Beirut II district, whilst the Minorities seat was shifted from the Muslim-domonated Beirut III district to the new Beirut I district.
The Eastern first Beirut electoral district covers 4 quartiers (neighbourhoods) of the Lebanese capital: Achrafieh, Saifi, Rmeil and Medawar.[5] The area is predominantly Christian; the largest community in the Beirut I electorate are Armenian Orthodox (28.33%).[6] [7] 19.2% are Greek Orthodox, 13.19% Maronite, 9.8% Greek Catholic, 9.76% Sunni, 5.57% Armenian Catholic, 3.95% Syriac Catholic, 3% Latin Catholics, 1.97% other Minorities groups, 2.88% Evangelicals, 1.99% Shia and 0.37% Druze or Alawite.
Ahead of the 2018 Lebanese general election, 5 lists were registered in the Beirut I electoral district.[8] After the split between the Future Movement and the Lebanese Forces, a joint list of the Free Patriotic Movement, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Tashnaq) and the Hunchaks was conceived ("Strong Beirut I") supported by the Future Movement.[9] The Future Movement itself, however, stayed aloof from fielding candidates.[10] The Lebanese Forces, together with the Kataeb Party, Ramgavars and Michel Pharaon, and with support from Antoun Sehnaoui, fielded their list under the label "Beirut I".[9] [11] Michelle Tueni fielded a third list, "We Are Beirut", being joined by incumbent Future MP Serge Torsarkissian.
For the Minorities seat the FPM fielded a Syriac Orthodox candidate, former Brigadier General Antoine Pano, whilst the Tueni list included Latin Catholic candidate Rafic Bazerji, an independent from a family historically close to the National Liberal Party.[12] [13]
| List | Armenian Orthodox, 3 seats | Maronite, 1 seat | Greek Orthodox, 1 seat | Greek Catholic, 1 seat | Armenian Catholic, 1 seat | Minorities, 1 seat | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left, style="background-color:#ffa568" | "Strong Beirut I" | (Tashnaq)[14] | (Tashnaq) | Sebouh Kalpakian | Massoud Achkar (Union for Lebanon)[16] | Nicolas Chammas | Serg Gukhadarian(Tashnaq) | (FPM) | ||
| align=left, style="background-color:#ff6868" | "Beirut I" | Carole Babikian | Avedis Datsian(Ramgavar) | Alina Kaloussian(Ramgavar) | (Lebanese Forces)[19] | Michel Pharaon | Riad Akel(Lebanese Forces) | |||
| align=left, style="background-color:#68d0d8" | "Kulluna Watani" | (Sabaa) | Laury Haytayan (LiBaladi) | Levon Telvizian(LiBaladi) | Gilbert Doumit(LiBaladi) | Ziad Abs (Sah) | Lucien Bourjeily | Yorgui Teyrouz(LiBaladi) | Joumana Haddad(LiBaladi) | |
| align=left, style="background-color:#6868c7" | "We are Beirut" | Seybou Makhjian | Georges Sfeir | Michelle Tueni | Serge Torsarkissian | Rafic Bazerji | ||||
| align=left, style="background-color:#87c3a5" | "Loyalty to Beirut" | Roger Choueiri | Robert Obeid | Antoune Qalaijian | Gina Chammas | |||||
| ACE Project, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities[20] | ||||||||||