Women in the fourth parliamentary elections (pre-Civil War)
Date of Mouvement:
January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1964
During the fourth parliamentary elections held from 5 April to 3 May 1964(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.. The first was Ibriza al-Meoushi, who ran for a seat in the Shouf district, but later withdrew her candidacy. The second was Munira al-Solh who ran again for the Sunni seat in Beirut and lost with 999 out of 29,584 votes(2)Lamia Shehadeh, Women and War in Lebanon, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1999, p. 32..