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Democratic Union

המחנה הדמוקרטי

Democratic Union was active from 2019 to 2020.

Blue and White: 33Likud: 32Joint List: 13Shas: 9Yisrael Beiteinu: 8United Torah Judaism: 7Yamina: 7Labor-Gesher: 6Democratic Union: 55of the 120 seats
Democratic Union won 5 of the 120 seats in the election of September 2019.

The Democratic Union was the left-wing list of Meretz, Ehud Barak's Israel Democratic Party and Stav Shaffir's Green Movement for the election of September 2019, in which it won five seats.

Shaffir left it in December 2019, and for 2020 Meretz joined Labor and Gesher instead.

Founded
25 July 2019
Ended
2020
Made up of
Meretz

The best result of Democratic Union since 2013 was 5 seats, in the election of September 2019.

Seats won in each Knesset election since 2013. Where Democratic Union ran inside a joint list, the column is the whole list's seats.

ElectionListVotesSeats
September 2019Democratic Union192,4955

The results are the Central Elections Committee's; 2026 is the committee's official results of 4 November 2026. The committee's results

In the election of September 2019, Democratic Union took its highest share of the vote in Kafr Qasim, 25.9%.

The five towns of at least 5,000 eligible voters where its list did best that year.

  1. Kafr Qasim25.9%
  2. Kiryat Tiv'on15.1%
  3. Tel Aviv-Yafo14.4%
  4. Binyamina-Giv'at Ada11.8%
  5. Givatayim11.3%

These parties are part of the story of Democratic Union.

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Frequently asked questions

When was Democratic Union founded?

Democratic Union was founded on 25 July 2019.

How many seats did Democratic Union win?

The best result of Democratic Union since 2013 was 5 seats, in the election of September 2019.

What were the ballot letters of Democratic Union?

In the election of September 2019, Democratic Union ran on the ballot letters מרצ.

Sources: English Wikipedia, Democratic Union (Israel), Hebrew Wikipedia, המחנה הדמוקרטי, the Central Elections Committee.