Beirut V – Minet El Hosn was an electoral district in Lebanon, used in the 1953 parliamentary election.
The electoral district covered three neighbourhoods of Beirut and elected a Minorities parliamentarian.
[1] Female universal suffrage was introduced whilst voting was made compulsory for men, as per the November 1952 Election Law.
[2] The November 1952 Election Law had also abolished the separate seat for Armenian Catholics.
[2] The contenders for the Beirut V seat were Joseph Chader, Edmond Rabbath, Farid Jubran, Chafic Nassif and Jemil Attié.
[2] As the Kataeb Party had suffered a backlash in the 1951 election, it only fielded two candidates in 1953, Chader and Maurice Gemayel in Beirut II (Achrafieh-Rmeil-Saifi).