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Knesset seats are allocated among the various parties using the D'Hondt method of party list proportional representation. A party or electoral alliance must pass an election threshold of 3.25% [ 25 ] of the overall vote to be allocated a Knesset seat (in 2022, one seat for every 152,000 votes).
One Druze lawmaker, 29 women, 23 new MKs and three openly gay MKs were elected to the 25th Knesset. [3] The number of Arab MKs was the lowest in two decades with 10 MKs. [4]On 30 June 2024, the Israeli Labor Party announced plans to merge with Meretz to become The Democrats, [5] with Labor MKs expected to become MKs for the new party; the merger was approved on 12 July. [6]
The extended period of political deadlock that led up to the election was the result of four inconclusive elections (April 2019, September 2019, 2020, and 2021).In April and September 2019, neither incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, nor leader of the main opposition party Blue and White, Benny Gantz, was able to muster a 61-seat governing majority, leading to fresh elections.
There have been Israeli Arab members of the Knesset ever since the first Knesset elections in 1949. The following is a list of the 100 past and present members. Some Israeli Druze dispute the label "Arab" and consider Druze to be a separate ethnic group.
Deri resigned from the Knesset as part of a plea bargain in a trial for tax offences [8] 24 February 2022: Eli Avidar: Yisrael Beiteinu: Sharon Roffe Ofir: Avidar returned to the Knesset after resigning from the cabinet [9] 15 May 2022: Matan Kahana: Yamina: Yomtob Kalfon: Kahana returned to the Knesset after resigning from the cabinet [10] 3 ...
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Cohen resigned from the Knesset after leaving Blue and White [9] 12 January 2021: Yizhar Shai: Blue and White: Ruth Wasserman Lande: Shai resigned from the government and gained back his seat through the Norwegian Law [10] 31 January 2021: Ruth Wasserman Lande: Blue and White: Ram Shefa: Shefa resigned from his Knesset seat and was replaced by ...
The 120 seats in the Knesset are elected by closed list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency. The electoral threshold for the election is 3.25%. In most cases, this implies a minimum party size of four seats, but it is mathematically possible for a party to pass the electoral threshold and have only three seats (since 3.25% of 120 members = 3.9 members).