Israeli legislative election, 1992

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Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth 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 23 June, 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by 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....
's Labour Party, though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross 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....
and thus effectively wasting votes for the right. Voter turnout was 76.8%.

Non-qualifiers The following parties ran for election, but did not pass the 1.5% electoral threshold

Election threshold

Yitzhak Rabin

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Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel

Israel

Yitzhak Rabin

Election threshold

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats at start of session	Seats at end of session
Labour Labor (Israel) The Israeli Labor Party , generally known in Israel as Avoda is a center-left political party in Israel. It is a social democracy and Labor Zionism party, a member of the Socialist International and an observer member of the Party of European Socialists.... ¹	906,810	34.7%	44	41
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	651,229	24.9%	32	29
Meretz Meretz-Yachad The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics....	250,667	9.6%	12	12
Tzomet Tzomet Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ³	166,366	6.4%	8	5
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....	129,663	5.0%	6	6
Shas Shas Shas is a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, primarily representing Haredi Judaism Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews Judaism. Following the Israeli legislative election, 2006 in which Shas won 12 seats, it joined Ehud Olmert's coalition government and holds four cabinet posts.... ⁴	129,347	4.9%	6	5
United Torah Judaism United Torah Judaism United Torah Judaism is an Political alliance of Degel HaTorah and Agudat Israel, two small Israeli Haredi Judaism Politics of Israel in the Knesset.... ⁵	86,167	3.3%	4	0
Hadash Hadash Hadash is a far-left List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Hadash defines itself as a 'Jewish-Arab Party'. Most of its voters and leaders are Israeli Arabs....	62,545	2.4%	3	3
Moledet Moledet Moledet is a small right-wing political party in Israel. It advocates the notion of voluntary population transfer of the Arab population of the West Bank.... ⁶	62,269	2.4%	3	1
Arab Democratic Party Arab Democratic Party (Israel) The Arab Democratic Party commonly known in Israel by its Hebrew acroynym Mada was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Since the late 1990s it has been a faction within the United Arab List....	40,788	1.6%	2	2
Non-qualifiers Israeli legislative election, 1992 Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June, 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party , though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the Election threshold and thus effectively wasting votes for the right....	130,990	5.0%	0	0
Total	2,616,841	100%	120	120

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.... ⁵			0	2
Degel HaTorah Degel HaTorah Degel HaTorah is an Ashkenazi Jews Haredi Judaism List of political parties in Israel in Israel. For much of its existence it has been allied to Agudat Israel under the name United Torah Judaism.... ⁵			0	2
The Third Way Third Way (Israel) The Third Way was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel in the 1990s.... ¹			0	2
Gesher ²			0	2
Atid Atid (political party) Atid was a short-lived List of political parties in Israel in the mid-1990s. It is not related to the modern Atid Ehad party.... ³			0	2
Yiud Yiud Yiud was a small, short-lived List of political parties in Israel in Israel in the mid-1990s.... ³			0	1
Yamin Israel Yamin Israel Yamin Israel was a minor right-wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ⁶			0	1
Yosef Azran ⁴			0	1
Efraim Gur ²			0	1
Nava Arad ¹			0	1
Yosef Bagad ⁶			0	1

¹ The Third Way and Nava Arad broke away from Labour

² Gesher and Efraim Gur broke away from Likud

³ Yiud broke away from Tzomet, then Atid broke away from Yiud

⁴ Yosef Azran left Shas

⁵ United Torah Judaism split into Agudat Israel and Degel HaTorah

⁶ Yamin Israel and Yosef Bagad broke away from Moldet

Non-qualifiers

The following parties ran for election, but did not pass the 1.5% electoral threshold

Election threshold

Da
Da (political party)

Da was a minor Israeli political party founded by immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s....
(11,697 votes - 0.4%)
Geulat Israel
Geulat Israel

Geulat Israel was a short-lived Haredi Judaism List of political parties in Israel in Israel in the early 1990s....
New Liberal Party
New Liberal Party (Israel)

The New Liberal Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel in the early 1990s....
Progressive List for Peace
Progressive List for Peace

The Progressive List for Peace was an Israeli political party formed from an alliance of both Arab and Jewish left-wing activists.Two candidates were successfully elected to the Israeli_legislative_election%2C_1984 Knesset in 1984: Mohammed Miari and Mattityahu Peled....
Tehiya
Tehiya

Tehiya , originally known as Banai , then Tehiya-Bnai , was a small Right wing politics political party in Israel that existed from 1979 until 1992....
Torah and Country

The Thirteenth Knesset

Labour'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 25th government on 13 July, 1992, including Meretz and Shas in his coalition, which had 17 ministers. Hadash and the Arab Democratic Party also supported the government despite not being coalition members. Shas left the coalition in September 1993, and Yiud joined in January 1995.

Rabin's government advanced the peace process to unprecedented levels; the Oslo Accords

Oslo Accords

The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles was a milestone in the Palestinian - Israeli conflict....
were signed with Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat

Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini , popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his Kunya Abu Ammar , was a Palestinian people leader....
's PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization

The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization regarded by the Arab League since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."...
in 1993 and the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace

Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace

File:Hussein Clinton Rabin.jpgThe Israel?Jordan Treaty of Peace is a peace treaty signed in 1994. The treaty normalized relations between the two countries and resolved territorial disputes between them....
in 1994. The government's willingness to make peace with Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
and concede the Golan Heights

Golan Heights

The Golan Heights is a contested, strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The term Golan Heights actually has two separate meanings, one geography and one political:...
led to Avigdor Kahalani

Avigdor Kahalani

Brigadier-General Avigdor Kahalani is a former Israeli soldier and politician....
and Emanuel Zisman leaving the party to form The New Way

Third Way (Israel)

The Third Way was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel in the 1990s....
.

After Rabin's assassination

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4, 1995, at 21:30, at the end of a Demonstration in support of the Oslo Accords at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv....
on 4 November 1995, Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres

Order of St Michael and St George is the ninth and current President of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 Cabinet of Israel in a political career spanning over 66 years....
took over as Prime Minister

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....
and formed a new government on 22 November 1995. His coalition was the same as before; Labour, Meretz and Yiud. Peres called early elections in 1996 in order to seek a mandate to continue the peace process.

External links

Knesset website