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Interior Ministry reports voter turnout at 5 p.m.


Interior Ministry reports voter turnout at 5 p.m.

Representatives of candidates sit inside a polling station during the parliamentary elections, in Tripoli, North Lebanon on Sunday. (Credit: Omar Ibrahim/Reuters)

BEIRUT – At 5 p.m., 32.04 percent of Lebanese across the country had cast their vote in ongoing parliamentary elections, the Interior Ministry reported. Polls are due to close at 7 p.m.

Here’s what we know:

    • This breakdown of the turnout so far is:

             - Beirut I: 26.53 percent

             - Beirut II: 28.21 percent

             - Mount Lebanon I (Kesrouan-Jbeil): 44.71 percent

             - Mount Lebanon II (Metn): 33.48 percent

             - Mount Lebanon III (Baabda): 29.70 percent

             - Mount Lebanon IV (Chouf-Aley): 35.77 percent

             - Lebanon-South I (Saida-Jezzine): 32.45 percent

             - South Lebanon II (Sour): 31.72 percent

             - South Lebanon III (Hasbaya-Marjayoun-Nabatieh-Bint Jbeil): 32.98 percent

             - North Lebanon I (Akkar): 26.80 percent

             - North Lebanon II (Minyeh-Dennieh-Tripoli): 22.09 percent

             - North Lebanon III (Zgharta-Besharri-Koura-Batroun): 31.70 percent

             - Bekaa I (Zahle): 31.20 percent

             - Bekaa II (Rashaya-Bekaa West): 26 percent

             - Bekaa III (Baalbeck-Hermel): 39.83 percent

    • Voter turnout increased across Lebanon an hour and a half before the polls closed, the state-run National News Agency reported, specifying that the voting process in Beirut I continues smoothly without registration incidents or conflicts, and the voter turnout is increasing as the day progresses, amid a competition between the participating parties and enthusiastic songs outside the centers. The turnout rate in some of the Greek Orthodox voter stations reached more than 36 percent, according to the NNA.

    • In the district of Nabatieh, the participation rate reached 45 percent, as 66,000 voters out of 159,446 voted, with an expected increase in turnout before the polls close at seven, according to the NNA.

    • The total number of voters in Sour amounted to 127,504, making the percentage of 39 percent, the NNA reported.

BEIRUT – At 5 p.m., 32.04 percent of Lebanese across the country had cast their vote in ongoing parliamentary elections, the Interior Ministry reported. Polls are due to close at 7 p.m.Here’s what we know:    • This breakdown of the turnout so far is:             - Beirut I: 26.53 percent             - Beirut...