1992 Israeli legislative election

Elections for the 13th Knesset

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Turnout	77.4%
Party Leader % Seats +/– Labor Yitzhak Rabin 34.7% 44 +5 Likud Yitzhak Shamir 24.9% 32 -8 Meretz Shulamit Aloni 9.6% 12 +2 Tzomet Rafael Eitan 6.4% 8 +6 Mafdal Zvulun Hammer 5.0% 6 +1 Shas Aryeh Deri 4.9% 6 0 UTJ Avraham Yosef Shapira 3.3% 4 -3 Hadash Tawfiq Ziad 2.4% 3 -1 Moledet Rehavam Ze'evi 2.4% 3 +1 Mada Abdulwahab Darawshe 1.6% 2 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Yitzhak Shamir Likud Yitzhak Rabin Labor Party

Elections for the 13th Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The election resulted in the formation of a Labor government, led by Yitzhak Rabin, helped by the failure of several small right wing parties to pass the electoral threshold.^[1] Voter turnout was 77.4%.^[2]

Parliament factions

The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the .

Results

The Labor Party chairman Yitzhak Rabin. After winning the 1992 elections, Rabin managed to form the first Labor-led government in 15 years, supported by a coalition with Meretz, a left-wing party, and Shas, a Mizrahi ultra-orthodox religious party.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Labor Party	906,810	34.65	44	+5
	Likud	651,229	24.89	32	−8
	Meretz	250,667	9.58	12	+2
	Tzomet	166,366	6.36	8	+6
	National Religious Party	129,663	4.95	6	+1
	Shas	129,347	4.94	6	0
	United Torah Judaism	86,167	3.29	4	−3
	Hadash	62,546	2.39	3	−1
	Moledet	62,269	2.38	3	+1
	Arab Democratic Party	40,788	1.56	2	+1
	Tehiya	31,957	1.22	0	−3
	Progressive List for Peace	24,181	0.92	0	−1
	New Liberal Party	16,669	0.64	0	New
	Geulat Yisrael	12,851	0.49	0	New
	Da	11,697	0.45	0	New
	Pensioners, Immigrants and Senior Citizens	8,327	0.32	0	New
	Movement for Mortgage Affected, Homeless and Demobilised Soldiers	5,962	0.23	0	0
	Pikanti	3,750	0.14	0	New
	Torah VeAretz	3,708	0.14	0	New
	On Wheels	3,355	0.13	0	New
	Women's Party	2,886	0.11	0	New
	Hatikva	2,053	0.08	0	New
	Natural Law Party	1,734	0.07	0	New
	Tali	1,336	0.05	0	New
	Tzipor	523	0.02	0	New
Total		2,616,841	100.00	120	0
Valid votes		2,616,841	99.20
Invalid/blank votes		21,102	0.80
Total votes		2,637,943	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,409,015	77.38
Source: IDI, Nohlen et al.

Aftermath

Labour's Yitzhak Rabin formed the twenty-fifth government on 13 July 1992, including Meretz and Shas in his coalition, which had 17 ministers. Hadash and the Arab Democratic Party also supported the government despite not being coalition members. Shas left the coalition in September 1993, and Yiud joined in January 1995.

Rabin's government advanced the peace process to unprecedented levels; the Oslo Accords were signed with Yasser Arafat's PLO in 1993 and the Israel–Jordan peace treaty in 1994. The government's willingness to make peace with Syria and concede the Golan Heights led to Avigdor Kahalani and Emanuel Zisman leaving the party to form the Third Way.

After Rabin's assassination on 4 November 1995, Shimon Peres took over as Prime Minister and formed a new government on 22 November 1995. His coalition was the same as before; Labor, Meretz and Yiud. Peres called early elections in 1996 in order to seek a mandate to continue the peace process,^[3] in which he lost.

The Knesset term saw several defections; two MKs left the Labor Party to establish the Third Way, whilst Nava Arad also left the party. Two MKs left Likud to establish Gesher, whilst Efraim Gur also left the party. Three MKs left Tzomet to establish Yiud; one MK then left Yiud to establish Atid. Yosef Azran left Shas. One MK left Moldet to establish Yamin Yisrael, whilst Yosef Ba-Gad also left the party. United Torah Judaism split into Agudat Yisrael (two seats) and Degel HaTorah (two seats).

See also

• 1992 Israeli Labor Party primary

References

External links

• Historical overview of the Thirteenth Knesset Knesset website
• Election results Knesset website