1953 Lebanese general election

{{Election results

|party1=Constitutional Bloc|votes1=|seats1=3|sc1=–2

|party2=National Bloc|votes2=|seats2=3|sc2=0

|party3=Kataeb Party|votes3=|seats3=1|sc3=–2

|party4=Armenian Revolutionary Federation|votes4=|seats4=1|sc4=–1

|party5=Progressive Socialist Party|votes5=|seats5=1|sc5=–1

|party6=Armenian Democratic Liberal Party|votes6=|seats6=0|sc6=0

|party7=Independents|votes7=|seats7=35|sc7=–27

|total_sc=–33

|totalvotes=389932

|electorate=780053

|source=Nohlen et al.

}}

Reelected Candidates:

• Movses Der Kalustyan (Beirut I)
• Ghassan Tueni (Beirut II)
• Abdallah El-Yafi (Beirut III)
• Abdullah al-Hajj (Beirut IV)
• Sami Solh (Beirut IV)
• Joseph Chader (Beirut V)
• Hashem al-Husseini (Tripoli I)
• Rashid Karami (Tripoli II)
• Nasouh Agha al-Fadel (Danniyeh)
• Hamid Frangieh (Zgharta)
• Bashir al-Uthman (Akkar)
• Kamal Jumblatt (Baakleen-Joun)
• Majid Arslan (Aley)
• Emile Bustani (Deir al Qamar)
• Bashir al-Awar (Baabda)
• Pierre Eddé (Baabda)
• Emile Lahoud (Matn)
• Dikran Tosbat (Burj Hammoud)
• Maroun Kanaan (Jezzine-Maghdouche)
• Nikola Salem (Jezzine-Maghdouche)
• Ahmed Asaad (Bint Jbeil)
• Nazem Qadri (Rashaya-West Bekaa)
• Sabri Hamadeh (Hermel)

The incumbent parliamentarian Dikran Tosbath, who had won his seat in the 1951 parliamentary election as an anti-Tashnag candidate, sought re-election. He was a close associate of President Camille Chamoun. As the Tashnag Party prioritized good relations with the government they threw their support behind Tosbath. Tosbath was also supported by the National Bloc. The Hunchag-Ramgavar-Independent Group alliance opted not to contest the Bourj Hammoud seat, concentrating their efforts in the Beirut I – Medawar seat instead. Hoping to benefit from the absence of other opposition candidates in Bourj Hammoud, the Lebanese Communist Party fielded Artin Madoyan.Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934–2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 119-120, 122, 126, 129-130

4,696 out of the 15,895 registered voters (29.54%) cast their ballots on July 12, 1953. The electoral participation in Bourj Hammoud was the lowest in all of the Mount Lebanon Governorate.Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934–2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 119-120, 122, 126, 129-130 Tosbath won the election by a wide margin, obtaining 3,929 votes (83.67%) against 709 votes (15.11%) for Madoyan.{{cite book |author1=Laḥd Khāṭir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ju6AAAAIAAJ |title=الانتخابات النيابية في تاريخ لبنان |author2=ʻAbd Allāh Mallāḥ |publisher=منشورات دار لحد خاطر، |year=1996}}

The Bint Jbeil electoral district was created in 1953, as a single-member constituency.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nE-6AAAAIAAJ |title=JPRS Report: Near East & South Asia |publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service |year=1991 |edition=91013 |page=36}} In the 1953 parliamentary election the seat was won by Ahmad al-As'ad, a powerful Shia landlord. His main opponent in the election had been the nationalist candidate Ali Bazzi.{{cite book |author=Rodger Shanahan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-EumzyPj6MC&pg=PA69 |title=The Shi'a of Lebanon: Clans, Parties and Clerics |date=5 November 2005 |publisher=I.B.Tauris |isbn=978-1-85043-766-6 |pages=68–69}}

Beirut V - Minet el Hosn covered three neighbourhoods (quartiers) of the capital Beirut; Minet El Hosn, Dar Mreisse and Port and was attributed to a single Christian Minority seat.{{cite book |author=John Pierre Entelis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_bAfAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA135 |title=Pluralism and Party Transformation in Lebanon: Al-Kataʼib, 1936-1970 |publisher=BRILL |year=1974 |isbn=90-04-03911-2 |pages=135}} The district elected a single parliamentarian, belonging to Minorities.Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934–2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 119-120, 129-130, 135 The district had 13,890 registered voters. The contenders for the Beirut V seat were Joseph Chader, Edmond Rabbath, Farid Jubran, Chafic Nassif and Jemil Attié.Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934–2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 119-120, 129-130, 135 The Falangist Joseph Chader won with 2,081 votes and obtained the only seat for the Kataeb Party.{{cite web |last1=Majid |first1=Al Raeed |title=تاريخ الإنتخابات النيابية من الآستانة إلى الدوحة (14) |url=https://aliwaa.com.lb/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A1/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A2%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A9-14/ |website=Al Liwaa |access-date=25 January 2025 |language=ar}}

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