Israeli legislative election, 1951

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The Israeli legislative election of 1951 was the country's second national parliamentary election, held to choose members of the Knesset amid early state-building challenges and political realignments in newly established Israel.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Israeli election
legislative election
ArabSatelliteListsSeatsWon 5
coalitionHeadedBy Mapai NERFINISHED
coalitionPartners Arab satellite lists
Hapoel HaMizrachi
Mizrachi movement
surface form: Mizrachi

Progressive Party
context early years of the State of Israel
post-1948 Arab–Israeli War period
country Israel
date 1951-07-30
electionFor 2nd Knesset
electoralThreshold 1% of valid votes
GeneralZionistsSeatsWon 20
HapoelHaMizrachiSeatsWon 8
HerutSeatsWon 8
languageOfOfficialMaterials Hebrew
largestParty Mapai ONNED1
leaderOfLargestParty David Ben-Gurion
legislatureNumber 2
location Israel
surface form: State of Israel
mainIssue early state-building challenges
economic austerity
integration of mass immigration
religion and state relations
MakiSeatsWon 5
MapaiSeatsWon 45
MapaiVoteShare approximately 37.3%
MapamSeatsWon 15
MizrachiSeatsWon 2
nextElection Israeli legislative election, 1955
parliamentElected Knesset
previousElection Israeli legislative election, 1949
primeMinisterAfterElection David Ben-Gurion
ProgressivePartySeatsWon 4
ReligiousTorahFrontSeatsWon 3
resultingGovernmentHead David Ben-Gurion
secondLargestParty General Zionists
SephardimAndOrientalsListSeatsWon 2
thirdLargestParty Mapam NERFINISHED
totalSeats 120
turnout approximately 75.1%
typeOfElection parliamentary
votingSystem party-list proportional representation
winningPartyIdeology labor Zionist
social-democratic
year 1951
YemeniteAssociationSeatsWon 1

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Mapam participatedIn Israeli legislative election, 1951
Ahdut HaAvoda participatedIn Israeli legislative election, 1951
subject surface form: Ahdut HaAvoda – Poale Zion
Israeli legislative election, 1949 followedBy Israeli legislative election, 1951
Israeli legislative election, 1955 previousElection Israeli legislative election, 1951