"Overall, our statistics show an opposition win by two or three seats."

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"The fight will be fierce, but all polls since last summer show the opposition winning by a slight margin," said Abdo Saad, head of the Beirut Centre for Research and Information. "Overall, our statistics show an opposition win by two or three seats."...

Nearly 11,000 government employees, who will be involved in overseeing the poll, cast their ballots amid tight security on Thursday....

"In mixed districts, like Zahle, a confession that brings in more expats to vote on election day could swing the scale," pollster Kamal Feghali told AFP. He said the redrawing of constituency boundaries, agreed last year after a drawn out political crisis that brought the country to the brink of civil war, had played in the favour of Hezbollah and its allies.

Rabih Habre, the head of Statistics Lebanon, said he expected a tight race and a high turnout. "I think we will see the opposition win by two or three seats," he told AFP..."

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