General Zionists Gain in Israel; .
First Place Retained by Histadrut
JERUSALEM, (ISD—Consider-
able gain by the General Zionist
party was the outstanding fea-
ture of the municipal elections
held throughout the country on
Nov. 14, although the Histadrut,
representing the Mapai party,
maintained first place in many
centers, with the notable excep-
tion of Tel Aviv.
Results in the three main
cities showed Histadrut leading
in Jerursalem and Haifa, and
the General Zionists in first
place in Tel Aviv, second in
Haifa and third in Jerusalem.
The General Zionists were vic-
torius in Nathanya, second in
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Hadera; and third in Raanana,
with Histadrut taking first place
in Hadera and Raanana and
second in Nathanya.
The victory of the General
Zionists in Tel Aviv assures the
re-election of Mayor Israel Ro-
kac h.
Although final tabulations
were not available at this writ-
ing since the soldier's vote was
still to be counted, results in the
main cities and a number of
typical local councils were as
follows (only those parties which
polled more than five percent
of the votes are listed):
JERUSALEM—Histadrut, 24%;
United Religious Front, 16%;
General Zionists, 15%; Herut,
11%; Progressives, 8% ; Poale
Agudat Israel, 5.5%.
TEL AVIV—General Zionists,
31%; Histadrut, 23%; Herut,
14% ; Mapam, 10%.
HAIFA—Histadrut, 33%; Gen-
eral Zionists, 22%; Mapam,
United Religious Front (exclud-
ing Mizrachi) 8%; Haifa Party
(Progressives, Sephardim, Wo-
men) 8%; Herut, 6%.
NATHANYA—General Zionists,
22%; Histadrut, 21%; Herut,
15%; Progressives, 11%; Mapam,
10%; Hapoel Hamizrachi, 10%.
H A D E R A—Histadrut, 33%;
General Zionists, 22%; Mapam,
14% ; Hapoel Hamizrachi, 7%;
two Yemenite lists together,
10%.
RAANANA—Histadrut, 32%;
Progressives, ?6%; General Zion-
ists, 15%; Mapam, 13%©; Poale
Aguclat Israel and Hapoel Ham-
izrachi, 13%.
In LYDDA, which is a typical
new immigrants' center with a
number of Arab inhabitants, the
results were: Histadrut, 40%;
Mapam, 18%; United Religious
Front, 13%; Arab Progressives,
10%; General Zionists, 6%;
Herat, 5%. The Communists
polled 7% in Lydda, probably
largely among the Arab opposi-
tion. The Communists did not -
poll more than 3% of the vote
in any of the main centers and
their average around the coun-
try was somewhat less.
Asserting that General Zion-
ists polled greater strength
than in the national elections
of 1949, that • party's leaders
called for new elections to the
Knesset (Parliament).
While General Zionists
showed urban strength,. Mapai
supporters pointed to the large
vote Labor candidates received
in the new immigrant centers.
The elections were held in 43 .
municipalities and local councils
for the first time in 15 years.'
The last elections in the major
municipalities took place in 1935.
The voting this week was by pro-
portional representation with
electors selecting the lists of
candidates, not individuals. 3,955
candidates competed for 527
seats in the 43 electoral areas.
Secret ballots were used.
A proclamation issued by
• the Federation of General Zi-
onist:3 this 14el.t. demanding
the holding of new Parliamen-
tary elections.
In Jerusalem, final distribu-
tion of municipal seats was
announced as follows: Mapai,
5; Ceneral Zionists„ 4; religi-
ous group..;, 6; Herut, 2; Pro-
gressive party, 2; Mapam, 1.
Mapai named Isaac Ben Zvi
as its candidate for mayor of
Jerusalem. Eli Eliashar is the
General Zionist candidate, S.
Z. Shragai is the religious
groups' candidate and Daniel
Auster is the Progressive can-
didate.
Mapam has issued an appeal
to form a united front in mu-
nicipalities and local councils
where the two parties form a
majority.
The number of councillors to
be elected was fixed by law pro-
portionate to the population in
each municipality and local
council, with the smallest coun-
cil consisting of 9 members and
the largest (Tel Aviv) 31. Jerus-
alem and Haifa have 21 council-
Fors, each.
The franchise has been con-
siderably extended since Man-
datory times. For example, in
Tel Aviv—Jaffa, only 23,000 per-
sons were eligible to vote in 1934
from a population of 110,000. In
the persent election there were
170,000 voters in a population of
310,000. In Jerusalem, 8,800 of
105,000 were eligible to vote in
1935, and 52,000 of 112,000 people
were eligible this week.
All persons who reached the
age of 18 years on Dec. 31, 1949,
were residents in their voting
areas for six months prior to
January 1, 1950, and still resi-
dent in the area at the time of
the election, were eligible to vote.
Special voting provisions were
made for soldiers on active ser-
vice.
Many lists of purely local in-
terests were submitted. The
United Religious Bloc, repre-
sented as a single party in the
Knesset (Parliament), presented
a united list only in Jerusalem.
In other centers individual re-
ligious parties and combinations
of these parties competed for
the votes. Mapai did not submit
its lists under the Mapai banner,
but its candidates appeared on
the Histadrut (General Federa-
tion of Labor) lists. Other Hist-
adrut parties — Mapam, Oved
Hazioni, and the Communists—
did not apear on the Histadrut
lists but submitted separate lists.
Voting proceeded throughout
the country in an orderly fash-
ion following days of lively poli-
tical interest with the various
parties competing for votes.
16—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 24, 1950
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Cabinet Seeks Four-Year
Term for Parliament
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —The Is-
rael parliament referred to its
legal committee the bill submit-
ted by the Cabinet fixing the
term of the present parliament
at four years and providing that
the next parliamentary elections
be held in January, 1953.
The issue has now become one
of the most controversial in the
country, in view of the fact that
the General Zionist Party, which
emerged with heavy gains in the
municipal elections on Tuesday,
is now demanding immediate
parliamentary elections. This
demand is being supported by
the right-wing Herut Party and
by the left-wing Socialist
Mapam Party. All of these three
groups are not represented in
the present Cabinet.
The entire press in Israel ack-
nowledges the fact that this
week's municipal elections repre-
sent a marked swing to the
right and put the General Zion-
ists in second place behind
Mapai, Israel's moderate Social-
ist party. Although final election
tallies are not yet available, the
Hebrew papers agree that Pre-
meir David Ben Gurion's Mapai
party lost ground in all impor-
tant urban centers while the
centrist General Zionists scored
sweeping gains.
On the whole, the Israel news-
papers agree that national elec-
tions should be held to select
a new parliament. Davar, how-
ever, stated that a nation wide
ballot "may differ radically from
the municipal elections, since
only about 400,000 persons went
to the polls, while double that
number would vote in a general
election, possibly with quite dif-
ferent results."
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