The Lebanese Law recognizes 18 sects, including the Jewish sect known officially as the “Israeli Sect”. According to 2017 voters’ registers, the number of registered Jewish voters is 4,778, representing 0.13% of the total registered Lebanese voters.

This reflects an increase in the number of Jewish voters as it totaled 4,557 in 2009, i.e. their number have increased by 221 voters (4.8%).

The increase is attributable to the emigration of the majority of Jews without registering their deaths. It may also have occurred because the number of Jews residing in Lebanon is higher than estimated and the Jewish immigrants are keen to register their births at Lebanese embassies abroad. 

The majority of Lebanese Jews are registered in Beirut in Mina El-Hosn neighborhood, of whom only five individuals cast their ballots in 2009 elections.

The 1972 election figures, the last election prior to the Lebanese civil war, indicate that the number of registered Jewish voters reached 3,693, of whom only 425 turned out to vote.