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Israeli Electoral History: Elections to the 14th Knesset

(May 29, 1996)

Eligible voters 3,9333,250
Valid votes
3,052,130
Qualifying threshold (1.5%)
44,604
Votes per seat
24,779

 

Direct Elections for Prime Minister  
Binyamin Netanyahu 1,501,023
50.5 %
Shimon Peres 1,471,566
49.5 %

 

Political Party
Valid Votes
% of Total
Seats Won
Labor 818,741 27.5 34
Likud-Gesher-Tsomet 767,401 25.8 32
Shas 259,796 8.7 10
National Religious Party 240,271 8.1 9
Meretz 226,275 7.5 9
Yisrael Be'aliyah 174,994 5.8 7
Hadash 129,455 4.4 5
Yahadut Hatorah 98,657 3.3 4
The Third Way 96,474 3.2 4
United Arab List 89,514 3.0 4
Moledet 72,002 2.4 2

 


Sources: The Knesset