2007 Israeli Labor Party leadership election

The 2007 Israeli Labor Party leadership election was held on 12 June 2007, to elect a new leader for the Israeli Labor Party due to internal dissatisfaction with the incumbent chairman Amir Peretz. The winner was Ehud Barak.[1]

2007 Israeli Labor Party leadership election
28 May 2007 (first round)
12 June 2007 (second round)
Turnout65.13% (first round)
64.5% (second round)
 
Candidate Ehud Barak Ami Ayalon
Popular Vote 34,542 32,117
Percentage 51.29% 47.7%
Leader before election

Amir Peretz

 Elected Leader

Ehud Barak

History

Five candidates ran in the elections: Ehud Barak attempted to return to politics, this time after the move of Shimon Peres to Kadima, while Ami Ayalon announced his ambition to become prime minister.

Ofir Pines-Paz had been chairman of the coalition and chairman of the One Israel parliamentary group in the Fifteenth Knesset. He was the party's secretary-general in 2001-2003. In the 2006 election he was third in the Labor-Meimad list, after Peretz and Isaac Herzog.[2] When Yisrael Beiteinu joined the coalition and Avigdor Lieberman was appointed minister, Pines-Paz resigned from the government.[3] His resignation took effect on November 1, 2006. Danny Yatom ran in these elections but came last in the first round of voting.[4]

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.[5] Peretz, then the Incumbent leader of the party, came third and did not advance to the second round.[4] he subsequently endorsed Ayalon,[6] while Pines-Paz endorsed Barak.[7] Barak won the second round with 51.3% of the vote to Ayalon's 47.7%, with 1% of voters abstaining.[8]

Polling

First Round
Poll Date Barak Ayalon Peretz Pines Yatom Other / Don't Know
Globes[9] 17 May 2007 35% 33% 15% 9% 2% 6%

Second Round
Poll Date Barak Ayalon Other / Don't Know
Rafi Smith Institute[10] 6 June 2007 49% 44% 7%

Results
Candidate First round[4] Second round[8]
Votes % Votes %
Turnout:
65.13%[4]
64.5%[11]
Ehud BarakY 23,887 35.43% 34,542 51.29%
Ami Ayalon 20,514 30.41% 32,117 47.7%
Amir Peretz (incumbent) 15,037 22.29%
Ophir Pines-Paz 5,330 7.9%
Danny Yatom 1,806 2.67%
Abstaining 880 1.3% 683 1.01%
Total 67,454 N/A 67,342 N/A

References
  1. "Israeli Labor Party". Haaretz. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  2. "רשימות המועמדים לכנסת ה-17" (PDF). Israel Democracy Institute (in Hebrew). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  3. שומפלבי, אטילה (2006-10-30). "פינס: אני מתפטר, אתמודד על ראשות המפלגה". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  4. שומפלבי, אטילה (2007-05-28). "אהוד ברק ועמי אילון הולכים לסיבוב שני". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  5. "Israeli Labor Party Leader Ousted". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  6. ברשקובסקי, ענת (2007-06-05). "אילון: אצלנו העבודה לא תבקש סליחה". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  7. שומפלבי, אטילה (2007-06-06). "פינס: ברק מציב רף מוסרי - אני איתו". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  8. שומפלבי, אטילה (2007-06-12). "ברק בנאום הניצחון: "היום מתחיל מסע התיקון"". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  9. "סקר "גלובס": ברק מוביל על איילון בסיבוב הראשון". Globes (in Hebrew). 2007-05-17. Archived from the original on 2022-04-19. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  10. ynet (2007-06-06). "סקר: אילון מוביל על ברק בפער קטן". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  11. הכרמל, פורטל. "אהוד ברק הוא היו"ר החדש של מפלגת העבודה". פורטל הכרמל והצפון (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-04-19.
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