[1] The elections in Beirut II passed smoothly without violent incidents, but rumours of purchasing of votes flourished.
These included Sunni Al-Hakim, the Najjadeh Party chairman; Shiite Abd al-Majid az-Zayn, a retired colonel; and minority representative Farid Jubran, who owned a Beirut auditing firm.
[1] Jubran belonged to the National Struggle Front,[4] and later became the vice chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party.
[1] The incumbent parliamentarian and former prime minister Sami as-Solh earned four thousand votes, the highest of the unsuccessful Sunnis.
[1][7] Other candidates in the fray (either Shiite or Minorities) were Yusuf Atiyah, Antoine Malaki, Shukri Qadadu, Thomas Masbarian, Jurj Abaji, and Abd al-Haim ash-Shaykh.