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Israeli legislative election, 1973
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The Elections for the eighth Knesset were held on 31 December, 1973.
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| Party | % of vote | Seats at start of session | Seats at end of session |
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| Alignment 1 4 5 6 | 39.6% | 51 | 49 |
| Likud 2 | 30.2% | 39 | 40 |
| National Religious Party | 8.3% | 10 | 10 |
| Religious Torah Front 3 | 3.8% | 5 | 0 |
| Independent Liberals 2 | 3.6% | 4 | 3 |
| Rakah | 3.4% | 4 | 4 |
| Ratz 1 | 2.2% | 3 | 2 |
| Progress and Development 4 | 1.4% | 2 | 0 |
| Moked | 1.4% | 1 | 1 |
| Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers 4 | 1.0% | 1 | 0 |
| United Arab List 4 | - | 0 | 3 |
| Agudat Israel 3 | - | 0 | 3 |
| Agudat Israel Workers 3 | - | 0 | 2 |
| Independent Socialist Faction 1 | - | 0 | 2 |
| Mordechai Ben-Porat 5 | - | 0 | 1 |
| Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement 1 | - | 0 | 0 |
| Mapam 6 | - | 0 | 0 |
1 Arie Lova Eliav left the Alignment and merged with Ratz to form Ya'ad - Civil Rights Movement. The new party later broke up when Eliav and Marcia Freedman left to set up the Independent Socialist Faction, whilst Shulamit Aloni and Boaz Moav returned to Ratz.
2 Hillel Seidel defected from the Independent Liberals to Likud.
3 The Relgious Torah Front broke up into Agudat Israel and Agudat Israel Workers.
4 Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers merged into the Alignment (with which they were already associated) before breaking away to form the United Arab List.
5 Mordechai Ben-Porat broke away from the Alignment and remained a single MK.
6 Mapam broke away from the Alignment but rejoined it soon after.
The following parties ran in the election, but did not cross the 1% electoral threshold:
Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the sixteenth government on 10 March, 1974, including the National Religous Party and the Independent Liberals in her coalition, with 22 ministers. Meir resigned on 11 April 1974 after the Agranat Commission had published its interim report on the Yom Kippur War.
The Alignment's Yitzhak Rabin formed the seventeenth government on 3 June, 1974, including Ratz, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers. The new government had 19 ministers. The National Religious Party joined the coalition on 30 October and Ratz left on the 6 November, by which time there were 21 ministers.
The government resigned on 22 December, 1976, after ministers of the National Religous Party were sacked because the party had abstained from voting on a motion of no confidence, which had been brought by Agudat Israel over a breach of the Sabbath on an Israeli Air Force base.
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