1969 Israeli legislative election

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% of the vote in the previous elections in 1965. As a result, Golda Meir remained Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 82%.

Parliament factions

The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 6th Knesset.

Name		Ideology	Symbol	Leader	1965 result		Seats at 1968 dissolution
					Votes (%)	Seats
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Labor	Social democracy Labor Zionism	את‎	Golda Meir	36.7%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Gahal	National liberalism	חל‎	Menachem Begin	21.3%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Mafdal	Religious Zionism	ב‎	Haim-Moshe Shapira	8.9%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Rafi	Social democracy	כא‎	Moshe Dayan	7.9%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Mapam	Labor Zionism Socialism	מ‎	Meir Ya'ari	6.6%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Free Centre	Liberalism	ט‎	Shmuel Tamir	-	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Independent Liberals	Liberalism	לע‎	Moshe Kol	3.8%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Agudat Yisrael	Religious conservatism	ג‎	Yitzhak-Meir Levin	3.3%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Rakah	Communism Socialism	ו‎	Meir Vilner	2.3%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Poalei Agudat Yisrael	Religious conservatism	ד‎	Kalman Kahana	1.9%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
	Progress and Development	Arab satellite list	רא‎	Seif el-Din el-Zoubi	1.8%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
	Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers	Arab satellite list	יא‎	Diyab Obeid	1.3%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Meri	Socialism	ש‎	Uri Avnery	1.2%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	Maki	Communism	ק‎	Shmuel Mikunis	1.1%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background:Template:Party color;"|	National List	Social liberalism	עמ‎	David Ben-Gurion	-	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar

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.

External links

• Historical overview of the Seventh Knesset Knesset Template:In lang
• Election results Knesset
• The Seventh Knesset Knesset