1980 Israeli Labor Party leadership election

1980 Israeli Labor Party leadership election
18 December 1980
 
Candidate Shimon Peres Yitzhak Rabin
Popular vote 2,123 875
Percentage 70.81% 29.19%
Leader before election

Shimon Peres

 Elected Leader

Shimon Peres

The 1980 Israeli Labor Party leadership election was held on 18 December 1980. It saw the delegates to the party's convention reelect Shimon Peres as the party's leader. Peres defeated Yitzhak Rabin.

This was the third of four leadership contests in which Rabin and Peres faced each other (following the 1974 and February 1977 and preceding by the 1992 leadership elections).

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