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1973 Israeli legislative election

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Field	Value
election_name	1973 Israeli legislative election
previous_election	[1969](1969-israeli-legislative-election)
next_election	[1977](1977-israeli-legislative-election)
election_date	31 December 1973
seats_for_election	All 120 seats in the Knesset
majority_seats	61
turnout	78.58% ( 3.08pp)
country	Israel
party1	Alignment (Israel)
leader1	Golda Meir
seats1	51
last_election1	56
percentage1	39.65
party2	Likud
leader2	Menachem Begin
seats2	39
last_election2	32
percentage2	30.21
party3	National Religious Party
leader3	Yosef Burg
seats3	10
last_election3	12
percentage3	8.32
party4	Religious Torah Front
leader4	Shlomo Lorincz
seats4	5
last_election4	6
percentage4	3.83
party5	Independent Liberals (Israel)
leader5	Moshe Kol
seats5	4
last_election5	4
percentage5	3.61
party6	Rakah
leader6	Meir Vilner
seats6	4
last_election6	3
percentage6	3.41
party7	Ratz (political party)
leader7	Shulamit Aloni
seats7	3
last_election7	new
percentage7	2.24
party8	Progress & Development
leader8	Seif el-Din el-Zoubi
seats8	2
last_election8	2
percentage8	1.44
party9	Moked
leader9	Meir Pa'il
seats9	1
last_election9	1
percentage9	1.41
party10	Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers
leader10	Hamad Abu Rabia
seats10	1
last_election10	new
percentage10	1.05
before_election	Golda Meir
before_party	Alignment (Israel)
after_election	Golda Meir
after_party	Alignment (Israel)
title	Prime Minister

Legislative elections were held in Israel on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 79%. The election was postponed for two months because of the Yom Kippur War.

Parliament factions

Main article: List of political parties in Israel

The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 7th Knesset.

Name	Ideology	Symbol	Leader	1969 result	Seats at 1972
dissolution	Votes (%)	Seats
Alignment (Israel)}};"		Alignment	Social democracy
Labor Zionism		Golda Meir	46.2%
Gahal}};"		Gahal	National liberalism		Menachem Begin	21.7%
National Religious Party}};"		Mafdal	Religious Zionism		Yosef Burg	9.7%
Agudat Yisrael}};"		Agudat Yisrael	Religious conservatism		Yehuda Meir Abramowicz	3.2%
Independent Liberals (Israel)}};"		Independent Liberals	Liberalism		Moshe Kol	3.2%
National List}};"		National List	Social liberalism		Yigal Hurvitz	3.1%
Maki (political party)}};"		Rakah	Communism
Socialism		Meir Vilner	2.8%
	Progress and Development	Arab satellite list		Seif el-Din el-Zoubi	2.1%
Poalei Agudat Yisrael}};"		Poalei Agudat Yisrael	Religious conservatism		Kalman Kahana	1.9%
	Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers	Arab satellite list		Hamad Abu Rabia	1.4%
Meri (political party)}};"		Meri	Progressivism		Uri Avnery	1.2%
Free Centre}};"		Free Centre	Liberalism		Shmuel Tamir	1.2%
Moked}};"		Moked	Socialism		Moshe Sneh	1.1%

Results

Aftermath

Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the sixteenth government on 10 March 1974, including the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals in her coalition, with 22 ministers. Meir resigned on 11 April 1974 after the Agranat Commission had published its interim report on the Yom Kippur War.

The Alignment's Yitzhak Rabin formed the seventeenth government on 3 June 1974, including Ratz, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers. The new government had 19 ministers. The National Religious Party joined the coalition on 30 October and Ratz left on 6 November, by which time there were 21 ministers.

The government resigned on 21 December 1976, after ministers of the National Religious Party were sacked because the party had abstained from voting on a motion of no confidence, which had been brought by Agudat Yisrael over a breach of the Sabbath on an Israeli Air Force base.

During the Knesset term there were several defections from parties; In 1975 Aryeh Eliav left the Alignment and merged with Ratz to form Ya'ad - Civil Rights Movement. The new party broke up the following year when Eliav and Marcia Freedman left to set up the Independent Socialist Faction, whilst Shulamit Aloni and Boaz Moav returned to Ratz. In 1975 Benjamin Halevi left Likud to sit as an independent, whilst Shmuel Tamir and Akiva Nof left Likud to form the Free Centre the following year.

In February 1974 Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers merged into the Alignment (with which they were already associated), but both later broke away and then formed the United Arab List in 1977. In the build-up to the 1977 elections the Religious Torah Front broke up into Agudat Yisrael (three seats) and Poalei Agudat Yisrael in March 1977. On 10 April Mapam broke away from the Alignment, but rejoined it two days later.

Notes

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p125 {{ISBN. 0-19-924958-X
"Eighth Knesset".
In 1977 [[Hillel Seidel]] defected from the Independent Liberals to Likud, whilst [[Mordechai Ben-Porat]] broke away from the Alignment and sat as an independent.[https://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionHistoryAll_eng.asp Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups] Knesset

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