1993 Likud leadership election

1993 Likud leadership election
← 1992 March 24, 1993 1999 (Jan) →
Turnout67.1%
 
Candidate Benjamin Netanyahu David Levy
Party Likud Likud
Popular vote 72,705 36,654
Percentage 52.1% 26.3%
 
Candidate Benny Begin Moshe Katsav
Party Likud Likud
Popular vote 21,052 9,111
Percentage 15.1% 6.5%
Leader before election

Yitzhak Shamir

 Elected Leader

Benjamin Netanyahu

The 1993 Likud leadership election was held on March 24, 1993[1][2] to elect the leader of the Likud party. Benjamin Netanyahu defeated three other candidates in the race to succeed outgoing party leader Yitzhak Shamir. This was the first time in the history of the Likud party (or its predecessor Herut) that voting in a party leadership election was open to the party's general membership. Since Netanyahu received more than the 40% threshold required to win in the first round of voting, no runoff election was held.

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