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Israel 1969 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Alignment / Labor won 56 of 120 seats with 46.2% of the vote; 81.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.3 points on 1965.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Alignment / Labor56+1146.2+9.5632,035
Likud26021.7+0.4296,294
National Religious Party / The Jewish Home12+19.7+0.8133,238
Agudat Yisrael403.2−0.144,002
Independent Liberals4−13.2−0.643,933
National List43.142,654
New Communist List / Democratic Front302.8+0.538,827
Progress and Development202.1+0.228,046
Poalei Agudat Yisrael201.9+0.124,968
Cooperation and Brotherhood201.4+0.119,943
Meri2+11.20.016,853
Free Centre21.216,393
Communist Party / Moked / Sheli101.10.015,712
Largest party without seats000.6−0.37,591

± is the change against the Israel 1965 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Alignment / Labor 632,035
  • Likud 296,294
  • National Religious Party / The Jewish Home 133,238
  • Agudat Yisrael 44,002
  • Independent Liberals 43,933
  • National List 42,654
  • New Communist List / Democratic Front 38,827
  • Progress and Development 28,046
  • Poalei Agudat Yisrael 24,968
  • Cooperation and Brotherhood 19,943
  • Meri 16,853
  • Free Centre 16,393
  • Communist Party / Moked / Sheli 15,712
  • Largest party without seats 7,591

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Turnout

81.7% of the 1,748,710 registered voters cast a ballot (1,427,981 ballots), down 1.3 points on 1965. 1,367,743 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Alignment / Labor46.2% of votes46.7% of seats
  • Likud21.7% of votes21.7% of seats
  • National Religious Party / The Jewish Home9.7% of votes10.0% of seats
  • Agudat Yisrael3.2% of votes3.3% of seats
  • Independent Liberals3.2% of votes3.3% of seats
  • National List3.1% of votes3.3% of seats
  • New Communist List / Democratic Front2.8% of votes2.5% of seats
  • Progress and Development2.1% of votes1.7% of seats
  • Poalei Agudat Yisrael1.9% of votes1.7% of seats
  • Cooperation and Brotherhood1.4% of votes1.7% of seats
  • Free Centre1.2% of votes1.7% of seats
  • Meri1.2% of votes1.7% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.6 by seats; Alignment / Labor led Likud by 24.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

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