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Elections for the 13th Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The election resulted in the formation of a Labor government, led by Yitzhak Rabin, helped by the failure of several small right wing parties to pass the electoral threshold. [1] Voter turnout was 77.4%. [2]
The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 12th Knesset.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Labor Party | 906,810 | 34.65 | 44 | +5 | |
| Likud | 651,229 | 24.89 | 32 | −8 | |
| Meretz | 250,667 | 9.58 | 12 | +2 | |
| Tzomet | 166,366 | 6.36 | 8 | +6 | |
| National Religious Party | 129,663 | 4.95 | 6 | +1 | |
| Shas | 129,347 | 4.94 | 6 | 0 | |
| United Torah Judaism | 86,167 | 3.29 | 4 | −3 | |
| Hadash | 62,546 | 2.39 | 3 | −1 | |
| Moledet | 62,269 | 2.38 | 3 | +1 | |
| Arab Democratic Party | 40,788 | 1.56 | 2 | +1 | |
| Tehiya | 31,957 | 1.22 | 0 | −3 | |
| Progressive List for Peace | 24,181 | 0.92 | 0 | −1 | |
| New Liberal Party | 16,669 | 0.64 | 0 | New | |
| Geulat Yisrael | 12,851 | 0.49 | 0 | New | |
| Da | 11,697 | 0.45 | 0 | New | |
| Pensioners, Immigrants and Senior Citizens | 8,327 | 0.32 | 0 | New | |
| Movement for Mortgage Affected, Homeless and Demobilised Soldiers | 5,962 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 | |
| Pikanti | 3,750 | 0.14 | 0 | New | |
| Torah VeAretz | 3,708 | 0.14 | 0 | New | |
| On Wheels | 3,355 | 0.13 | 0 | New | |
| Women's Party | 2,886 | 0.11 | 0 | New | |
| Hatikva | 2,053 | 0.08 | 0 | New | |
| Natural Law Party | 1,734 | 0.07 | 0 | New | |
| Tali | 1,336 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
| Tzipor | 523 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 2,616,841 | 100.00 | 120 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 2,616,841 | 99.20 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 21,102 | 0.80 | |||
| Total votes | 2,637,943 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 3,409,015 | 77.38 | |||
| Source: IDI, Nohlen et al. | |||||
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