1973 Israeli legislative election

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1973 Israeli legislative election
Israel
← 1969 31 December 1973 1977 →
Turnout78.6%
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Alignment Golda Meir 39.6% 51 −5
Likud Menachem Begin 30.2% 39 +7
Mafdal Yosef Burg 8.3% 10 −2
Religious Torah Front Shlomo Lorincz 3.8% 5 −1
Independent Liberals Moshe Kol 3.6% 4 0
scope="row" style="border-left: 4px solid Template:Maki (political party)/meta/color;" | Rakah Meir Vilner 3.4% 4 +1
Ratz Shulamit Aloni 2.2% 3 New
Progress and Development Seif el-Din el-Zoubi 1.4% 2 0
Moked Meir Pa'il 1.4% 1 0
Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers Hamad Abu Rabia 1.0% 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Golda Meir
Alignment		 Golda Meir
Alignment

Legislative elections were held in Israel on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 78.6%.[1] The election was postponed for two months because of the Yom Kippur War.

Parliament factions

For a more comprehensive list, see List of political parties in Israel.

The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 7th Knesset.

Name Ideology Symbol Leader 1969 result Seats at 1972
dissolution
Votes (%) Seats
style="background:Template:Alignment (Israel)/meta/color;"| Alignment Social Democracy
Labor Zionism 		Template:Hebrew Golda Meir 46.2%
56 / 120
56 / 120
style="background:Template:Gahal/meta/color;"| Gahal National conservatism
National liberalism 		Template:Hebrew Menachem Begin 21.7%
26 / 120
26 / 120
style="background:Template:National Religious Party/meta/color;"| Mafdal Religious Zionism Template:Hebrew Yosef Burg 9.7%
12 / 120
12 / 120
style="background:Template:Agudat Yisrael/meta/color;"| Agudat Yisrael Religious conservatism Template:Hebrew Yehuda Meir Abramowicz 3.2%
4 / 120
4 / 120
style="background:Template:Independent Liberals (Israel)/meta/color;"| Independent Liberals Liberalism Template:Hebrew Moshe Kol 3.2%
4 / 120
4 / 120
style="background:Template:National List/meta/color;"| National List Social liberalism Template:Hebrew Yigal Hurvitz 3.1%
4 / 120
4 / 120
style="background:Template:Maki (political party)/meta/color;"| Rakah Communism
Socialism 		Template:Hebrew Meir Vilner 2.8%
3 / 120
3 / 120
Progress and Development Arab satellite list Template:Hebrew Seif el-Din el-Zoubi 2.1%
2 / 120
2 / 120
style="background:Template:Poalei Agudat Yisrael/meta/color;"| Poalei Agudat Yisrael Religious conservatism Template:Hebrew Kalman Kahana 1.9%
2 / 120
2 / 120
Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers Arab satellite list Template:Hebrew Hamad Abu Rabia 1.4%
2 / 120
2 / 120
style="background:Template:Meri (political party)/meta/color;"| Meri Socialism Template:Hebrew Uri Avnery 1.2%
2 / 120
2 / 120
style="background:Template:Free Centre/meta/color;"| Free Centre Liberalism Template:Hebrew Shmuel Tamir 1.2%
2 / 120
2 / 120
style="background:Template:Maki (historical political party)/meta/color;"| Maki Communism Template:Hebrew Moshe Sneh 1.1%
1 / 120
1 / 120

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/−
Alignment 621,183 39.6 51 −5
Likud 473,309 30.2 39 +7
National Religious Party 130,349 8.3 10 −2
Religious Torah Front 60,012 3.8 5 −1
Independent Liberals 56,560 3.6 4 0
Rakah 53,353 3.4 4 +1
Ratz 35,023 2.2 3 New
Progress and Development 22,604 1.4 2 0
Moked 22,147 1.4 1 0
Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers 16,408 1.0 1 New
Black Panthers 13,332 0.9 0 New
The League List 12,811 0.8 0 New
Meri 10,469 0.7 0 −1
Movement for Social Equality 10,202 0.7 0 New
Cooperation and Brotherhood 9,949 0.6 0 −2
Blue White Panthers 5,945 0.4 0 New
Brotherhood Movement 4,433 0.3 0 New
Israeli Arab List 3,269 0.2 0 New
Yemenite List 3,195 0.2 0 New
Socialist Revolution List 1,201 0.1 0 New
Popular Movement 1,101 0.1 0 New
Invalid/blank votes 34,243 – – –
Total 1,601,098 100 120 0
Source: Nohlen et al.

Aftermath

See also: List of members of the eighth Knesset

Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the sixteenth government on 10 March 1974, including the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals in her coalition, with 22 ministers. Meir resigned on 11 April 1974 after the Agranat Commission had published its interim report on the Yom Kippur War.

The Alignment's Yitzhak Rabin formed the seventeenth government on 3 June 1974, including Ratz, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers. The new government had 19 ministers. The National Religious Party joined the coalition on 30 October and Ratz left on the 6 November, by which time there were 21 ministers.

The government resigned on 22 December 1976, after ministers of the National Religious Party were sacked because the party had abstained from voting on a motion of no confidence, which had been brought by Agudat Yisrael over a breach of the Sabbath on an Israeli Air Force base.

During the Knesset term there were several defections from parties; In 1975 Aryeh Eliav left the Alignment and merged with Ratz to form Ya'ad - Civil Rights Movement. The new party broke up the following year when Eliav and Marcia Freedman left to set up the Independent Socialist Faction, whilst Shulamit Aloni and Boaz Moav returned to Ratz. In 1975 Benjamin Halevi left Likud to sit as an independent, whilst Shmuel Tamir and Akiva Nof left Likud to form the Free Centre the following year.[2] In 1977 Hillel Seidel defected from the Independent Liberals to Likud, whilst Mordechai Ben-Porat broke away from the Alignment and sat as an independent.[2]

In February 1974 Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers merged into the Alignment (with which they were already associated), but both later broke away and then formed the United Arab List in 1977. In the build-up to the 1977 elections the Religious Torah Front broke up into Agudat Yisrael (three seats) and Poalei Agudat Yisrael in March 1977. On 10 April Mapam broke away from the Alignment, but rejoined it two days later.[2]

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p125 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  2. ^ a b c Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups Knesset

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