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Voting to elect eight members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Beirut I district (one of three electoral districts in the city) on March 24, 1968, part of the national general election of that year.〔 The constituency had 98,439 eligible voters, out of whom 28,631 voted (29.59 percent, the lowest turn-out of all constituencies).〔Zuwiyya, Jalal. ''(The Parliamentary Election of Lebanon 1968 )''. Leiden: Brill, 1972. p. 100〕〔Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Merkaz le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Reʼuven Shiloaḥ, and Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah. ''(Middle East Record )''. Tel Aviv: Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center, 1968. pp. 637〕 The elections in Beirut I passed smoothly without violent incidents.〔 In Beirut I, which comprised the Christian parts of the city, had 3 Armenian Orthodox seats, 1 Armenian Catholic seat, 1 Greek Catholic seat, 1 Greek Orthodox seat, 1 Maronite seat and 1 Protestant seat (for more information about the Lebanese election system, see Elections in Lebanon).〔〔Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Merkaz le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Reʼuven Shiloaḥ, and Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah. ''(Middle East Record )''. Tel Aviv: Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center, 1960. pp. 350-351〕 Two tickets competed against each other in the Beirut I constituency. One list was headed by the Kataeb Party chairman Pierre Gemayel and the other was head by Michel Georges Sassine. There were also four candidates outside of the two tickets.〔Zuwiyya, Jalal. ''(The Parliamentary Election of Lebanon 1968 )''. Leiden: Brill, 1972. pp. 13-17〕 The Gemayel ticket won six of the eight seats, whilst the Sassine ticket won two.〔 The Kataeb Party ran a sophisticated and well-organized election campaign.〔Entelis, John P. ''(Pluralism and Party Transformation in Lebanon. Al-Kataʼib, 1936-1970 )''. Leiden: Brill, 1974. p. 147〕 However considering that Beirut I was a stronghold of the Kataeb, it had been expected that Gemayel's candidates won win all the seats up for grabs. Instead two sitting parliamentarians on the Gemayel ticket were defeated. Possibly the fact that Armenian candidates were elected unopposed led to lower participation from Armenian voters (whose Armenian Revolutionary Federation was an ally of Kataeb), weakening the position of the Gemayel ticket.〔 ==Armenian Orthodox seats== Gemayel's ticket had three Armenian Orthodox candidates, all of them were elected unopposed.〔 The three were affiliated to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and were all incumbent parliamentarians; the 72-year-old Movses Der Kaloustian (the oldest parliamentarian in Lebanon at the time), Khatchig Babikian (lawyer and former minister) and Souren Khanamirian (businessman).〔〔Migliorino, Nicola. ''((Re)Constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria: Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis )''. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. p. 151〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lebanese general election, 1968 in Beirut I」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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