Party divisions of the Yisraeli Knesset
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Introduction
Kingdom of Yisrael
Fourth Party System (2019-Present)
| Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP | CLP2 | TA | AY | AfY | AGSW2 | LNJ | NLP2 | PL2 | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
| 49th | 2020-2022 | 64 | 14-131/13-02 | 19 | 17-181 | 25-262 | 1-02 | 2 | 0-82 | 0-52 | 0 | 0 | Yitzchok Katz | Blue-Silver-Maroon coalition | +43 (to UCB's 42 seats)/ +28 (to all minority parties) | ||
Footnotes
1. Centrist Con-Lib MK Shaul Goldfarb defected to the Action Yisrael party in the United Center Bloc on December 2, 2020, reducing the Con-Libs from 14 to 13 MKs.
2. On April 27, 2021, the Constitutional Liberal Party dissolved itself, with the establishment and nationalist wings forming the National Liberals and the far-left populists merging with the Alliance of of Greens, Seculars, and Workers to form the Party of the Left. Of the former Con-Lib sitting Members of Knesset, 8 joined the Nat-Libs, 4 (along with the Alliance's 1) joined the Party of the Left, and 1 (former Con-Lib Knesset leader Yaakov Luzzatto) defected to the AfY.
Third Party System (1974-2019)
| Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP | CLP | TA | AY | AfY1 | AGSW | LNJ | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
| 48th | 2018-2020 | 59 | 42-321 | 16 | 12 | 0-101 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Noah Feldman | Blue-Gray-Maroon coalition | +4/ +20 (with supply and confidence from Torah Achdus) | ||
| Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP | CLP | TA | AY | AGSW | LNJ | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
| 47th | 2016-2018 | 64 | 39 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 2 | Noah Feldman | Blue-Maroon coalition | +32 | ||
| 46th | 2014-2016 | 41 | 66 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Gold-Gray-Green-White coalition | +5 | |||
| 45th | 2012-2014 | 64 | 48 | 16 | 5 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Blue-Silver coalition | +8 | |||
| Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP | CLP | TA | AY4 | GP | YLP | LNJ | YCA5 | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
| 44th | 2010-2012 | 58 | 51 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 46 | Eitan Herzog | Blue-Silver coalition | +2 | ||
| Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP | CLP | TA | GP | YLP | LNJ | YCA | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
| 43rd | 2008-2010 | 52 | 60 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | Eitan Herzog | Gold-Green-Pink-White coalition | +1 | ||
| 42nd | 2006-2008 | 577 | 577 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 08 | 4 | 5 | 0 | Gold-Green-Pink-White coalition | +17 | |||
| Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP | CLP | TA | GP | YLP | NUP | YCA | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
| 41st | 2004-2006 | 46-4510 | 66-6710 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Eitan Herzog | Gold-Green-Pink coalition | +4/+510 | ||
Footnotes
1. The Alternative for Yisrael split off from the Constitutional Liberal Party on November 7, 2019, at the end of the 48th term of Knesset and about two months from the 2020 general elections. 10 sitting Con-Lib MKs defected to the new party.
2. Torah Achdus neither sat in the opposition nor had a supply and confidence agreement with the ruling Conservatives.
3. The smaller Green Party and Yisraeli Labor Party merged together on February 8th, 2012, three weeks after the 2012 elections, combining their 4 seats (3 Greens, 1 Labor Party).
4. The Action Yisrael party was formed on May 24th, 2009, in advance of the 2010 elections.
5. The YCA was found to have illegal ties to anti-Yisrael terrorist groups the Christian Defense League and the Free Yarden Valley Catholic Front in the aftermath of the 2011 Yericho riots. Its MKs were arrested by the YeMep and the party banned under the Domestic Subversive Organizations Act before the 2012 elections.
6. None of the vacancies resulted in a change of partisan affiliation. All the seats were filled by persons of the same party.
7. Vice-President Oren Waltenstein would often be required to stay on premises for Knesset votes to cast the deciding vote due to the evenly-split Knesset between HRM Government led by the Con-Lib-Green-Labor-YCA-Indep. coalition (71) and HRM Opposition of the Conservatives and their allies the Torah Achdus party (71).
8. The Northern League, although in existence since 1974, had no won any seats since the 1980s. The party had a leadership election in February 14th, 2006, and elected David Touro as party chairman. Touro rebranded the party as "far right lite" and moderated the more extreme stances of the party as well as recruited credible right-wing activists and buildt needed campaign infrastructure in the Yarden River Valley and ethnic Tarsan Jewish areas to field successful candidates for the next election cycle.
9. The right-wing National Union merged with the Royalist Conservatives several months before the 2006 elections.
10. Avigdor Korvo, an MK from Ashkelon, party-switched several days after the election from Conservative to Con-Lib and was given a prominent role on the Knesset Appropriations Committee.