Bourj Hammoud electoral district
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| Bourj Hammoud | |
|---|---|
| Former constituency for the Parliament of Lebanon | |
| Governorate | Mount Lebanon |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1952 |
| Abolished | 1957 |
| Number of members | 1 (Armenian Orthodox) |
| MP | Dikran Tosbath (1953-1957) |
The Bourj Hammoud electoral district (Arabic: دائرة برج حمود) or the Eight Constituency was an electoral district in Lebanon, used in the 1953 parliamentary election. The district elected a single Armenian Orthodox parliamentarian.
The 1953 election was the first parliamentary election in Lebanon with a new electoral system which allowed candidates to win with a plurality of votes, rather than requiring a second round.[1] Female universal suffrage was introduced whilst voting was made compulsory for men, as per the November 1952 Election Law.[2] Moreover, the number of seats in the parliament was reduced from 77 to 44.[3] Most of the electoral districts now elected only a single parliamentarian, rather than the usual system in Lebanon where several parliamentarians are elected from a larger district.[2] The Eighth Constituency, Bourj Hammoud, was assigned one of the two Armenian Orthodox seats in the election (the other Armenian Orthodox seat was assigned to the Beirut I – Medawar electoral district).[2] It was one of nine constituencies in the Mount Lebanon Governorate.[4]
