Israel 2006 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Kadima won 29 of 120 seats with 22.0% of the vote; 63.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.3 points on 2003.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kadima | 29 | 22.0 | 690,901 | ||
| Alignment / Laborwith Meimad | 19 | 0 | 15.1 | +0.6 | 472,366 |
| Shas | 12 | +1 | 9.5 | +1.3 | 299,054 |
| Likud | 12 | −26 | 9.0 | −20.4 | 281,996 |
| Yisrael Beiteinu | 11 | 9.0 | 281,880 | ||
| National Union--Tkuma / Religious Zionist Party | 9 | +2 | 7.1 | +1.6 | 224,083 |
| Dor | 7 | 5.9 | 185,759 | ||
| United Torah Judaismwith Agudat Yisrael and Banner of the Torah | 6 | +1 | 4.7 | +0.4 | 147,091 |
| Meretz | 5 | −1 | 3.8 | −1.4 | 118,302 |
| Ra'amwith Arab Movement for Renewal | 4 | +2 | 3.0 | +0.9 | 94,786 |
| New Communist List / Democratic Front | 3 | 0 | 2.7 | −0.3 | 86,092 |
| Balad | 3 | 0 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 72,066 |
| The Greens | 0 | 1.5 | 47,595 |
± is the change against the Israel 2003 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Kadima 690,901
- Alignment / Labor 472,366
- Shas 299,054
- Likud 281,996
- Yisrael Beiteinu 281,880
- National Union--Tkuma / Religious Zionist Party 224,083
- Dor 185,759
- United Torah Judaism 147,091
- Meretz 118,302
- Ra'am 94,786
- New Communist List / Democratic Front 86,092
- Balad 72,066
- The Greens 47,595
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
63.5% of the 5,014,622 registered voters cast a ballot (3,186,739 ballots), down 4.3 points on 2003. 3,137,064 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
- Kadima22.0% of votes24.2% of seats
- Alignment / Labor15.1% of votes15.8% of seats
- Shas9.5% of votes10.0% of seats
- Likud9.0% of votes10.0% of seats
- Yisrael Beiteinu9.0% of votes9.2% of seats
- National Union--Tkuma / Religious Zionist Party7.1% of votes7.5% of seats
- Dor5.9% of votes5.8% of seats
- United Torah Judaism4.7% of votes5.0% of seats
- Meretz3.8% of votes4.2% of seats
- Ra'am3.0% of votes3.3% of seats
- New Communist List / Democratic Front2.7% of votes2.5% of seats
- Balad2.3% of votes2.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 9.0 by votes and 7.8 by seats; Kadima led Alignment / Labor by 6.9 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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