It is expected that the number of registered voters for the elections in 2009 will reach 3,234,110 voters* distributed between 1,948,100 Muslim voters i.e. 60.24% of the voters and 1,286,010 Christian voters represent 39.76% of the voters. In case of the reduction of the voting age to 18 years old, the number of total voters would go up to 3,460,570 voters with Muslim voters representing 61.16% and Christian voters 38.84%.

Hence, the number of Muslim voters would increase by 168,300 i.e. 8.64%, while the number of Christian voters would increase by 58,160 voters i.e. 4.52%. There would be no major difference between the large confessions and within each category of Muslims and Christians, knowing that the percentage of increase in the Sunni community (8.71%) is very close to the percentage of increase in the Shia’a community (8.90%).

Among Christian communities, the increase is 4.92% for Maronites, 4.34% for Greek Orthodox and 4.38% for Greek Catholics. The increase is 12.64% for the A’alawi community, but it drops to 6.46% for the Druze community and to even less for other small Christian communities.