The Iran-backed Shia Muslim Hezbollah movement and its allies have lost their majority in Lebanon's parliament, results from Sunday's election show.
The bloc's candidates won 62 of the 128 seats, three fewer than it needed.
Hezbollah retained its own seats, but President Michel Aoun's Christian Free Patriotic Movement lost support.
A rival Christian party with close ties to Saudi Arabia, the Lebanese Forces, made gains and independent candidates promising reforms won 13 seats.
But the lack of an outright winner and Lebanon's rigid power-sharing political structure means that the chance of significant change is still low.
The election was the first held since a 2019 nationwide uprising against a political elite widely seen as corrupt and ineffective.
The mass protests were sparked by the start of one of the worst economic depressions the world has seen in more than 150 years. An estimated 80% of Lebanon's population now live in poverty, and there have been severe shortages of food, fuel and medicines.
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