1969 Israeli legislative election

Elections for the 7th Knesset
Israel
← 1965 28 October 1969 1973 →

All 120 seats in the Knesset
61 seats needed for a majority
Turnout81.7% (Decrease 4.2 pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Alignment Golda Meir 46.2 56 −7
Gahal Menachem Begin 21.7 26 0
Mafdal Haim-Moshe Shapira 9.7 12 +1
Agudat Yisrael Yitzhak-Meir Levin 3.2 4 0
Independent Liberals Moshe Kol 3.2 4 −1
National List David Ben-Gurion 3.1 4 New
Rakah Meir Vilner 2.8 3 0
Progress and Development Seif el-Din el-Zoubi 2.1 2 0
PAI Kalman Kahana 1.9 2 0
Cooperation and Brotherhood Diyab Obeid 1.4 2 0
Meri Uri Avnery 1.2 2 +1
Free Centre Shmuel Tamir 1.2 2 New
Maki Moshe Sneh 1.1 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Golda Meir
Alignment
Golda Meir
Alignment
Counting of the election results
Counting of the election results
A voter in the elections
A voter in the elections
Entrance to a voting booth for the municipal elections, which were held simultaneously
Entrance to a voting booth for the municipal elections, which were held simultaneously

Legislative elections were held in Israel on 28 October 1969 to elect members of the seventh Knesset. The ruling Alignment coalition was returned to power with the largest number of seats ever won in an Israeli election (56 out of 120). This was attributed to the government's popularity following the country's victory in the Six-Day War, and that the Alignment had been formed by an alliance of the four most popular left-wing parties, who between them had received 51.2% of the vote in the previous elections in 1965. As a result, Golda Meir remained Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 81.7%.[1]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p125 ISBN 0-19-924958-X