1951 Israeli legislative election

none 1949 1955 30 July 1951 75.15% Israel Mapai David Ben-Gurion 45 46 37.30 General Zionists Israel Rokach 20 7 16.20 Mapam Meir Ya'ari 15 19 12.52 Hapoel HaMizrachi Haim-Moshe Shapira 8 7 6.74 Herut Menachem Begin 8 14 6.64 Maki (historical political party) Shmuel Mikunis 5 4 3.98 Progressive Party (Israel) Pinchas Rosen 4 5 3.22 Democratic List for Israeli Arabs Seif el-Din el-Zoubi 3 New 2.38 Agudat Yisrael Yitzhak-Meir Levin 3 2 2.01 Sephardim and Oriental Communities Eliyahu Eliashar 2 4 1.75 Poalei Agudat Yisrael Binyamin Mintz 2 3 1.63 Mizrachi (political party) David-Zvi Pinkas 2 4 1.51 Progress and Work Salah-Hassan Hanifes 1 new 1.17 Yemenite Association Shimon Garidi 1 1 1.16 Agriculture and Development Faras Hamdan 1 new 1.14 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion Mapai David Ben-Gurion Mapaithumb|200px|President Chaim Weizmann votesthumb|Bedouin man votes thumb|200px|Soldiers vote at a field polling station March 2026 Elections for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July 1951. Voter turnout was 75%.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p123 0-19-924958-X Results File:1951 Knesset.svg Mapai 256456 45 −1 General Zionists 111394 20 +13 Mapam 86095 15 −4 Hapoel HaMizrachi 46347 8 +1 Herut 45651 8 −6 Maki 27334 5 +1 Progressive Party 22171 4 −1 Democratic List for Israeli Arabs 16370 3 New Agudat Yisrael 13799 3 +1 Sephardim and Oriental Communities 12002 2 −2 Poalei Agudat Yisrael 11194 2 −1 Mizrachi 10383 2 −2 Progress and Work 8067 1 New Yemenite Association 7965 1 0 Agriculture and Development 7851 1 New Sepharadim-Ashkenazim Unity 4038 0 New For New Immigrants and Freed Soldiers 375 0 New 7515 0 924885 IDI,IDI Nohlen et al. Aftermath The second Knesset was highly unstable, with four separate governments, two different Prime Ministers and several defections; Rostam Bastuni, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh left Mapam and set up the Left Faction. Bastuni later returned to Mapam whilst Berman and Sneh joined Maki. Hannah Lamdan and David Livschitz also left Mapam, establishing the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda before joining Mapai. Four other members left Mapam to found Ahdut HaAvoda – Poale Zion, but the move was not recognised by the Knesset speaker. During the Knesset term, Sephardim and Oriental Communities joined the General Zionists. As with the first Knesset, the speaker was Yosef Sprinzak. Third government Third government of Israel The second Knesset started with David Ben-Gurion forming the third government of Israel (the first Knesset had two governments) on 8 October 1951. His Mapai party formed a coalition with Mizrachi, Hapoel HaMizrachi, Agudat Yisrael, Agudat Yisrael Workers and the three Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development. Like the first Knesset, there were 15 ministers. The government resigned on 19 December 1952 due to a dispute with the religious parties over religious education. Fourth government Fourth government of Israel Ben-Gurion formed the fourth government on 24 December 1952, dropping the ultra-orthodox parties (Agudat Yisrael and Agudat Yisrael Workers) and replacing them with the General Zionists and the Progressive Party. The new government had 16 ministers. Ben-Gurion resigned on 6 December 1953 as he wished to settle in the Negev kibbutz of Sde Boker. Fifth government Fifth government of Israel Moshe Sharett formed the fifth government on 26 January 1954 with the same coalition partners and ministers. Sharett resigned on 29 June 1955, when the General Zionists refused to abstain from voting on a motion of no-confidence brought by Herut and Maki over the government's position on the trial of Malchiel Gruenwald, who had accused Rudolf Kastner of collaborating with the Nazis. Sixth government Sixth government of Israel Sharett formed the sixth government on 29 June 1955, eliminating the General Zionists and the Progressive Party from the coalition and reducing the number of ministers to 12. The new government did not last long, as a general election was called for 26 July 1955. See also List of members of the second Knesset References External links Historical overview of the Second Knesset Knesset website Knesset Elections Results: Second Knesset Knesset website Factional and Government Make-Up of the Second Knesset Knesset website Category:1951 elections in Israel Legislative election Category:Legislative elections in Israel Category:July 1951 in Asia Israel Category:David Ben-Gurion Category:Menachem Begin