| Election Name: | 2019 Meretz leadership election |
| Flag Image: | Meretz Logo.svg |
| Country: | Israel |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2018 Meretz leadership election |
| Previous Year: | 2018 |
| Next Election: | 2022 Meretz leadership election |
| Next Year: | 2022 |
| Election Date: | 27 June 2019 |
| Candidate1: | Nitzan Horowitz |
| Party1: | Meretz |
| Popular Vote1: | 459 |
| Percentage1: | 54.51% |
| Candidate2: | Tamar Zandberg |
| Party2: | Meretz |
| Popular Vote2: | 383 |
| Percentage2: | 45.49% |
| Meretz leader | |
| Before Election: | Tamar Zandberg |
| Posttitle: | Meretz leader |
| After Election: | Nitzan Horowitz |
An election was held for the leadership of the Meretz party on 27 June 2019 at the party's conference. Nitzan Horowitz unseated incumbent leader Tamar Zandberg.
By winning the election, Horowitz became the first openly gay individual to ever lead a party in Israel's Knesset.[1]
Per the rules of the party, if a second Knesset election is held during the term of the party's chairman, the party conference will choose a forum in which they will then hold another leadership election, as well as primaries to select its party list candidates. The election took place ahead of an upcoming legislative election in September. The conference decided to hold the primary internally, with its members voting on candidates.[2]
Unlike in the last leadership election the party had held, in 2019, the vote was only open to the roughly 1,000 members of the party conference.[3]