The results of the Histadrut elections yesterday were made public today and revealed a tremendous victory for the Mapai, the Israel Labor Party, Of the 500,000 members of Histadrut. Israel’s Federation of Labor, only 75 percent participated in the elections.
Of the total votes cast, the Mapai received 60 percent, compared with 57 percent received in the last election. The L’Achdut Avodah group received 16 percent and the Mapam secured 12 percent. In the last elections these two groups received together, on the united Mapam list, 34 percent of the total vote. The Communists received four percent which is one-half percent more than in the last elections.
The Progressives, known as Haoved Hazioni, and the General Zionist laborites each received two-and-a-half percent of the total vote. The religious laborites received an even smaller fraction of the votes cast. Slight changes are still possible when the count in all the 1,800 polls throughout the country is completed, but the overall picture will not change since the count is practically complete.
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