2021 Israeli legislative election

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Legislative elections were held in Israel to elect the members of the 24th Knesset on 23 March 2021.

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Note that the entire country constitutes a single electoral constituency. In Israel's proportional representation system, candidates represent national parties and not electoral districts or local constituencies. All registered Israeli citizens 18 years and over are entitled to vote. The 120 Knesset seats are then assigned in proportion to each party's percentage of the total national vote with the minimum required threshold for a party to be represented in the Knesset currently 3.25% of the total votes cast. In the 2021 election, with 4,410,052 valid votes, this represented a minimum of 143,327 votes.

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This Israeli legislative election

← 2020 23 March 2021
All 120 seats in the Knesset 61 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Seats Before Vote Count 25Mar Previous Opposition, Now the New Government Yesh Atid Liberalism Yair Lapid 16 17 Yamina Religious Nationalism Naftali Bennett 5 6 Blue and White Zionism Benny Gantz 15 8 Yisrael Beiteinu Revisionist Zionism Avigdor Lieberman 7 7 Labor Social Democracy Merav Michaeli 1 7 New Hope includes Derekh Eretz Economic Liberalism Gideon Sa'ar 2 6 Meretz Social Democracy Nitzan Horowitz 3 6 Ra'am Arab Interests (Thunder) Mansour Abbas 0 4 Total 49 61   Previous Coalition Likud Conservatism Benjamin Netanyahu 36 30 Religious Zionist Ultranational Zionism Bezalel Smotrich 0 6 Shas Religious Conservatism Aryeh Deri 9 9 UTJ Torah Judaism Yaakov Litzman 7 7 Labor (split) Social Democracy Amir Peretz Itzik Shmuli 2 0 Gesher Social Liberalism Orly Levy 1 0 Jewish Home Religious Nationalism Hagit Moshe 1 0 Total 56 52   Also in Opposition Joint List Arab Interests Ayman Odeh 15 6 Yamina (split) Religious Nationalism Amichai Chikli 0 1
New Prime Minister Previous Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Yamina Benjamin Netanyahu Likud

According to the coalition agreement signed between Likud and Blue and White in 2020, elections were to be held 36 months after the swearing-in of the 35th government, making 23 May 2023 the next election date. However, Israeli law stipulates that if the 2020 state budget was not passed by 23 December 2020, the Knesset would be dissolved and elections would be held by 23 March 2021.

On 2 December 2020, the Knesset passed the preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve the current government by a vote of 61–54. On 21 December 2020, the Knesset failed to pass a bill to avoid this dispersal by a vote of 47-49. Since the Knesset had failed to approve the 2020 state budget by the required deadline, at midnight IST on 23 December 2020, the government coalition collapsed and the 23rd Knesset was officially dissolved. In accordance with the law that the election must be held within 90 days after the dissolution of the Knesset, the date for elections to the 24th Knesset was automatically set for 23 March 2021.

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