Mayoral elections in Haifa

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Elections are held in Haifa to elect the city's mayor. Currently, such elections are regularly scheduled to elect mayors to five-year terms.

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Prior to 1978, mayors were selected by a vote of the city council. Since 1978, direct elections have been held for mayor. [1]

1978

The 1978 Haifa mayoral election was held on 7 November 1978, [2] and saw the election Aryeh Gur'el.

1978 Haifa mayoral election results [2]
CandidatePartyVotes%
Aryeh Gur'el Labor 46,45050.66
Amnon Linn 23,06025.15
Zvi Zimmerman 15,77117.20
Moshe Rofe6,4076.99
Total91,688100

1983

The 1983 Haifa mayoral election was held on 25 October 1983, [3] and saw the reelection Aryeh Gur'el.

Gur'el's strongest opponent was Yael Rom, a pioneering female pilot in the Israeli Air Force. While she was a member of Likud, Rom ran for mayor in affiliation with an independent party list that was running in the coinciding city council elections. [4]

1983 Haifa mayoral election results [3]
CandidatePartyVotes%
Aryeh Gur'el (incumbent) Labor 58,52163.36
Yael Rom 16,34217.69
Yom Tov Elkayam8,1628.84
Yehudit Naot Shinui 6,1666.68
Nahum Menachem3,1693.43
Total92,360100

1989

The 1989 Haifa mayoral election was held on 28 February 1989, [5] and saw the reelection Aryeh Gur'el to a third consecutive term.

1989 Haifa mayoral election results [5]
CandidatePartyVotes%
Aryeh Gur'el (incumbent) Labor 42,21742.31
Rami Dotan Likud 38,29238.38
Yehudit Naot Shinui 12,91712.94
Pinhas Narkis4,1544.16
Shlom Azulay2,2032.21
Total99,783100

1993

The 1993 Haifa mayoral election was held on 2 November 1993, [6] and saw the election of Amram Mitzna.

Labor Party primary

In the primary election for the Israeli Labor Party nomination, third-term incumbent mayor Aryeh Gur'el was defeated by challenger Amram Mitzna. [7]

Mitzna won 63% of the vote to Gur'el's 37% in the primary, held on May 18, 1993. [7] The primary campaign between the two had been tense. [7]

After losing the primary, Gur'el announced that he would consider running in the general election as an independent candidate. [7]

General election

Since Haifa was considered a stronghold of the Labor Party, Mitzna entered the general election as its front-runner. [7]

1993 Haifa mayoral election results [6]
CandidatePartyVotes%
Amram Mitzna Labor 50,26958.66
Narkis Pinchas14,24916.63
Avraham Golhand10,99612.83
Moses Statman6,7307.85
Yehudit Naot 3,4564.03
Total85,700100

1998

The 1998 Haifa mayoral election was held on 10 November 1998, [8] and saw the reelection Amram Mitzna. [9]

1998 Haifa mayoral election results [8]
CandidatePartyVotes%
Amram Mitzna (incumbent) Labor 56,91264.07
Ed Amom13,98515.74
Shmuel Gelbart9,24210.40
Rami Levy6,5027.32
Shlomo Atari1,4921.68
Pinhas Narkis6970.79
Total88,830100

2003

The 2003 Haifa mayoral election was held on 28 October 2003 to elect the mayor of Haifa. It saw the election of Yona Yahav.

The election marked the first time that the Israeli Labor Party lost control of Haifa's mayoralty, as it and its predecessors had run the city since the 1940s. [10] Haifa had been considered the party's most consistent stronghold. [10] Labor was without a candidate, after their nominee, Aliza Shenhar, having poor support, dropped-out of the race three days before the election and endorsed Yahav. [10] Yahav, who had formerly been a Labor member of the Knesset, ran a campaign affiliated with Shinui-Greens-Neighborhoods Union, which also ran a party list in the city council. [10] [11] [12] Yahav had originally pursued Labor's nomination. [10]

Likud nominee, retired general Shmuel Arad, had been considered the front-runner of the election. [10] Arad received a greater vote share than any previous Likud mayoral candidate had ever received in Haifa. [10] He had been expected to perform strongly in the city after Labor had Likud placed first in the city in the preceding 2003 Israeli legislative election, the first time in its history that the party had done so. [10]

2003 Haifa mayoral election results [13]
CandidateVotes%
Yona Yahav 41,64451.88%
Shmuel Arad34,41242.87%
Shimon Ohayon1,2171.55%
Total77,237100

2008

The 2008 Haifa mayoral election was held on 11 November 2008 to elect the mayor of Haifa. It saw the reelection of Yona Yahav.

It was part of the 2008 Israeli municipal elections. Yahav defeated challenger Ya'acov Borovsky.

2008 Haifa mayoral election results [14]
CandidateVotes%
Yona Yahav (incumbent)42,19247.1%
Ya'acov Borovsky33,25137.1%
Israel Ya'akov Savyon3,6234.0%
Rami Levy3,2593.6%
Walid Hamis2,8113.1%
Shmuel Glabhart2,6853.0%
Boris Lazarav1,7862.0%
Total89,607100

2013

The 2013 Haifa mayoral election was held on 22 October 2013 to elect the mayor of Haifa. It saw the reelection of Yona Yahav to a third consecutive term.

It was part of the 2013 Israeli municipal elections.

The city saw turnout exceeding 40%. [15]

2013 Haifa mayoral election results [16]
CandidateVotes%
Yona Yahav (incumbent)40,07749.01%
Yaakov Borowski24,21429.61%
Einat Kalisch-Rotem 11,60714.19%
Itay Glboa4,5095.51%
Zeev Silas1,3741.68%
Total81,781100

2018

The 2018 Haifa mayoral election was held on 30 October 2018 to elect the mayor of Haifa. It saw the election of Einat Kalisch-Rotem, who unseated incumbent mayor Yona Yahav. Kalisch-Rotem would become the first female mayor of Haifa, making Haifa the largest city in Israel, and first major Israeli city, to ever have a female mayor. [17] [18]

The election was part of the 2018 Israeli municipal elections.

Candidates

Results

CandidateParty nameVotes%
Einat Kalisch-Rotem Living in Haifaחיים בחיפה‎, Haim BeHeifa66,48656.21%
Yona Yahav (incumbent)Yona Yahav and Haifa's Youthיונה יהב וצעירי חיפה‎, Yona Yahav VeTze'irei Heifa43,90737.12%
Avihu HanHaifa Greensהירוקים של חיפה‎, HaYerukim Shel Heifa3,7873.20%
Mendi SalzmannHaifa Awakensחיפה מתעוררת‎, Heifa Mit'oreret2,5852.19%
Israel Ya'akov SavyonLovers of Haifaאוהבי חיפה‎, Ohavei Heifa1,5061.27%
Source: Ministry of the Interior [21]

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