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

152_Women in the second parliamentary elections (pre-war) – Laure Tabet _Annahar Archives

During the second parliamentary elections held from 9 to 23 June  1957(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. , Laure Tabet ran for the Maronite seat in Beirut. She was not elected, receiving 652 votes out of 34,096(2)Lamia Shehadeh, Women and War in Lebanon, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1999, p. 32. .