Meretz
מרצ
Meretz was active from 1992 to 2024.
Meretz was a social democratic and secular party, formed in 1992 as an alliance of Ratz, Mapam and Shinui and made one party in 1997. It stood for a two-state solution, human rights and religious freedom.
Its best result was 12 seats in 1992. In 2022 it fell under the threshold, the only time it was left out of the Knesset, and in 2024 it merged with Labor into The Democrats.
- Founded
- 1992
- Ended
- 12 July 2024
- Joint lists
- Labor-Gesher-Meretz, Democratic Union
The best result of Meretz since 2013 was 6 seats, in the election of 2021.
Seats won in each Knesset election since 2013. Where Meretz ran inside a joint list, the column is the whole list's seats.
On its own listThe whole joint list it ran inside
| Election | List | Letters | Votes | Share | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Meretz | מרצ | 150,793 | 3.2% | 0 |
| 2021 | Meretz | מרצ | 202,218 | 4.6% | 6 |
| 2020 | Labor-Gesher-Meretz | אמת | 267,480 | 5.8% | 7 |
| September 2019 | Democratic Union | מרצ | 192,495 | 4.3% | 5 |
| April 2019 | Meretz | מרצ | 156,473 | 3.6% | 4 |
| 2015 | Meretz | מרצ | 165,529 | 3.9% | 5 |
| 2013 | Meretz | מרץ | 172,403 | 4.5% | 6 |
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 2022, Meretz took its highest share of the vote in Beit Jann, 61.6%.
The five towns of at least 5,000 eligible voters where its list did best that year.
- Beit Jann61.6%
- Tel Aviv-Yafo10.9%
- Kiryat Tiv'on10.7%
- Givatayim8.6%
- Isfiya8.5%
These parties are part of the story of Meretz.
- Labor-Gesher-MeretzLabor-Gesher-Meretz was the centre-left list of three parties, Labor, Gesher and Meretz, for the election of March 2020, led by Amir Peretz.
- Democratic UnionThe 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.
- The DemocratsThe Democrats is a social democratic, Zionist party formed in 2024, when the Labor Party and Meretz merged.
- LaborThe Israeli Labor Party was founded in January 1968 by the merger of Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda and Rafi, the parties of the labour movement that had led the country since it was founded.
Frequently asked questions
When was Meretz founded?
Meretz was founded in 1992.
How many seats did Meretz win?
The best result of Meretz since 2013 was 6 seats, in the election of 2021.
What were the ballot letters of Meretz?
In the election of 2022, Meretz ran on the ballot letters מרצ.
Sources: English Wikipedia, Meretz, Hebrew Wikipedia, מרצ, the Central Elections Committee.