Israel 2003 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Likud won 38 of 120 seats with 29.4% of the vote; 67.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 10.9 points on 1999.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likud | 38 | +19 | 29.4 | +15.3 | 925,279 |
| Alignment / Laborwith Meimad | 19 | −7 | 14.5 | −5.7 | 455,183 |
| Shinui | 15 | +9 | 12.3 | +7.3 | 386,535 |
| Shas | 11 | −6 | 8.2 | −4.8 | 258,879 |
| National Union--Tkuma / Religious Zionist Party | 7 | +4 | 5.5 | +2.5 | 173,973 |
| Meretz | 6 | −4 | 5.2 | −2.4 | 164,122 |
| United Torah Judaismwith Agudat Yisrael and Banner of the Torah | 5 | 0 | 4.3 | +0.6 | 135,087 |
| National Religious Party / The Jewish Home | 6 | +1 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 132,370 |
| New Communist List / Democratic Frontwith Arab Movement for Renewal | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | +0.4 | 93,819 |
| One Nation | 3 | +1 | 2.8 | +0.9 | 86,808 |
| Balad | 3 | +1 | 2.3 | +0.4 | 71,299 |
| Yisrael BaAliyah | 2 | −4 | 2.1 | −3.0 | 67,719 |
The other parties and groups
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ra'am | 2 | −3 | 2.1 | −1.3 | 65,551 |
| Ale Yarok | 0 | 1.2 | 37,855 | ||
| Herut – The National Movement | 0 | −1 | 1.1 | 36,202 |
± is the change against the Israel 1999 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Likud 925,279
- Alignment / Labor 455,183
- Shinui 386,535
- Shas 258,879
- National Union--Tkuma / Religious Zionist Party 173,973
- Meretz 164,122
- United Torah Judaism 135,087
- National Religious Party / The Jewish Home 132,370
- New Communist List / Democratic Front 93,819
- One Nation 86,808
- Balad 71,299
- Yisrael BaAliyah 67,719
- Ra'am 65,551
- Ale Yarok 37,855
- Herut – The National Movement 36,202
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.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
67.8% of the 4,720,075 registered voters cast a ballot (3,200,773 ballots), down 10.9 points on 1999. 3,148,364 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1949. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Likud29.4% of votes31.7% of seats
- Alignment / Labor14.5% of votes15.8% of seats
- Shinui12.3% of votes12.5% of seats
- Shas8.2% of votes9.2% of seats
- National Union--Tkuma / Religious Zionist Party5.5% of votes5.8% of seats
- Meretz5.2% of votes5.0% of seats
- National Religious Party / The Jewish Home4.2% of votes5.0% of seats
- United Torah Judaism4.3% of votes4.2% of seats
- New Communist List / Democratic Front3.0% of votes2.5% of seats
- One Nation2.8% of votes2.5% of seats
- Balad2.3% of votes2.5% of seats
- Yisrael BaAliyah2.1% of votes1.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 7.1 by votes and 6.2 by seats; Likud led Alignment / Labor by 14.9 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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