Israeli legislative election, 1973

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Israeli legislative election, 1973

The 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 eighth Knesset were held on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 76.9%

Results

¹ Aryeh Eliav

Aryeh Eliav

Aryeh "Lova" Eliav is an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset for several left-wing parties....
left the Alignment and merged with Ratz to form Ya'ad - Civil Rights Movement.

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Results

Party	Votes	%	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 4 5 6}	621,183	39.6%	51	49
Likud Likud Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties.... ²	473,309	30.2%	39	40
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....	130,349	8.3%	10	10
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.... ³	60,012	3.8%	5	0
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 .... ²	56,560	3.6%	4	3
Rakah	53,353	3.4%	4	4
Ratz ¹	35,023	2.2%	3	2
Progress and Development Progress and Development Progress and Development was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ⁴	22,604	1.4%	2	0
Moked Moked Moked was a Left wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	22,147	1.4%	1	1
Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers The Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers was an Israeli Arab List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ⁴	16,408	1.0%	1	0
Total	1,566,855	100%	120	120

United Arab List ⁴
0	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.... ³
0	3
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 .... ³
0	2
Independent Socialist Faction Independent Socialist Faction The Independent Socialist Faction was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ¹
0	2
Mordechai Ben-Porat Mordechai Ben-Porat Mordechai Ben-Porat is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister without Portfolio from July 1982 until January 1984. During his four terms in the Knesset, he represented five different parties.... ⁵
0	1
Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement Ya'ad ? Civil Rights Movement , commonly known as just Ya'ad, was a short-lived List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It is not related to the other party by the name of Ya'ad which existed during the Israeli legislative election, 1977.... ¹
0	0
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.... ⁶
0	0

¹ Aryeh Eliav

Aryeh Eliav

Aryeh "Lova" Eliav is an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset for several left-wing parties....
left the Alignment and merged with Ratz to form Ya'ad - Civil Rights Movement. The new party later broke up when Eliav and Marcia Freedman

Marcia Freedman

Marcia Freedman is an United States-Israelis Activism on behalf of Israeli peace camp, women's rights, and LGBT social movements. In the early 1970s she helped create and lead the feminist movement in Israel....
left to set up the Independent Socialist Faction, whilst Shulamit Aloni

Shulamit Aloni

Shulamit Aloni is an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Education Minister of Israel from 1992 to 1993....
and Boaz Moav returned to Ratz.

² Hillel Seidel defected from the Independent Liberals to Likud.

³ The Religious Torah Front broke up into Agudat Israel and Agudat Israel Workers.

⁴ Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers merged into the Alignment (with which they were already associated) before breaking away to form the United Arab List.

⁵ Mordechai Ben-Porat broke away from the Alignment and remained a single MK.

⁶ Mapam broke away from the Alignment but rejoined it soon after.

Non-qualifiers

The following parties ran in the election, but did not cross the 1% (12,424 votes) 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....
:

Kach
Kach and Kahane Chai

Kach was a far right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Kahanism ideology, the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures....

The Eighth 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 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

Agranat Commission

The Agranat Commission was an official National Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Israeli government to investigate the circumstances leading to the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War....
had published its interim report on the 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....
.

The Alignment's Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin

was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
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

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....
, which had been brought by 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....
over a breach of the Sabbath

Shabbat

Shabbat or Shabbos , is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night....
on an Israeli Air Force

Israeli Air Force

The Israeli Air Force is the air force of the Israel Defense Forces. The current Commander in Chief is Aluf Ido Nehoshtan. The Israeli Air Force has approximately 700 aircraft....
base.

External links

Knesset website