A leadership election was held by the Israeli Labor Party on 12 June 2007, to elect the party's new leader, due to internal dissatisfaction with the incumbent chairman Amir Peretz . The winner was Ehud Barak .[ 1]
2007 Israeli Labor Party leadership election Turnout 65.13% (first round)
Five candidates ran in the election: Ehud Barak attempted to return to politics,[ 2] Shimon Peres to Kadima ,[ 3] Ami Ayalon announced his ambition to become prime minister .[citation needed
Ofir Pines-Paz had been chairman of the coalition in the Fifteenth Knesset .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] 2006 election he was third in the Labor-Meimad list, after Peretz and Isaac Herzog .[ 7] Yisrael Beiteinu joined the coalition and Avigdor Lieberman was appointed minister, Pines-Paz resigned from the government.[ 8] [citation needed Danny Yatom ran in the election but came last in the first round of voting.[ 9]
The election consisted of two rounds, the first of which took place on 28 May 2007. Ehud Barak won a slim victory in the party primary, beating Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet domestic security service. Both candidates polled well ahead of Peretz, but neither gained the requisite 40-percent margin of victory for an outright win.[ 10] [ 9] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13]
Poll
Date
Barak
Ayalon
Peretz
Pines
Yatom
Other / Don't Know
Globes [ 14] 17 May 2007
35%
33%
15%
9%
2%
6%
Poll
Date
Barak
Ayalon
Other / Don't Know
Rafi Smith Institute[ 15]
6 June 2007
49%
44%
7%
In the first round, Ayalon won a plurality of votes in the Kibbutzim , while Peretz won a plurality of Arab Voters.[ 16]
Candidate First round Second round Votes % Votes % Ehud Barak 23,887 35.63 34,542 51.29 Ami Ayalon 20,514 30.60 32,117 47.69 Amir Peretz 15,037 22.43 Ophir Pines-Paz 5,330 7.95 Danny Yatom 1,806 2.69 Blank votes 462 0.69 683 1.01 Total 67,036 100.00 67,342 100.00 Valid votes 67,036 99.38 67,342 99.68 Invalid votes 418 0.62 218 0.32 Total votes 67,454 100.00 67,560 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 103,568 65.13 64.5 Source: Globes,[ 17] [ 9] [ 13] [ 18]
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