1992 Israeli legislative election

{{main list|List of political parties in Israel}}

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

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! rowspan="2" colspan=2| Name

! rowspan="2"| Ideology

! rowspan="2"| Symbol

! rowspan="2"| Leader

! colspan="2"| 1988 result

! rowspan="2" |Seats at 1992
dissolution

|-

! Votes (%)

! Seats

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Likud}};"|

| Likud

| National liberalism

| {{Script/Hebrew|מחל}}

| Yitzhak Shamir

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan=1|31.1%

| {{Composition bar|40|120|{{party color|Likud}}}}

| {{Composition bar|38|120|{{party color|Likud}}}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Israeli Labor Party}};"|

| Labor{{efn|name=Labor|The Israeli Labor Party faction was originally the Alignment faction, but by the time of the 1988 elections, the Alignment electoral alliance had no other member parties other than Labor itself. The parliamentary faction was renamed to reflect this on 7 October 1991.}}

| Social democracy

| {{Script/Hebrew|אמת}}

| Yitzhak Rabin

| style="text-align:center;"|30.0%

| {{Composition bar|39|120|{{party color|Alignment (Israel)}}}}

|{{Composition bar|38|120|{{party color|Israeli Labor Party}}}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Meretz}};"|

| Meretz

| Social democracy
Secularism

| —{{efn|name=Meretz symbol|Would use {{Script/Hebrew|מרצ}} as its symbol in the 1992 elections}}

| Shulamit Aloni
Yair Tzaban
Amnon Rubinstein

| style="text-align:center;"|—

| did not exist{{efn|name=Meretz|On 9 March 1992, Ratz, Mapam, and Shinui agreed to run on a common list in the 1992 elections. To ensure this, their respective parliamentary factions all merged into one on the same day.}}

|{{Composition bar|10|120|{{party color|Meretz}}}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Shas}};"|

| Shas

| Religious conservatism
Populism

| {{Script/Hebrew|שס}}

| Aryeh Deri

| style="text-align:center;"|4.7%

| {{Composition bar|6|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{Composition bar|5|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Agudat Yisrael}};"|

| Agudat Yisrael

| Religious conservatism

| {{Script/Hebrew|ג}}

| Moshe Ze'ev Feldman

| style="text-align:center;"|4.5%

| {{Composition bar|5|120|{{party color|Agudat Yisrael}}}}

|{{Composition bar|4|120|{{party color|Agudat Yisrael}}}}

|-

| style="background:#C80004;"|

| Ratz

| Social democracy
Secularism

| {{Script/Hebrew|רצ}}

| Shulamit Aloni

| style="text-align:center;"|4.3%

| {{Composition bar|5|120|#C80004}}

|no longer existed{{efn|name=Meretz}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|National Religious Party}};"|

| Mafdal

| Religious Zionism

| {{Script/Hebrew|ב}}

| Avner Shaki

| style="text-align:center;"|3.9%

| {{Composition bar|5|120|{{party color|National Religious Party}}}}

|{{Composition bar|5|120|{{party color|National Religious Party}}}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Hadash}};"|

| Hadash

| Communism
Socialism

| {{Script/Hebrew|ו}}

| Meir Vilner

| style="text-align:center;"|3.7%

| {{Composition bar|4|120|{{party color|Hadash}}}}

|{{Composition bar|4|120|{{party color|Hadash}}}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Tehiya}};"|

| Tehiya

| Ultranationalism
Revisionist Zionism

| {{Script/Hebrew|ת}}

| Yuval Ne'eman
Geula Cohen

| style="text-align:center;"|3.1%

| {{Composition bar|3|120|{{party color|Tehiya}}}}

|{{Composition bar|3|120|{{party color|Tehiya}}}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Mapam}};"|

| Mapam

| Labor Zionism
Socialism

| {{Script/Hebrew|מפם}}

| Yair Tzaban

| style="text-align:center;"|2.5%

| {{Composition bar|3|120|{{party color|Mapam}}}}

|no longer existed{{efn|name=Meretz}}

|-

| style="background:#2FA1CE;"|

| New Liberal Party

| Liberalism

| —{{efn|name=NLP symbol|Would use {{Script/Hebrew|קן}} as its symbol in the 1992 elections}}

| Yitzhak Moda'i

| style="text-align:center;"|—

| did not exist{{efn|name=NLP|The New Liberal Party was formed on 15 March 1990 by five Likud defectors, formerly members of the (old) Liberal Party, who were dissatisifed with the Likud's transformation from an electoral alliance between Herut and the Liberal Party into a unitary party. Two of them, Yosef Goldberg and Avraham Sharir, later defected back to the Likud.}}

|{{Composition bar|3|120|#2FA1CE}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Tzomet}};"|

| Tzomet

| Nationalism
Agrarianism

| {{Script/Hebrew|ץ}}

| Rafael Eitan

| style="text-align:center;"|2.0%

| {{Composition bar|2|120|{{party color|Tzomet}}}}

|{{Composition bar|2|120|{{party color|Tzomet}}}}

|-

| style="background:#000080;"|

| Moledet

| Ultranationalism

| {{Script/Hebrew|ט}}

| Rehavam Ze'evi

| style="text-align:center;"|1.9%

| {{Composition bar|2|120|#000080}}

|{{Composition bar|2|120|#000080}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Shinui}};"|

