1959 Israeli legislative election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Legislative elections were held in Israel on 3 November 1959 to elect the 120 members of the fourth
Speaker of the Knesset
.
Voter turnout was 81.6%.[1]
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Mapai | 370,585 | 38.23 | 47 | +7 | |
Herut | 130,515 | 13.46 | 17 | +2 | |
National Religious Party | 95,581 | 9.86 | 12 | +1 | |
Mapam | 69,468 | 7.17 | 9 | 0 | |
General Zionists | 59,700 | 6.16 | 8 | −5 | |
Ahdut HaAvoda | 58,043 | 5.99 | 7 | −3 | |
Religious Torah Front | 45,569 | 4.70 | 6 | 0 | |
Progressive Party | 44,889 | 4.63 | 6 | +1 | |
Maki | 27,374 | 2.82 | 3 | −3 | |
Progress and Development | 12,347 | 1.27 | 2 | New | |
Cooperation and Brotherhood | 11,104 | 1.15 | 2 | New | |
Agriculture and Development | 10,902 | 1.12 | 1 | 0 | |
Union of North African Immigrants | 8,199 | 0.85 | 0 | New | |
Progress and Work | 4,651 | 0.48 | 0 | −2 | |
Independent Faction for Israeli Arabs | 3,818 | 0.39 | 0 | New | |
Israeli Arab Labour Party | 3,369 | 0.35 | 0 | New | |
Sephardi National Party | 3,133 | 0.32 | 0 | New | |
National Union | 2,456 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | |
Holocaust Handicapped and Injured Faction | 1,765 | 0.18 | 0 | New | |
Yemenite Faction | 1,711 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | |
Independents | 1,611 | 0.17 | 0 | New | |
Socialist Union (Bund) | 1,322 | 0.14 | 0 | New | |
New Immigrants Front | 631 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |
Third Power | 594 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
Total | 969,337 | 100.00 | 120 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 969,337 | 97.49 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 24,967 | 2.51 | |||
Total votes | 994,304 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,218,483 | 81.60 | |||
Source: IDI, Nohlen et al. |
Aftermath
The government collapsed when Ben-Gurion resigned on 31 January 1961, over a
motion of no-confidence brought by Herut and the General Zionists in the wake of the Lavon Affair. When Ben-Gurion was unable to form a new government new elections were called. Serving one year and nine months, the fourth Knesset was the shortest Knesset term until the five-month twenty-first Knesset
in 2019.
See also
References
- ISBN 0-19-924958-X
External links
- Historical overview of the Fourth Knesset Knesset website
- Elections to the Fourth Knesset Knesset website
- Factional and Government Make-Up of the Fourth Knesset Knesset website