Eleventh Knesset

Elections for the 11th Knesset

← 1981 23 July 1984 1988 →

Party Leader % Seats ± Alignment Shimon Peres 34.9% 44 -3 Likud Yitzhak Shamir 31.9% 41 -7 Tehiya–Tzomet Yuval Ne'eman 4.0% 5 +2 Mafdal Yosef Burg 3.5% 4 -2 Hadash Meir Vilner 3.4% 4 0 Shas Yitzhak Peretz 3.1% 4 New Shinui Amnon Rubinstein 2.7% 3 +1 Ratz Shulamit Aloni 2.4% 3 +2 Yahad Ezer Weizman 2.2% 3 New Progressive List for Peace Mohammed Miari 1.8% 2 New Agudat Yisrael Avraham Yosef Shapira 1.7% 2 -2 Morasha Haim Drukman 1.6% 2 New Tami Aharon Abuhatzira 1.5% 1 -2 Kach Meir Kahane 1.2% 1 +1 Ometz Yigal Hurvitz 1.2% 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Yitzhak Shamir Likud Shimon Peres Alignment

Elections for the eleventh Knesset were held in Israel on 23 July 1984. Voter turnout was 78.8%. The results saw the Alignment return to being the largest party in the Knesset, a status it had lost in 1977. However, the party could not form a government with any of the smaller parties, resulting in a national unity government with Likud, with both party leaders, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, holding the post of Prime Minister for two years each.

¹ Five MKs broke away from the Alignment to establish Mapam and one to establish the Arab Democratic Party, whilst one MK defected to Ratz and one to Shinui.

² Yahad merged into the Alignment.

³Mordechai Virshubski defected from Shinui to Ratz.

⁴ Ometz and Tami merged into Likud.

⁵ One MK broke away from Tehiya to establish Tzomet.

⁶Haim Drukman defected from Morasha to the National Religious Party.

⁷Shimon Ben-Shlomo broke away from Shas.

⁸Muhammed Wattad defected from Mapam to Hadash.

Due to the stalemate produced by the elections, it was decided to form a national unity government, with the Alignment and Likud holding the leadership for two years each. The Alignment's Shimon Peres formed the twenty-first government on 13 September 1984, and as well as Likud, the coalition included the National Religious Party, Agudat Israel, Shas, Morasha, Shinui and Ometz. Aside from national unity governments created at a time of war (notably the government formed during the Six-Day War in the term of the sixth Knesset, which had 111 MKs), it was the largest ever government in Israeli political history, with 97 MKs.