Israeli legislative election, 1955

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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 third 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 26 July, 1955. Voter turnout was 80.7%.

Non-qualifiers The following parties ran for election, but did not pass the electoral threshold of 1% (8,532 votes):

ke the second Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1951

Elections in Israel for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July, 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%....
, the third Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
was one of the most stable in Israel's history.

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Results

Party	Votes	% of vote	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....	274,735	32.2%	40	40
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....	107,190	12.6%	15	15
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....	87,099	10.2%	13	13
National Religious Party National Religious Party The National Religious Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel representing the Religious Zionism movement. Formed in 1956, at the time of its dissolution in 2008, it was the second oldest surviving party in the country after Agudat Yisrael, and was part of every government coalition until 1992.... ¹	77,936	9.1%	11	11
Ahdut HaAvoda 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....	69,475	8.2%	10	10
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....	62,401	7.3%	9	9
Religious Torah Front Religious Torah Front The Religious Torah Front was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel composed of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael.... ²	39,836	4.7%	6	6
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....	38,492	4.5%	6	6
Progressive Party Progressive Party (Israel) The Progressive Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	37,661	4.4%	5	5
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....	15,475	1.8%	2	2
Progress and Work Progress and Work Progress and Work was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	12,511	1.5%	2	2
Agriculture and Development Agriculture and Development Agriculture and Development was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	9,791	1.1%	1	1
Non-qualifiers Israeli legislative election, 1955 File:Elect105Ashdod55.jpgElections in Israel for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July, 1955. Voter turnout was 80.7%....	20,617	2.4%
Total	853,219	100%	120	120

¹ Originally a coalition of 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....
and 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....
that ran for the election under the name National Religious Front before changing their name to Hapoel HaMizrachi-Mizrahi and then the National Religious Party during the term of the Knesset.

² The Religious Torah Front changed their name to Agudat Israel - Agudat Israel Workers, then reverted to their original title before the next elections

Israeli legislative election, 1959

Elections in Israel for the fourth Knesset were held in Israel on 3 November, 1959. Voter turnout was 79.5%....
.

Non-qualifiers

The following parties ran for election, but did not pass the electoral threshold of 1% (8,532 votes):

Likud - Popular Economic Movement
Elderly Workers Union
New Immigrants List
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....
Sons of Yemen and Religious Nonpartisan Movement
The Arab List - The Centre
Yemenite Association
Yemenite Association

The Yemenite Association was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....

The Third Knesset

Unlike the second Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1951

Elections in Israel for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July, 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%....
, the third Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
was one of the most stable in Israel's history. There were only two governments, and it was the only Knesset to date during which none of the parties split or merged. As with the first

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 ....
and second 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....
until his death on 28 January, 1959. He was replaced by Ahdut HaAvoda's Nahum Nir

Nahum Nir

Dr Nahum Nir was a Zionism activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence . He is the only List of Knesset speakers to date not to have been a member of the ruling party....
.

Seventh government

The third 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 seventh government of Israel (the previous two Knessets had six governments; two in the first and four in the second) on 3 November 1955. His Mapai party formed a coalition with the National Religious Front (which later changed its name to the National Religious Party), Mapam, the Progressive Party

Progressive Party (Israel)

The Progressive Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
, Ahdut HaAvoda, and the three Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work, Agriculture and Development. The government had 16 ministers. It collapsed when Ben-Gurion resigned on 31 December 1957 over the leaking of information from ministerial meetings.

Eighth government

Ben-Gurion formed the eighth government a week later on 7 January 1958 with the same coalition partners. The number of ministers remained the same. The eighth government collapsed when Ben-Gurion resigned again on 5 July 1959 after Labour Unity and Mapam had voted against the government on the issue of selling arms to West Germany

West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
and refused to leave the coalition. Elections for the fourth Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1959

Elections in Israel for the fourth Knesset were held in Israel on 3 November, 1959. Voter turnout was 79.5%....
were called for 3 November 1959.

External links

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