Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Council election

Hamas takes 74 of 132 seats in the PLC election, ending decades of Fatah dominance and precipitating the Western boycott of the PA government. The Battle of Gaza eighteen months later was the direct sequel.

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Sources

www.bbc.co.uk — BBC profile of Hamas, PLC vote section

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In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Council election [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/0519e2b0-06c5-4237-89ca-46a7e83126d2

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Council election." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/0519e2b0-06c5-4237-89ca-46a7e83126d2.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-0519e2b0-06c5-4237-89ca-46a7e83126d2,
  title     = {{Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Council election}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/0519e2b0-06c5-4237-89ca-46a7e83126d2},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {Event date: 2006-01-25. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2006-01-25. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.