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Israel 1984 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Alignment / Labor won 44 of 120 seats with 34.9% of the vote; 78.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.3 points on 1981.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Alignment / Labor44−334.9−1.7724,074
Likud41−731.9−5.2661,302
Tehiya5+24.0+1.783,037
National Religious Party / The Jewish Home4−23.5−1.473,530
New Communist List / Democratic Front403.40.069,815
Shas43.163,605
Shinui3+12.7+1.254,747
Ratz3+22.4+1.049,698
Yahad32.246,302
Progressive List for Peace21.838,012
Agudat Yisrael2−21.7−2.036,079
Morasha21.633,287
The other parties and groups
PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Movement for the Heritage of Israel1−21.5−0.831,103
Kach11.225,907
Ometz1−11.2−0.423,845
Largest party without seats00.715,348

± is the change against the Israel 1981 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Alignment / Labor 724,074
  • Likud 661,302
  • Tehiya 83,037
  • National Religious Party / The Jewish Home 73,530
  • New Communist List / Democratic Front 69,815
  • Shas 63,605
  • Shinui 54,747
  • Ratz 49,698
  • Yahad 46,302
  • Progressive List for Peace 38,012
  • Agudat Yisrael 36,079
  • Morasha 33,287
  • Movement for the Heritage of Israel 31,103
  • Kach 25,907
  • Ometz 23,845
  • Largest party without seats 15,348

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

78.8% of the 2,654,613 registered voters cast a ballot (2,091,402 ballots), up 0.3 points on 1981. 2,073,321 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Alignment / Labor34.9% of votes36.7% of seats
  • Likud31.9% of votes34.2% of seats
  • Tehiya4.0% of votes4.2% of seats
  • National Religious Party / The Jewish Home3.5% of votes3.3% of seats
  • New Communist List / Democratic Front3.4% of votes3.3% of seats
  • Shas3.1% of votes3.3% of seats
  • Shinui2.7% of votes2.5% of seats
  • Ratz2.4% of votes2.5% of seats
  • Yahad2.2% of votes2.5% of seats
  • Progressive List for Peace1.8% of votes1.7% of seats
  • Agudat Yisrael1.7% of votes1.7% of seats
  • Morasha1.6% of votes1.7% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.3 by votes and 3.9 by seats; Alignment / Labor led Likud by 3.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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