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๐ฎ๐ฑ2026 FINAL Election Results Dashboard (Pending Verification)
With almost 94% of the votes counted, the election results confirm the picture from yesterday and from the exit polls: No bloc has achieved an overall majority.
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Where things stand right now, with just over 77% of the votes counted
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With 66% of the votes counted, Netanyahuโs Likud-led coalition appears to hold 54 mandates in the new Knesset, while all the opposition parties taken together hold 66.
This includes 19 mandates go to two Arab-majority lists, Raโam, and the Joint List.
๐ธ Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 (Illustrative photo from 2020)
๐ด Avigdor Libermanโs Yisrael Beiteinu has also returned eight mandates, despite rumours throughout the day yesterday that its support had collapsed. While other party leaders have made equivocal promises about their intentions, Liberman has been strident and unequivocal in his refusal to sit in a government with either Netanyahu or the Arab parties. His role in coalition negotiations could be pivotal if he reassess his stance.
๐ธ Tal Gal/Flash90
An overview of exit polls from @israel_elects.
All predict a hung Knesset, with no bloc achieving a majority on its own.
However, thereโs no consensus on which bloc is ahead.
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Summary of Tonight's Exit Polls - Netanyahu doesn't have a majority, but neither does the Opposition Bloc (even with Ra'am)
๐ณ๏ธ Israelโs elections are in full swing. Yashar leader and the main challenger to the current government, Gadi Eisenkot, cast his vote in Herzliya earlier today.
Eisenkot pledged this morning: โI commit to reconnecting Israel, to winning the wars and ensuring security for this wonderful people. This is the mission of my life.โ
๐ธ Chaim Goldberg/Flash90
๐ณ๏ธ Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara cast their votes at a polling station in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu urged voters to vote: โWe are the majority - go out and vote!!! If we don't go out to vote now, we'll regret it in the retreats and the dangerous laws that will come.โ
๐ธ Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
๐ณ๏ธ President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog voted at a polling station in Jerusalem.
Herzog said, โI hope and wish for this to be a genuinely festive day for democracy. This needs to be a festive day for democracy, and we wonโt let anyone ruin or sabotage it. Most of all, I call on all the citizens: We are all equal today. This is our day. To go and to influence and to vote.โ
๐ธ Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
