Elections to the Eighteenth Knesset

(February 10, 2009)

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Valid Votes: 3,373,490 (98.7% of total votes)

Qualifying Threshhold: 67,470 (2% of votes)

Votes Per Seat: 28,112

Party Name

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Seats Won (Change)
758,032
22.5%
28 (-1)
729,054
21.6
27 (+15)
394,577
11.7
15 (+4)
334,900
9.9
13 (-6)
286,300
8.5
11 (-1)
147,954
4.4
5 (-1)
113,954
3.4
4 (n/a)
112,570
3.3
4 (n/a)
112,130
3.3
4 (+1)
99,611
3.0
3 (-2)
96,765
2.9
3 (n/a)
83,739
2.5
3 (n/a)
The Green Movement *
27,737
0.8
0 (-1)
Gil *
17,571
0.5
0 (-7)
Tzomet *
1,520
0.05
0 (-1)

* - Green Movement, Gil, and Tzomet did not cross the qualifying threshhold and were not represented in the government. Other parties as well did not cross the threshhold, but only these three had been represented in the previous Knesset.
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