Women in the fifth parliamentary elections (pre-Civil War)

During the fifth parliamentary elections held from 24 March to 7 April 1968 (1)Thomas Scheffler, “Lebanon” in Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, and Christof Hartmann (ed.), Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume I: Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 183., two women ran for the elections. The first was Munira al-Solh who ran again for the same seat in Beirut (third district), but withdrew her candidacy before the elections. The second was Nuhad Sa’eed who ran again for the Maronite seat in Byblos and lost with 10,917 out of 21,813 votes(2)Lamia Shehadeh, Women and War in Lebanon, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1999, p. 32 .