Israel 1988 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Likud won 40 of 120 seats with 31.1% of the vote; 79.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.9 points on 1984.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likud | 40 | −1 | 31.1 | −0.8 | 709,305 |
| Alignment / Labor | 39 | −5 | 30.0 | −4.9 | 685,363 |
| Shas | 6 | +2 | 4.7 | +1.6 | 107,709 |
| Agudat Yisrael | 5 | +3 | 4.5 | +2.8 | 102,714 |
| Ratz | 5 | +2 | 4.3 | +1.9 | 97,513 |
| National Religious Party / The Jewish Home | 5 | +1 | 3.9 | +0.4 | 89,720 |
| New Communist List / Democratic Front | 4 | 0 | 3.7 | +0.3 | 84,032 |
| Tehiya | 3 | −2 | 3.1 | −0.9 | 70,730 |
| Mapam | 3 | 2.5 | 56,345 | ||
| Tzomet | 2 | 2.0 | 45,489 | ||
| Moledet | 2 | 1.9 | 44,174 | ||
| Shinui | 2 | −1 | 1.7 | −1.0 | 39,538 |
The other parties and groups
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banner of the Torah | 2 | 1.5 | 34,279 | ||
| Progressive List for Peace | 1 | −1 | 1.5 | −0.3 | 33,695 |
| Arab Democratic Party | 1 | 1.2 | 27,012 | ||
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 16,674 |
± is the change against the Israel 1984 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Likud 709,305
- Alignment / Labor 685,363
- Shas 107,709
- Agudat Yisrael 102,714
- Ratz 97,513
- National Religious Party / The Jewish Home 89,720
- New Communist List / Democratic Front 84,032
- Tehiya 70,730
- Mapam 56,345
- Tzomet 45,489
- Moledet 44,174
- Shinui 39,538
- Banner of the Torah 34,279
- Progressive List for Peace 33,695
- Arab Democratic Party 27,012
- Largest party without seats 16,674
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
79.7% of the 2,894,267 registered voters cast a ballot (2,305,567 ballots), up 0.9 points on 1984. 2,283,123 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1969 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Likud31.1% of votes33.3% of seats
- Alignment / Labor30.0% of votes32.5% of seats
- Shas4.7% of votes5.0% of seats
- Agudat Yisrael4.5% of votes4.2% of seats
- Ratz4.3% of votes4.2% of seats
- National Religious Party / The Jewish Home3.9% of votes4.2% of seats
- New Communist List / Democratic Front3.7% of votes3.3% of seats
- Tehiya3.1% of votes2.5% of seats
- Mapam2.5% of votes2.5% of seats
- Tzomet2.0% of votes1.7% of seats
- Moledet1.9% of votes1.7% of seats
- Shinui1.7% of votes1.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.0 by votes and 4.4 by seats; Likud led Alignment / Labor by 1.1 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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