| Election Name: | 2003 Israeli Labor Party interim leadership election |
| Flag Image: | Logo haAwoda.svg |
| Type: | presidential |
| Previous Election: | 2002 Israeli Labor Party leadership election |
| Previous Year: | 2002 |
| Next Election: | 2005 Israeli Labor Party leadership election |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
| Election Date: | 19 June 2003 |
| Turnout: | 52% |
| Image1: | Shimon Peres - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2001 (1).jpg |
| Candidate1: | Shimon Peres |
| Popular Vote1: | 631 |
| Percentage1: | 49.65% |
| Candidate2: | Efraim Sneh |
| Popular Vote2: | 359 |
| Percentage2: | 28.25% |
| Image3: | Danny Atar (1).jpg |
| Candidate3: | Danny Atar |
| Popular Vote3: | 281 |
| Percentage3: | 22.11% |
| Leader | |
| Before Election: | Vacant (most recently Amram Mitzna) |
| After Election: | Shimon Peres (interim) |
| Party1: | Israeli Labor Party |
| Party2: | Israeli Labor Party |
| Party3: | Israeli Labor Party |
The 2003 Israeli Labor Party leadership election was held on 19 June 2003[1] to elect the leader of the Israeli Labor Party. It saw the party's Central Committee elect former prime minister and former longtime party leader Shimon Peres as the party's interim leader.
The leadership vote took place following Labor's heavy defeat in the 2003 Israeli legislative election held in January.[1] Quickly after this defeat, Amram Mitzna announced his resignation as party leader.[2]
Unlike the party's regular leadership elections since 1992 (which have been open to its general membership, with the exception of the 1995 leadership election held under extraordinary circumstances), the electorate of this election consisted only of members of the party's Central Committee.[1]
Peres won a strong victory over his two younger rivals. However, his margin of the vote was less than many had anticipated he would receive.[1] This was the fifth and final Israeli Labor Party leadership vote that Peres would win, after the 1977, April 1977, 1980, and 1984 leadership elections. It was also the eight Israeli Labor Party leadership election that Peres had run in, as, in addition to the aforementioned leadership elections that he won, he had unsuccessfully run in the 1974, February 1977, and 1992 leadership elections.[3] Peres would go on to unsuccessfully run in one final leadership election when he ran unsuccessfully in the following 2005 leadership election.