| Shinui

| Liberalism
Centrism

| {{Script/Hebrew|הן}}

| Amnon Rubinstein

| style="text-align:center;"|1.7%

| {{Composition bar|2|120|{{party color|Shinui}}}}

|no longer existed{{efn|name=Meretz}}

|-

| style="background:{{party color|Degel HaTorah}};"|

| Degel HaTorah

| Religious conservatism

| {{Script/Hebrew|עץ}}

| Avraham Ravitz

| style="text-align:center;"|1.5%

| {{Composition bar|2|120|{{party color|Degel HaTorah}}}}

|{{Composition bar|2|120|{{party color|Degel HaTorah}}}}

|-

| style="background:#9CB071;"|

| PLFP

| Pro-peace

| {{Script/Hebrew|פ}}

| Mohammed Miari

| style="text-align:center;"|1.5%

| {{Composition bar|1|120|#9CB071}}

|{{Composition bar|1|120|#9CB071}}

|-

| style="background:#009900;"|

| Mada

| Israeli Arab Interests

| {{Script/Hebrew|עם}}

| Abdulwahab Darawshe

| style="text-align:center;"|1.2%

| {{Composition bar|1|120|#009900}}

|{{Composition bar|1|120|#009900}}

|-

| style="background:#000000;"|

| Moria

| Ultra-Orthodox interest

| —

| Yitzhak Peretz

| style="text-align:center;"|—

| did not exist{{efn|name=Moria|Yitzhak Peretz was elected as an MK for Shas, but defected to form his own faction on 25 December 1990. In the 1992 elections, he ran on the Agudat Yisrael list.}}

|{{Composition bar|1|120|#000000}}

|-

| style="background:#E08C35;"|

| Geulat Yisrael

| Mizrahi ultra-Orthodox interest

| —{{efn|name=Geulat Yisrael symbol|Would use {{Script/Hebrew|קל}} as its symbol in the 1992 elections}}

| Eliezer Mizrahi

| style="text-align:center;"|—

| did not exist{{efn|name=Geulat Yisrael|Eliezer Mizrahi was elected as an MK for Agudat Yisrael, but defected to form his own faction in 1990.}}

|{{Composition bar|1|120|#E08C35}}

|-

|}

File:Yitzhak Rabin (1986) cropped.jpg chairman Yitzhak Rabin. After winning the 1992 elections, Rabin managed to form the first Labor-led government in 6 years, supported by a coalition with Meretz, a left-wing party, and Shas, a Mizrahi ultra-orthodox religious party.]]

{{Election results

|image=File:1992 Knesset.svg

|party1=Labor Party|votes1=906810|seats1=44|sc1=+5

|party2=Likud|votes2=651229|seats2=32|sc2=−8

|party3=Meretz|votes3=250667|seats3=12|sc3=+2

|party4=Tzomet|votes4=166366|seats4=8|sc4=+6

|party5=National Religious Party|votes5=129663|seats5=6|sc5=+1

|party6=Shas|votes6=129347|seats6=6|sc6=0

|party7=United Torah Judaism|votes7=86167|seats7=4|sc7=−3

|party8=Hadash|votes8=62546|seats8=3|sc8=−1

|party9=Moledet|votes9=62269|seats9=3|sc9=+1

|party10=Arab Democratic Party|votes10=40788|seats10=2|sc10=+1

|party12=Tehiya|votes12=31957|seats12=0|sc12=−3

|party13=Progressive List for Peace|votes13=24181|seats13=0|sc13=−1

|party14=New Liberal Party|votes14=16669|seats14=0|sc14=New|color14=#2FA1CE

|party15=Geulat Yisrael|votes15=12851|seats15=0|sc15=New|color15=#E08C35

|party16=Da|votes16=11697|seats16=0|sc16=New

|party17=Pensioners, Immigrants and Senior Citizens|votes17=8327|seats17=0|sc17=New

|party18=Movement of Mortgage Victims, the Homeless and Veterans|votes18=5962|seats18=0|sc18=0

|party19=Pikanti|votes19=3750|seats19=0|sc19=New

|party20=Torah VeAretz|votes20=3708|seats20=0|sc20=New

|party21=On Wheels|votes21=3355|seats21=0|sc21=New

|party22=Women's Party|votes22=2886|seats22=0|sc22=New

|party23=Hatikva|color23=orange|votes23=2053|seats23=0|sc23=New

|party24=Natural Law Party|color24={{party color|Natural Law Party}}|votes24=1734|seats24=0|sc24=New

|party25=Tali|votes25=1336|seats25=0|sc25=New

|party26=Tzipor|votes26=523|seats26=0|sc26=New

|invalid=21102

|total_sc=0

|electorate=3409015

|source=[https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/elections/1992/ IDI], Nohlen et al.

}}

{{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,[http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9602/israel_elex/index.html "Memory of Rabin likely to influence Israeli elections"] CNN, 5 February 1996 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).

• 1992 Israeli Labor Party leadership election
• 1992 Israeli Labor Party primary
• 1992 Likud leadership election

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{{reflist}}

• [https://www.knesset.gov.il/review/ReviewPage.aspx?kns=13&lng=3 Historical overview of the Thirteenth Knesset] Knesset website
• [https://www.knesset.gov.il/history/eng/eng_hist13_s.htm Election results] Knesset website

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