Israeli legislative election, 1951

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Israeli legislative election, 1951

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Elections in Israel

Israel elects its national legislature, the Knesset, by proportional representation on a national list basis. The Knesset has 120 members, elected for terms of four years....
for the second Knesset were held in Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
on 30 July, 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%.

Results

¹ Rostam Bastuni

Rostam Bastuni

Rostam Bastuni was an Israeli politician and journalist, and the first Israeli Arab to represent a Zionism party in the Knesset....
, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh

Moshe Sneh

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Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats at start of session	Seats at end of session
Mapai Mapai Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968.... ¹	256,456	37.3%	45	47
General Zionists General Zionists The General Zionists were centrism within the Zionism movement and a List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Their political arm is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud and Kadima parties.... ²	111,394	16.2%	20	22
Mapam Mapam Mapam was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz-Yachad party.... ¹	86,095	12.5%	15	7
Hapoel HaMizrachi Hapoel HaMizrachi Hapoel HaMizrachi was a List of political parties in Israel and Settlement movement in Israel and is one of the predecessors of the modern-day National Religious Party....	46,347	6.8%	8	8
Herut Herut Herut was the major Right wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel from the 1940s until its formal merger into Likud in 1988, and an adherent to Revisionist Zionism....	45,651	6.6%	8	8
Maki Maki (historical political party) Maki was a Communist party List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It is not the same party as the modern day Maki , which split from it during the 1960s and later assumed its name.... ¹	27,334	4.0%	5	7
Progressive Party Progressive Party (Israel) The Progressive Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	22,171	3.2%	4	4
Democratic List for Israeli Arabs Democratic List for Israeli Arabs The Democratic List for Israeli Arabs was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	16,370	2.0%	3	3
Agudat Israel Agudat Israel Agudat Israel began as the original political party representing Haredi Judaism in Israel. It was the umbrella party for almost all Haredi Jews in Israel, and before that in the British Mandate of Palestine....	13,799	2.0%	3	3
Sephardim and Oriental Communities Sephardim and Oriental Communities Sephardim and Oriental Communities was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud party.... ²	12,002	1.8%	2	0
Agudat Israel Workers Agudat Israel Workers Agudat Israel Workers was a political party in Poland, and a political party and settlement movement in Israel. It was also known as PAI or PAGI, its Hebrew acronym ....	11,194	1.6%	2	2
Mizrachi Mizrachi (political party) Mizrachi was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day National Religious Party....	10,383	1.5%	2	2
Progress and Work Progress and Work Progress and Work was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	8,067	1.2%	1	1
Yemenite Association Yemenite Association The Yemenite Association was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	7,965	1.2%	1	1
Agriculture and Development Agriculture and Development Agriculture and Development was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	7,851	1.1%	1	1
Non-qualifiers Israeli legislative election, 1951 Elections in Israel for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July, 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%....	4,413	0.6%
Total valid votes	687,492	100%	120	120

Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion Ahdut HaAvoda Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party.... ³
0	4
Left Faction Left Faction The Left Faction was a short-lived List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ¹
0	0
Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda The Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda was a short-lived List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ¹
0	0

¹ Rostam Bastuni

Rostam Bastuni

Rostam Bastuni was an Israeli politician and journalist, and the first Israeli Arab to represent a Zionism party in the Knesset....
, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh

Moshe Sneh

Moshe Sneh was an Israeli politician and military figure. One of the founders of Mapam, he later joined the Maki , and was one of the leaders of a more pro-Israeli split in 1965....
left Mapam and set up the Left Faction. Bastuni later returned to Mapam whilst Berman and Sneh joined Maki. Hannah Lamdan and David Livschitz left Mapam and set up the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda before joining Mapai.

² Sephardim and Oriental Communities joined the General Zionists

³ Broke away from Mapam, but not recognised as a separate party by the speaker

Non-qualifiers

The following parties ran in the election, but did not pass the electoral threshold

Election threshold

In party-list proportional representation systems, an election threshold is a clause that stipulates that a party must receive a minimum percentage of votes, either nationally or within a particular district, to get any seats in the parliament....
of 1% (6,874 votes):

For New Immigrants and Freed Soldiers
Sepharadim-Ashkenazim Unity

The Second Knesset

The second Knesset was highly unstable, with four separate governments and two different Prime Ministers

Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
. As with the first Knesset, the speaker was Yosef Sprinzak

Yosef Sprinzak

Yosef Sprinzak was a leading Zionism activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first List of Knesset speakers, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959....
.

Third government

The second Knesset started with David Ben-Gurion

David Ben-Gurion

was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel....
forming the third government of Israel (the first Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1949

Elections in Israel for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly-independent Israel on 25 January, 1949. Voter turnout was 85.8%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February, 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset ....
had two governments) on 8 October 1951. His Mapai party formed a coalition with Mizrachi, Hapoel HaMizrachi, Agudat Israel, Agudat Israel Workers and the three Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development. Like the first Knesset, there were 15 ministers. The government resigned on 19 December, 1952 due to a dispute with the religious parties over religious education

Religious education

In secular usage, religious education is the teaching of a particular religion and its varied aspects —its beliefs, doctrines, rituals, customs, rites, and personal roles....
.

Fourth government

Ben-Gurion formed the fourth government on 24 December 1952, dropping the ultra-orthodox

Haredi Judaism

Haredi or Chareidi Judaism is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi ....
parties (Agudat Israel and Agudat Israel Workers) and replacing them with the General Zionists and the Progressive Party. The new government had 16 ministers. Ben-Gurion resigned on 6 December 1953 as he wished to settle in the Negev

Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The indigenous Negev Bedouin inhabitants of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab ....
kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
of Sde Boker

Sde Boker

Sde Boker is a kibbutz in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Best known as the retirement home of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council....
.

Fifth government

Moshe Sharett

Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms....
formed the fifth government on 26 January 1954 with the same coalition partners and ministers. Sharett resigned on 29 June 1955, when the General Zionists refused to abstain from voting on a motion of no-confidence

Motion of no confidence

A motion of no confidence is a parliamentary motion traditionally put before a parliament by the parliamentary opposition in the hope of defeating or weakening a Executive , or, rarely by an erstwhile supporter who has lost confidence in the government....
brought by Herut and Maki over the government's position on the trial of Malchiel Gruenwald

Malchiel Gruenwald

Malchiel Gruenwald was an Israeli hotelier, amateur journalist and stamp collector, who came to public attention in 1953, when he accused an Israeli government employee, Rudolf Kastner, of having collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust....
, who had accused Rudolf Kastner

Rudolf Kastner

Rudolf Rezso Israel Kastner was the de facto head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest known as the Va'adat Ezrah Vehatzalah , or Aid and Rescue Committee, during the Nazism occupation of Hungary in World War II....
of collaborating with the Nazis.

Sixth government

Sharett formed the sixth government on 29 June 1955, eliminating the General Zionists and the Progressive Party from the coalition and reducing the number of ministers to 12. The new government did not last long, as a general election was called for 26 July, 1955.

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