Bint Jbeil electoral district

The Ministry of Interior and Municipalities reported in 2011 that the constituency had 127,925 registered voters and the following religious composition: 88.11 percent Shia Muslims, 9.31 percent Maronites and 2.41 percent Greek Catholics.^[1]

The Bint Jbeil electoral district was created in 1953, as a single-member constituency.^[2] 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.^[3]

There was a reform of the seat distribution of parliamentary constituencies in 1957, but Bint Jbeil remained a single-member constituency. Instead the neighbouring electoral district of Nabatieh was awarded an additional Shia seat. Ahmad al-As'ad argued that this move had been done deliberately to curtail his political influence.^[4] The Bint Jbeil seat was won by Ali Bazzi in the 1957 parliamentary election.^[5]

The 1960 Election Law adopted a set-up of electoral districts largely based on the Qadas. As per the 1960 Law the Bint Jbeil electoral district elected two Shia Members of Parliament and was estimated to have had 28,043 Shia Muslim registered voters, 4,463 Maronites, 1,791 Greek Catholics, 96 Sunni Muslims and 68 Minorities.^[6] In the 1960 parliamentary election Ahmed al-As'ad (now leading the Sha'ab party) and Sa'id Fawaz (42-year-old former government official) were elected from Bint Jbeil.^[6] Al-As'ad's candidature had been supported by Fouad Chehab.^[7] Ahmad al-As'ad died in March 1961. A by-election was held in April the same year in which his son Kamil al-As'ad was elected. Kamil al-As'ad became the leader of the Southern Bloc in parliament and was named Minister of Education and Fine Arts in the cabinet of Rashid Karami.^[8]

In the 1964 parliamentary election the Bint Jbeil seats were won by Abdellatif Beydoun and Abdallah Ghneimeh.^[9]

In the 1968 parliamentary election the candidates on the list supported by Adel Osseiran won the seats in Bint Jbeil.^[10] Sa'id Fawaz returned to parliament, accompanied by the physician Ibrahim Cheaito.^[11] Out of the 31,034 registered voters, 17,793 participated in the election.^[11]

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Won?
Sa'id Fawaz	Democratic Parliamentary Front	8,613	48.41%
Ibrahim Cheaito	Democratic Parliamentary Front	8,077	45.39%
Abdellatif Beydoun		7,714	43.35%
Ali Abbas Khalil		6,387	35.90%
Husayn Muruwwah	Lebanese Communist Party[2]	1,446	8.13%
Ahmad Majid		1,013	5.69%
Ghassan Shararah	Ba'athist[12]	786	4.42%
Abdallah al-Ghutaymi		715	4.02%

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In the 1972 parliamentary election Abdellatif Beydoun and Hamid Dakroub were elected from Bint Jbeil.^[14]

Candidate	Party	Votes	Won?
Abdellatif Beydoun		10,710
Hamid Dakroub		9,912
Ali Bazzi		7,977
Nazem Khalil		3,229
Ahmad Murad	Lebanese Communist Party[2]	3,160
Ali Yusuf	Ba'athist[2]	1,422
Abdallah al-Ghutaymi		1,245

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Abdellatif Beydoun died in 1984. In 1991 Abdallah Al Amin was appointed to replace him as parliamentarian of Bint Jbeil.^[15] Al-Amin was the regional secretary of the Arab Socialist Baath Party.^[2]

A new set-up of constituencies was used ahead of the 1992 general election, abolishing the 1960 Election Law constituencies.^[16] However, the 2008 Doha Agreement instituted a set-up of electoral districts similar to those of the 1960 Election Law.^[17] Thus the Bint Jbeil electoral district was recreated ahead of the 2009 parliamentary election.^[16] The electoral district now elected three Shia Members of Parliament.^[1]