Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elections for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July 1955. Voter turnout was 82.8%. Mapai retained its plurality in the Knesset, although its share of the vote dropped by 5.1 and its share of seats dropped from 47 (at the end of the Second Knesset) to 40. Meanwhile, Herut overtook the General Zionists, Mapam, and Hapoel HaMizrachi to become the second-larget party, with its share of seats nearly doubling (from 8 in the Second Knesset to 15 in the Third).