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Sassine's
Protestant candidate was Charles Sa'ad; 66 years old and parliamentarian since 1960. Sa'ad was a member of the Democratic Front. A third Protestant candidate was Yetvart Lushkhajian, an Armenian Protestant businessman vying for public office for the first time. Ishaq obtained 15,997 votes,
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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. 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
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The
Sassine ticket had no Maronite candidate. However, the reign of the Kataeb strongman Pierre Gemayel was challenged by independent candidate Salim Wakim. Wakim, 35 years old, had tried to contest the 1964 elections as well but had only mustered nine votes at the time. This time Pierre Gemayel
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In the Greek
Orthodox seat Michel Georges Sassine confronted Fu'ad Butrus (an independent politician, lawyer by profession, incumbent parliamentarian and former minister contesting on the Gemayel ticket) and Joseph Lahoud of the National Liberal Party. Sassine was a prominent businessman who had
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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),
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from the
Sassine ticket and the independent candidate Sami Zuryaq. The prominent businessman Sahnawi, an incumbent parliamentarian since 1960 and former Minister of Post Office, was a member of the Democratic Front. Nasri Maalouf was a lawyer and journalist, and had previously served as
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was elected unopposed in the
Armenian Catholic seat. A lawyer by profession, Chader was member of parliament since 1951 and vice chairman of the Kataeb Party. He contested the election as a candidate on the Gemayel ticket.
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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
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tried to run for parliament in 1960. He was not affiliated with any political party. Sassine obtained 14,821 votes against 13,744 for Butrus and 1,116 for Lahoud.
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graduate. An unknown name in politics, Ishaq had been nominated by the
Political Bureau of the Kataeb Party just five weeks before the election.
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440:Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Merkaz le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Reʼuven Shiloaḥ, and Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah.
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The candidate of the
Gemayel ticket for the Protestant seat was the Kataeb Party member Samir Ishaq; a young businessman and
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Two tickets competed against each other in the Beirut I constituency. One list was headed by the
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parliamentarian and minister. He was technically an independent, but closely linked to the
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The Greek Catholic seat saw a clash between Antoine Sahnawi from the Gemayel ticket,
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Voting to elect eight members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the
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was an ally of Kataeb), weakening the position of the Gemayel ticket.
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In Beirut I, which comprised the Christian parts of the city, had 3
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seat (for more information about the Lebanese election system, see
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received 24,835 votes against 1,344 votes for Salim Wakim.
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followed by 11,302 for Sa'ad and 664 for Lushkhajian.
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