Ahdut HaAvoda
He retained his seat in the July 1951 elections, but on 20 January 1953, he and Hannah Lamdan broke away from the party to form the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda (several other Mapam MKs had broken away to re-establish Ahdut HaAvoda). On 13 January 1954 Livschitz and Lamdan joined Mapai.