| Election Name: | 2008 Meretz leadership election |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2004 Meretz leadership election |
| Previous Year: | 2004 |
| Next Election: | 2012 Meretz leadership election |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
| Election Date: | 18 March 2008 |
| Image1: | Haim Oron 2006 (1).jpg |
| Candidate1: | Haim Oron |
| Popular Vote1: | 5,709 |
| Percentage1: | 54.5% |
| Candidate2: | Ran Cohen |
| Popular Vote2: | 2,830 |
| Percentage2: | 27.1% |
| Image3: | Zahava Galon (3x4 a).jpg |
| Candidate3: | Zehava Galon |
| Popular Vote3: | 1,891 |
| Percentage3: | 18.1% |
| Leader | |
| Before Election: | Yossi Beilin |
| After Election: | Haim Oron |
| Turnout: | 72.95% |
| Party1: | Meretz |
| Party2: | Meretz |
| Party3: | Meretz |
The 2008 Meretz leadership election was held on 18 March 2008.
After Oron declared that he would run for party leader, incumbent party leader Yossi Beilin withdrew from the election.
The election was open to all members of the party. If no candidate had secured an outright majority of the vote in the initial round, a runoff election would have been held.
On the day of the election, Cohen filed a complaint with the party's election committee alleging irregularities at some polling stations. 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.
Around 75% of party members participated in the election. Oron won the outright majority required to forgo a runoff election, winning the party's leadership outright in the initial round of voting.[1] [2]