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2007 Israeli Labor Party leadership election

Israeli Labor Party leadership election

Israeli Labor Party leadership election

FieldValue
before_electionAmir Peretz
titleLeader
candidate1**Ehud Barak**
image1Ehud Barak Face (3x4a).jpg
1data1**23,887
35.63%**
2data1**34,542
51.29%**
candidate2Ami Ayalon
image2AmiAyalon (3x4a).jpg
1data2**20,514
30.60%**
2data232,117
47.69%
candidate4Amir Peretz
image4Israeli Minister of Defense Amir Peretz, 2007 070419-D-7203T-008 (cropped).jpg
1data415,037
22.43%
candidate5Ophir Pines-Paz
image5Ophir Pines-Paz.jpg
1data55,330
7.95%
countryIsrael
election_date28 May 2007 (first round)
12 June 2007 (second round)
next_year2011
next_election2011 Israeli Labor Party leadership election
previous_year2005
previous_election2005 Israeli Labor Party leadership election
ongoingno
1blankFirst round
2blankRunoff
party1Israeli Labor Party
party2Israeli Labor Party
party4Israeli Labor Party
party5Israeli Labor Party
typepresidential
flag_imageLogo haAwoda.svg
after_electionEhud Barak
turnout65.13% (first round)
64.5% (second round)

35.63%** 51.29%**

30.60%** 47.69%

22.43%

7.95%

12 June 2007 (second round) 64.5% (second round)

A leadership election was held by the Israeli Labor Party on 12 June 2007, to elect the party's new leader, due to internal dissatisfaction with the incumbent chairman Amir Peretz. The winner was Ehud Barak.

History

Five candidates ran in the election: Ehud Barak attempted to return to politics, this time after the move of Shimon Peres to Kadima, while Ami Ayalon announced his ambition to become prime minister.

Ofir Pines-Paz had been chairman of the coalition in the Fifteenth Knesset. He was the party's secretary-general in 2001-2003. In the 2006 election he was third in the Labor-Meimad list, after Peretz and Isaac Herzog. When Yisrael Beiteinu joined the coalition and Avigdor Lieberman was appointed minister, Pines-Paz resigned from the government. His resignation took effect on 1 November 2006. Danny Yatom ran in the election but came last in the first round of voting.

The election consisted of two rounds, the first of which took place on 28 May 2007. Ehud Barak won a slim victory in the party primary, beating Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet domestic security service. Both candidates polled well ahead of Peretz, but neither gained the requisite 40-percent margin of victory for an outright win. Peretz, then the Incumbent leader of the party, came third and did not advance to the second round. he subsequently endorsed Ayalon, while Pines-Paz endorsed Barak. Barak won the second round with 51.3% of the vote to Ayalon's 47.7%, with 1% of voters abstaining.

Opinion polls

First round

PollDateBarakAyalonPeretzPinesYatomOther / Don't Know
Globes17 May 200735%33%15%9%2%6%

Second round

PollDateBarakAyalonOther / Don't Know
Rafi Smith Institute6 June 200749%44%7%

Results

In the first round, Ayalon won a plurality of votes in the Kibbutzim, while Peretz won a plurality of Arab Voters.{{Election results

References

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