Yossi Beilin Haim Oron The 2008 Meretz leadership election was held on 18 March 2008.

[1] After Oron declared that he would run for party leader, incumbent party leader Yossi Beilin withdrew from the election.

[1] If no candidate had secured an outright majority of the vote in the initial round, a runoff election would have been held.

Galon demanded that three polling stations located in Deir al-Asad have their votes discounted, alleging that her campaign's representatives were blocked from overseeing the voting there and were physically assaulted.

[1] Oron won the outright majority required to forgo a runoff election, winning the party's leadership outright in the initial round of voting.