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1992 Israeli legislative election
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| previous_election | [1988](1988-israeli-legislative-election) |
| next_election | [1996](1996-israeli-general-election) |
| election_date | 23 June 1992 |
| country | Israel |
| turnout | 77.38% |
| party1 | Israeli Labor Party |
| leader1 | Yitzhak Rabin |
| seats1 | 44 |
| last_election1 | 39 |
| percentage1 | 34.65 |
| party2 | Likud |
| leader2 | Yitzhak Shamir |
| seats2 | 32 |
| last_election2 | 40 |
| percentage2 | 24.89 |
| party3 | Meretz |
| leader3 | Shulamit Aloni |
| seats3 | 12 |
| last_election3 | 10 |
| percentage3 | 9.58 |
| party4 | Tzomet |
| leader4 | Rafael Eitan |
| seats4 | 8 |
| last_election4 | 2 |
| percentage4 | 6.36 |
| party5 | National Religious Party |
| leader5 | Zevulun Hammer |
| seats5 | 6 |
| last_election5 | 5 |
| percentage5 | 4.95 |
| party6 | Shas |
| leader6 | Aryeh Deri |
| seats6 | 6 |
| last_election6 | 6 |
| percentage6 | 4.94 |
| party7 | United Torah Judaism |
| leader7 | Avraham Yosef Shapira |
| seats7 | 4 |
| last_election7 | 7 |
| percentage7 | 3.29 |
| party8 | Hadash |
| leader8 | Tawfiq Ziad |
| seats8 | 3 |
| last_election8 | 4 |
| percentage8 | 2.39 |
| party9 | Moledet |
| leader9 | Rehavam Ze'evi |
| seats9 | 3 |
| last_election9 | 2 |
| percentage9 | 2.38 |
| party10 | Arab Democratic Party (Israel) |
| leader10 | Abdulwahab Darawshe |
| seats10 | 2 |
| last_election10 | 1 |
| percentage10 | 1.56 |
| title | Prime Minister |
| before_election | Yitzhak Shamir |
| before_party | Likud |
| after_election | Yitzhak Rabin |
| after_party | Labor Party |
Elections for the 13th Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The election resulted in the formation of a Labor government, led by Yitzhak Rabin, helped by the failure of several small right wing parties to pass the electoral threshold. Voter turnout was 77%.
Parliament factions
Main article: List of political parties in Israel
The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 12th Knesset.
| Name | Ideology | Symbol | Leader | 1988 result | Seats at 1992 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dissolution | Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| Likud}};" | Likud | National liberalism | Yitzhak Shamir | 31.1% | ||||
| Israeli Labor Party}};" | Labor | Social democracy | Yitzhak Rabin | 30.0% | ||||
| Meretz}};" | Meretz | Social democracy | ||||||
| Secularism | — | Shulamit Aloni | ||||||
| Yair Tzaban | ||||||||
| Amnon Rubinstein | — | *did not exist* | ||||||
| Shas}};" | Shas | Religious conservatism | ||||||
| Populism | Aryeh Deri | 4.7% | ||||||
| Agudat Yisrael}};" | Agudat Yisrael | Religious conservatism | Moshe Ze'ev Feldman | 4.5% | ||||
| Ratz | Progressivism | |||||||
| Secularism | Shulamit Aloni | 4.3% | *no longer existed* | |||||
| National Religious Party}};" | Mafdal | Religious Zionism | Avner Shaki | 3.9% | ||||
| Hadash}};" | Hadash | Communism | ||||||
| Socialism | Meir Vilner | 3.7% | ||||||
| Tehiya}};" | Tehiya | Ultranationalism | ||||||
| Revisionist Zionism | Yuval Ne'eman | |||||||
| Geula Cohen | 3.1% | |||||||
| Mapam}};" | Mapam | Labor Zionism | ||||||
| Democratic socialism | Yair Tzaban | 2.5% | *no longer existed* | |||||
| New Liberal Party | Liberalism | — | Yitzhak Moda'i | — | *did not exist* | |||
| Tzomet}};" | Tzomet | Nationalism | ||||||
| Agrarianism | Rafael Eitan | 2.0% | ||||||
| Moledet | Ultranationalism | Rehavam Ze'evi | 1.9% | |||||
| Shinui}};" | Shinui | Liberalism | ||||||
| Centrism | Amnon Rubinstein | 1.7% | *no longer existed* | |||||
| Degel HaTorah}};" | Degel HaTorah | Religious conservatism | Avraham Ravitz | 1.5% | ||||
| PLFP | Pacifism | Mohammed Miari | 1.5% | |||||
| Mada | Israeli Arab Interests | Abdulwahab Darawshe | 1.2% | |||||
| Moria | Ultra-Orthodox interest | — | Yitzhak Peretz | — | *did not exist* | |||
| Geulat Yisrael | Mizrahi ultra-Orthodox interest | — | Eliezer Mizrahi | — | *did not exist* |
Campaign period
Campaign slogans
| Party or alliance | title=סיסמאות בפוליטיקה הישראלית | url=https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%91%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA | access-date=28 December 2025 | website=Hebrew Wikiquote}} | English translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likud}}" | Likud | ||||
| Israeli Labor Party}}" | Labor | ||||
| Meretz}}" | Meretz | ||||
| National Religious Party}}" | Mafdal | ||||
| United Torah Judaism}}" | UTJ | ||||
| Hadash}}" | Hadash | ||||
| Tzomet}}" | Tzomet | ||||
| Tehiya}}" | Tehiya |
Results
Aftermath
Labour's Yitzhak Rabin formed the twenty-fifth government on 13 July 1992, including Meretz and Shas in his coalition, which had 17 ministers. Hadash and the Arab Democratic Party also supported the government despite not being coalition members. Shas left the coalition in September 1993, and Yiud joined in January 1995.
Rabin's government advanced the peace process to unprecedented levels; the Oslo Accords were signed with Yasser Arafat's PLO in 1993 and the Israel–Jordan peace treaty in 1994. The government's willingness to make peace with Syria and concede the Golan Heights led to Avigdor Kahalani and Emanuel Zisman leaving the party to form the Third Way.
After Rabin's assassination on 4 November 1995, Shimon Peres took over as Prime Minister and formed a new government on 22 November 1995. His coalition was the same as before; Labor, Meretz and Yiud. Peres called early elections in 1996 in order to seek a mandate to continue the peace process, in which he lost.
The Knesset term saw several defections; two MKs left the Labor Party to establish the Third Way, whilst Nava Arad also left the party. Two MKs left Likud to establish Gesher, whilst Efraim Gur also left the party. Three MKs left Tzomet to establish Yiud; one MK then left Yiud to establish Atid. Yosef Azran left Shas. One MK left Moldet to establish Yamin Yisrael, whilst Yosef Ba-Gad also left the party. United Torah Judaism split into Agudat Yisrael (two seats) and Degel HaTorah (two seats).
Notes
References
References
- [http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles/elec92-future.htm "The 1992 Knesset Elections Revisited"] Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- [[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p. 128 {{ISBN. 0-19-924958-X
- "סיסמאות בפוליטיקה הישראלית".
- [http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9602/israel_elex/index.html "Memory of Rabin likely to influence Israeli elections"] CNN, 5 February 1996
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