2001 Israeli Prime Ministerial Election
PM-only special election6 February 2001 · The direct-election experiment
Voter turnout was 62%, the lowest turnout for any national election held in Israel. The low turnout was at least partially due to many Israeli Arabs boycotting the elections in protest at the October 2000 events in which twelve Israeli Arabs were killed by the police.
A special election for prime minister only — no Knesset seats were contested. The sitting parliament stayed in place, and the direct-ballot system was abolished two years later.
Prime Minister before
Ehud Barak
Labor
Prime Minister after
Ariel Sharon
Likud
Largest force
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Turnout
62.3%
The surviving record for this contest does not include a party-by-party results table; the story above is what the sources support.