1992 Israeli legislative election

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]

Elections for the 13th Knesset

23 June 1992

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

Parliament factions

For a more comprehensive list, see List of political parties in Israel.

The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 12th Knesset.

Name		Ideology	Symbol	Leader	1988 result		Seats at 1991 dissolution
					Votes (%)	Seats
	Likud	National conservatism National liberalism	מחל‎	Yitzhak Shamir	31.1%	40 / 120	40 / 120
	Labor	Social democracy	אמת‎	Yitzhak Rabin	30.0%	39 / 120	38 / 120
	Shas	Religious conservatism Populism	שס‎	Aryeh Deri	4.7%	6 / 120	5 / 120
	Agudat Yisrael	Religious conservatism	ג‎	Moshe Ze'ev Feldman	4.5%	5 / 120	4 / 120
	Ratz	Social democracy Secularism	רצ‎	Shulamit Aloni	4.3%	5 / 120	6 / 120
	Mafdal	Religious Zionism	ב‎	Avner Shaki	3.9%	5 / 120	5 / 120
	Hadash	Communism Socialism	ו‎	Meir Vilner	3.7%	4 / 120	4 / 120
	Tehiya	Ultranationalism Revisionist Zionism	ת‎	Yuval Ne'eman Geula Cohen	3.1%	3 / 120	3 / 120
	Mapam	Labor Zionism Socialism	מפם‎	Yair Tzaban	2.5%	3 / 120	3 / 120
	Tzomet	Nationalism Agrarianism	ץ‎	Rafael Eitan	2.0%	2 / 120	2 / 120
	Moledet	Ultranationalism	ט‎	Rehavam Ze'evi	1.9%	2 / 120	2 / 120
	Shinui	Liberalism Centrism	הן‎	Amnon Rubinstein	1.7%	2 / 120	2 / 120
	Degel HaTorah	Religious conservatism	עץ‎	Avraham Ravitz	1.5%	2 / 120	2 / 120
	PLFP	Pro-peace	פ‎	Mohammed Miari	1.5%	1 / 120	1 / 120
	Mada	Israeli Arab Interests	עם‎	Abdulwahab Darawshe	1.2%	1 / 120	1 / 120
	Moria	Ultra-Orthodox interest	-	Yitzhak Peretz	-	0 / 120	1 / 120
	Geulat Yisrael	Mizrahi ultra-Orthodox interest	קל‎	Eliezer Mizrahi	-	0 / 120	1 / 120

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 ^1	906,810	34.7	44	+5
Likud ^2	651,229	24.9	32	−8
Meretz	250,667	9.6	12	+2
Tzomet ^3	166,366	6.4	8	+6
National Religious Party	129,663	5.0	6	+1
Shas ^4	129,347	4.9	6	0
United Torah Judaism ^5	86,167	3.3	4	−3
Hadash	62,546	2.4	3	−1
Moledet ^6	62,269	2.4	3	+1
Arab Democratic Party	40,788	1.6	2	+1
Tehiya	31,957	1.2	0	−3
Progressive List for Peace	24,181	0.9	0	−1
New Liberal Party	16,669	0.6	0	New
Geulat Yisrael	12,851	0.5	0	New
Da	11,697	0.4	0	New
Pensioners, Immigrants and Senior Citizens	8,327	0.3	0	New
Movement for Mortgage Affected, Homeless and Demobilised Soldiers	5,962	0.2	0	0
Pikanti	3,750	0.1	0	New
Torah VeAretz	3,708	0.1	0	New
On Wheels	3,355	0.1	0	New
Women's Party	2,886	0.1	0	New
Hatikva	2,053	0.1	0	New
Natural Law Party	1,734	0.1	0	New
Tali	1,336	0.1	0	New
Tzipor	523	0.0	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	21,102	–	–	–
Total	2,637,943	100	120	0
Registered voters/turnout	3,409,015	77.4	–	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

¹ Two MKs left the Labor Party to establish the Third Way, whilst Nava Arad also left the party.

² Two MKs left Likud to establish Gesher, whilst Efraim Gur also left the party.

³ Three MKs left Tzomet to establish Yiud. One MK then left Yiud to establish Atid.

⁴ Yosef Azran left Shas.

⁵ United Torah Judaism split into Agudat Yisrael (two seats) and Degel HaTorah (two seats).

⁶ One MK left Moldet to establish Yamin Yisrael, whilst Yosef Ba-Gad also left the party.

Thirteenth Knesset

See also: List of members of the thirteenth Knesset

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.

References

1. "The 1992 Knesset Elections Revisited" Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
2. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p. 128 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
3. "Memory of Rabin likely to influence Israeli elections" CNN, 5 February 1996

External links

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