1949 Israeli Constituent Assembly election information
1949 Israeli Constituent Assembly election
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Turnout
86.88%
Party
Leader
%
Seats
Mapai
David Ben-Gurion
35.72
46
Mapam
Yitzhak Tabenkin
14.73
19
United Religious Front
Yehuda Leib Maimon
12.19
16
Herut
Menachem Begin
11.45
14
General Zionists
Israel Rokach
5.21
7
Progressive Party
Pinchas Rosen
4.09
5
Sephardim and Oriental Communities
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
3.52
4
Maki
Shmuel Mikunis
3.48
4
Democratic List of Nazareth
Seif el-Din el-Zoubi
1.70
2
Fighters' List
Nathan Yellin-Mor
1.23
1
WIZO
Rachel Cohen-Kagan
1.19
1
Yemenite Association
Zecharia Glosca
1.01
1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before
Prime Minister after
David Ben-Gurion Mapai
David Ben-Gurion Mapai
Mapai posters comparing Herut leader Menachem Begin to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.David Ben-Gurion campaigning for Mapai before the election of the Israeli Constituent Assembly, 20 January 1949Israeli election posters, 1949
Constituent Assembly elections were held in newly independent Israel on 25 January 1949. Voter turnout was 86.9%.[1] Two days after its first meeting on 14 February 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset (Hebrew: כנסת, translated as Assembly). It is known today as the First Knesset.
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