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Party	Votes	% of vote	Seats at start of session	Seats at end of session
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	Topics Israeli legislative election, 1969 Topic Home Elections 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 seventh 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 28 October, 1969. Voter turnout was 77.8%. le class="wikitable" style="text-align:center">
Alignment Alignment (political party) The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party.... ¹	632,135	46.2%	56	57
Gahal Gahal Gahal was the major Right wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel from its founding in 1965 until it merged into Likud in 1973....	296,294	21.7%	26	26
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.... ²	133,294	9.7%	12	11
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....	44,002	3.2%	4	4
Independent Liberals Independent Liberals (Israel) The Independent Liberals were a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and are one of the ancestors of the modern-day Labor Party ....	43,933	3.2%	4	4
National List National List The National List , sometimes translated as the State List, was a List of political parties in Israel. Despite being founded by David Ben-Gurion, one of the fathers of the Israeli left, the party is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud, Israel's largest right-wing bloc.... ¹	42,654	3.1%	4	3
Rakah	38,827	2.8%	3	3
Progress and Development Progress and Development Progress and Development was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	28,046	2.1%	2	2
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 ....	24,968	1.9%	2	2
Cooperation and Brotherhood Cooperation and Brotherhood Cooperation and Brotherhood was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	19.943	1.4%	2	2
HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash ³	16,853	1.2%	2	0
Free Centre Free Centre The Free Centre was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud....	16,393	1.2%	2	2
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....	13,617	1.1%	1	1
Non-qualifiers Israeli legislative election, 1969 Elections in Israel for the seventh Knesset were held in Israel on 28 October, 1969. Voter turnout was 77.8%....	16,884	1.2%
Total	1,367,743	100%	120	120

Meri Meri (political party) Meri was a short-lived small Left wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Its name also means Rebellion.... ³
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Avner Shaki Avner Shaki Avner-Hai Shaki was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister in the late 1980s and early 1990s.... ²
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Shalom Cohen ³
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¹ Meir Avizohar defected from the National List to the Alignment

² Shaki left the National Religious Party and remained a single MK

³ After HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash split up, Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery , is a Germany-born Israeli journalist, Left-wing politics Israeli peace camp, and former Knesset member, who during his teenager was a member of the Right-wing politics Revisionist Zionism movement....
started Meri, whilst Shalom Cohen remained a single MK.

1969 election is notable for the fact that the Alignment were returned to power with the largest number of seats ever won in an Israeli election (57 of the 120).

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Elections
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 seventh 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 28 October, 1969. Voter turnout was 77.8%.

Results

Party	Votes	% of vote	Seats at start of session	Seats at end of session
Alignment Alignment (political party) The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party.... ¹	632,135	46.2%	56	57
Gahal Gahal Gahal was the major Right wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel from its founding in 1965 until it merged into Likud in 1973....	296,294	21.7%	26	26
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.... ²	133,294	9.7%	12	11
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....	44,002	3.2%	4	4
Independent Liberals Independent Liberals (Israel) The Independent Liberals were a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and are one of the ancestors of the modern-day Labor Party ....	43,933	3.2%	4	4
National List National List The National List , sometimes translated as the State List, was a List of political parties in Israel. Despite being founded by David Ben-Gurion, one of the fathers of the Israeli left, the party is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud, Israel's largest right-wing bloc.... ¹	42,654	3.1%	4	3
Rakah	38,827	2.8%	3	3
Progress and Development Progress and Development Progress and Development was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	28,046	2.1%	2	2
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 ....	24,968	1.9%	2	2
Cooperation and Brotherhood Cooperation and Brotherhood Cooperation and Brotherhood was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	19.943	1.4%	2	2
HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash ³	16,853	1.2%	2	0
Free Centre Free Centre The Free Centre was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud....	16,393	1.2%	2	2
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....	13,617	1.1%	1	1
Non-qualifiers Israeli legislative election, 1969 Elections in Israel for the seventh Knesset were held in Israel on 28 October, 1969. Voter turnout was 77.8%....	16,884	1.2%
Total	1,367,743	100%	120	120

Meri Meri (political party) Meri was a short-lived small Left wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Its name also means Rebellion.... ³
0	1
Avner Shaki Avner Shaki Avner-Hai Shaki was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister in the late 1980s and early 1990s.... ²
0	1
Shalom Cohen ³
0	1

¹ Meir Avizohar defected from the National List to the Alignment

² Shaki left the National Religious Party and remained a single MK

³ After HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash split up, Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery

The election

The 1969 election is notable for the fact that the Alignment were returned to power with the largest number of seats ever won in an Israeli election (57 of the 120). This can be put down to the government's popularity following the country's victory in the Six Day War, as well as the fact that the Alignment were formed from a merger of the four most popular left-wing parties who between them had taken 51.2% of the vote in the previous election

Israeli legislative election, 1965

Elections in Israel for the sixth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November, 1965. Voter turnout was 80.4%....
.

It was also the last election with such a decisive majority for the left-wing in Israel, as the disastrous Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to October 26, 1973 by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel....
shortly before the next elections

Israeli legislative election, 1973

The Elections in Israel for the eighth Knesset were held on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 76.9%...
seriously damaged the Alignment's credibility, with their majority over Gahal reduced to just 12 seats.

The Seventh Knesset

Golda Meir

Golda Meir was the fourth prime minister of the Israel.Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on 17 March 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister....
of the Alignment formed the fifteenth government, a national unity government

National government

A national government is a broad coalition government consisting of all parties in the legislature, usually formed during a time of war or other national emergency....
including Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood. There were 24 ministers.

Gahal resigned from the coalition on 6 August 1970 after the government had decided to adopt the Rogers Plan

Rogers plan

The Rogers Plan was a framework proposed by United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers to achieve an end to belligerence in the Arab-Israeli conflict following the Six-Day War and the continuing War of Attrition....
.

The seventh Knesset was one of the most stable, with only one new party created (and that itself was virtually a rename of an existing party) and four MKs changing parties.

External links

Knesset website