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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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🇮🇱2026 Election Results Dashboard - 6.2% of Votes Remaining

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Where things stand right now, with just over 77% of the votes counted

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Counting the votes cast in precincts should be done by the end of today. However, the count of votes cast in a double envelope will take an extra day or two.

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🗳️ 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 🧵

With 66% of the votes counted, Netanyahu’s 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, Ra’am, and the Joint List.

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🔴 Avigdor Liberman’s 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.

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Check grammar: However, Channel 16, i24 and Channel 14 predictsNetanyahu-bloc to be ahead.

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An overview of exit polls from @israel_elects.

All predict a hung Knesset, with no bloc achieving a majority on its own.

However, there’s no consensus on which bloc is ahead.

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According to Channel 13, Channel 12 and Kan, the pro-change 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)

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🗳️ President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog voted at a polling station in Jerusalem.

Herzog said, “I hope and wish for this to be a genuinely festive day for democracy. This needs to be a festive day for democracy, and we won’t 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.”

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🗳️ Israel’s 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: “I commit to reconnecting Israel, to winning the wars and ensuring security for this wonderful people. This is the mission of my life.”

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🗳️ Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara cast their votes at a polling station in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu urged voters to vote: “We 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.”

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