1931 Assembly of Representatives Election

5 January 1931 · The Yishuv's assemblies · 71 seats

The Jewish National Council reduced the number of seats in the Assembly from 221 to 71, the same number of representatives in the ancient Great Sanhedrin. Voting was open to all naturalized Palestinian citizens who were registered as Jewish and at least 20 years old.

An internal election of the Jewish community under the British Mandate — a voluntary communal assembly, not a state legislature. Recorded here as the pre-state root of Israeli electoral politics.

Prime Minister before

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Prime Minister (continued)

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Largest force

Mapai

27 of 71 seats

Turnout

67.2%

The result

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Mapai

43.5% of votes

seats

Revisionists

16.3% of votes

seats

Sephardic Bloc

4.7% of votes

seats

Mizrachi–Hapoel HaMizrachi

8.3% of votes

seats

General Zionists

5.7% of votes

seats

Sephardic Revisionists

4.3% of votes

seats

Sephardic Workers

3.3% of votes

seats

Women's Association

3.8% of votes

seats


Mapai	—	27	—	21,497	43.5%	—
Revisionists	—	10	—	8,069	16.3%	—
Sephardic Bloc	—	6	—	2,301	4.7%	—
Mizrachi–Hapoel HaMizrachi	—	5	—	4,107	8.3%	—
General Zionists	—	5	—	2,841	5.7%	—
Sephardic Revisionists	—	5	—	2,121	4.3%	—
Sephardic Workers	—	4	—	1,653	3.3%	—
Women's Association	—	3	—	1,861	3.8%	—

6 further seats went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.