1951 Israeli legislative election

Elections for the 2nd Knesset
Israel
← 1949 30 July 1951 1955 →
Turnout75.1%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Mapai David Ben-Gurion 37.3 45 −1
General Zionists Israel Rokach 16.2 20 +13
Mapam Meir Ya'ari 12.5 15 −4
Hapoel HaMizrachi Haim-Moshe Shapira 6.8 8
Herut Menachem Begin 6.6 8 −6
Maki Shmuel Mikunis 4.0 5 +1
Progressive Party Pinchas Rosen 3.2 4 −1
Democratic List for Israeli Arabs Seif el-Din el-Zoubi 2.0 3 +1
Agudat Yisrael Yitzhak-Meir Levin 2.0 3
Sephardim and Oriental Communities Eliyahu Eliashar 1.8 2 −2
PAI Binyamin Mintz 1.6 2
Mizrachi David-Zvi Pinkas 1.5 2
Progress and Work Salah-Hassan Hanifes 1.2 1 New
Yemenite Association Shimon Garidi 1.2 1 0
Agriculture and Development Faras Hamdan 1.1 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
David Ben-Gurion
Mapai		 David Ben-Gurion
Mapai
President Chaim Weizmann votes
Bedouin man votes

Elections for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July 1951. Voter turnout was 75.1%.[1]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p123 ISBN 0-19-924958-X