Israel 1981 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Likud won 48 of 120 seats with 37.1% of the vote; 78.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.7 points on 1977.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likud | 48 | +5 | 37.1 | +3.7 | 718,941 |
| Alignment / Labor | 47 | +15 | 36.6 | +12.0 | 708,536 |
| National Religious Party / The Jewish Home | 6 | −6 | 4.9 | −4.3 | 95,232 |
| Agudat Yisrael | 4 | 0 | 3.7 | +0.4 | 72,312 |
| New Communist List / Democratic Front | 4 | −1 | 3.4 | −1.2 | 64,918 |
| Tehiya | 3 | 2.3 | 44,700 | ||
| Movement for the Heritage of Israel | 3 | 2.3 | 44,466 | ||
| Ometz | 2 | 1.6 | 30,600 | ||
| Shinui | 2 | 1.5 | 29,837 | ||
| Ratz | 1 | 0 | 1.4 | +0.2 | 27,921 |
| Poalei Agudat Yisrael | 0 | −1 | 0.9 | −0.4 | 17,090 |
± is the change against the Israel 1977 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Likud 718,941
- Alignment / Labor 708,536
- National Religious Party / The Jewish Home 95,232
- Agudat Yisrael 72,312
- New Communist List / Democratic Front 64,918
- Tehiya 44,700
- Movement for the Heritage of Israel 44,466
- Ometz 30,600
- Shinui 29,837
- Ratz 27,921
- Poalei Agudat Yisrael 17,090
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
78.5% of the 2,490,014 registered voters cast a ballot (1,954,609 ballots), down 0.7 points on 1977. 1,937,366 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1951 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Likud37.1% of votes40.0% of seats
- Alignment / Labor36.6% of votes39.2% of seats
- National Religious Party / The Jewish Home4.9% of votes5.0% of seats
- Agudat Yisrael3.7% of votes3.3% of seats
- New Communist List / Democratic Front3.4% of votes3.3% of seats
- Movement for the Heritage of Israel2.3% of votes2.5% of seats
- Tehiya2.3% of votes2.5% of seats
- Ometz1.6% of votes1.7% of seats
- Shinui1.5% of votes1.7% of seats
- Ratz1.4% of votes0.8% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Likud led Alignment / Labor by 0.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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