Zgharta Zawie Online Magazine

This area of study includes the villages of Miriata, Kadrieh, Hilan, Haret Al Fawar, Kfarhata and Hilan. Miriata and Kadrieh are the largest and they are considered one because of no boundaries between them.

In the last four decades the number of registered (above 21 years old) and the number of voters evoluted according to the table below.

	1960	1972	1996	2000
Registered (over 21 years old	2,051	2,620	5,660	6,195
Voters	1,218	1,651	2,671	3,121
% participation	59.39%	63.02%	47.19%	50.38%

The number of registered (above 21 years old) has increased, in the four decades, by 3 times, which is more than the increase of the registered in the town of Zgharta (2 times).

	List one		List two		Caza
1	Sleiman Frangieh	1,104	Nayla Moawad	2,005	Zgharta
2	Stephane Douaihy	681	Salim Karam	1,451
3	Kaysar Moawad	880	Youssef Douaihy	1,208
4	Najib Mikati	1,407	Omar Karami	1,925	Tripoli
5	Mohamad Safadi	919	Mohamad Al Jisr	1,603
6	Mohamad Kabbara	653	Wasim Ezzedine	1,221
7	Ahmad Karami	889	Khaldoun Al Sharif	1,090
8	Abdallah Babetti	533	Sami Minkara	1,065
9	Maurice Fadel	968	Kaysar Khlat	1,152
10	Jean Obeid	1,217	Samir Frangieh	1,317
11	Ahmad Hbous	749
12	Salim Saadeh	945	Nkoula Ghosn	1,405	Koura
13	Fayez Ghosn	905	Elias Saba	1,153
14	Farid Makari	929	Joseph Shikhani	1,517
15	Boutros Harb	487	Nizar Younis	1,495	Batroun
16	Sayed Akl	684	Nabil Hokayem	1,282	Batroun
17	Saleh Kheir	843	Hashem Alamedine	1,353	Minieh

This area of study includes 13 villages: Mejdlaya, Asnoun, Karabash, Kfarsghab, Kfaryashite, Kfarzaina, Kfarhawra, Kfarshakhna, Bshennine, Daraya, Aarjes, Bnashii and Raskifa. Kfarsghab is the largest and Bshennine is the smallest and the people of the later vote in the poll station of Daraya.

The number of registered (above 21 years old) has increased in the four decades, 1.85 times, less than the rate of increase in the town of Zgharta (2 times).

	1960	1972	1996	2000
Listed (over 21 years old	5,761	6,989	9,925	10,630
Voters	1,812	2,051	2,377	2,533
% participation	31.45%	29.35%	23.95%	23.83%

The voting results for the Zgharta Zawieh candidates in that study area were as follows:

	1996		2000		% Result Variation 96/2000
Registered Voters	9925		10,630		705
Voters	2377		2,533		156
Participation %	23.95%		23.83%		-0.12%
Candidates	Total votes	% of votes	Total votes	% of votes	% Results Variation 96/2000
Sleiman Frangieh	1,863	78.38%	1,863	73.55%	-4.83%
Nayla Moawad	1,235	51.96%	1,073	42.36%	-9.60%
Stephane Douaihy	983	41.35%	1,325	52.31%	10.96%
Salim Karam	600	25.24%	697	27.52%	2.28%
Robert Boulos	521	21.92%	130	5.13%	-16.79%
Kaysar Moawad	738	31.05%	1,366	53.93%	22.88%
Youssef Douaihy			678	26.77%
Ziad Makari			171	6.75%
Samir Frangieh	228	9.59%	821	32.41%	22.82%

This area is the stronghold of Sleiman Frangieh. This the place where he installed his institution and his residence.

We take it as a sample in that area of study. The table below explains statically the voting operation in that village.

Registered	1013	voters	309	% voting	30.50%

list 1	# of votes	% of votes	list 2	# of votes	% of votes
Sleiman Frangieh	210	67.96%	Nayla Moawad	163	52.75%
Stephane Douaihy	129	41.75%	Salim Karam	104	33.66%
Kaysar Moawad	159	51.46%	Youssef Douaihy	96	31.07%

There was two major lists of candidates in the North Second Constituency. Sleiman Frangieh, Stephane Douaihy and Kaysar Moawad were on the first list; Nayla Moawad, Salim Karam and Youssef Douaihy were part of the second list. Below are the scores of the North Second Constituency candidates in the 13 towns and villages of the plain of the Caza of Zgharta Zawieh.

A Direct Study in the Legislative Elections – 2000 –

The North Second Constituency

By : Paul B.M. Duwayhi