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% of the vote in the previous elections in 1965. As a result, Golda Meir remained Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 82%.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p125
Parliament factions
The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 6th Knesset.
Name Ideology Symbol Leader 1965 resultSeats at 1968dissolution Votes (%) Seats Labor Social democracyLabor Zionism Golda Meir36.7% Gahal National liberalism Menachem Begin21.3% Mafdal Religious Zionism Haim-Moshe Shapira8.9% Rafi Social democracy Moshe Dayan7.9% Mapam Labor ZionismSocialism Meir Ya'ari6.6% Free Centre Liberalism Shmuel Tamir- Independent Liberals Liberalism Moshe Kol3.8% Agudat Yisrael Religious conservatism Yitzhak-Meir Levin3.3% Rakah CommunismSocialism Meir Vilner2.3% Poalei Agudat Yisrael Religious conservatism Kalman Kahana1.9% Progress and Development Arab satellite list Seif el-Din el-Zoubi1.8% Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers Arab satellite list Diyab Obeid1.3% HaOlam HaZeh Progressivism Uri Avnery1.2% Maki CommunismSocialism Shmuel Mikunis1.1% National List Social liberalism David Ben-Gurion-
Results
Aftermath
Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the fifteenth government, a national unity government including Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood. There were 24 ministers. Gahal resigned from the coalition on 6 August 1970 after the government had decided to adopt the Rogers Plan.
The seventh Knesset was one of the most stable, with only three MKs changing parties; Meir Avizohar left the National List in 1972 to sit as an independent, before joining the Alignment the following year; Avner Shaki left the National Religious Party in 1972 and sat as an independent; and Shalom Cohen left HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash in 1972.Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups Knesset
References
External links Historical overview of the Seventh Knesset Knesset Election results Knesset The Seventh Knesset Knesset