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Four real elections and a sandbox. Drag the vote, watch 120 seats fall, and try to build 61. Positions are live from Tayyar.

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Election night · 27 October

The final count

Final count: 5,697,290 votes from 12,884 ballot boxes · committee figures as of 19:20

Count · ~100% of votes
Kan 11
N12
Channel 13
CoalitionChangeArab61
Party Seatsif it stopped here Count% of valid votes Kan 11exit poll N12exit poll Channel 13exit poll
Likud 27 20.51 252425
Yashar! 21 16.06 212223
Together 12 9.33 141214
Joint List 11 8.80 101110
The Democrats 8 6.44 1099
Raʿam 8 5.92 777
Yisrael Beiteinu 7 5.93 897
Otzma Yehudit 7 5.74 77†6†
UTJ 7 5.50 677
Shas 6 5.26 666
Religious Zionism–Zehut 6 5.09 666
The Reservists · 2.72 ···
Amcha Yisrael · 1.68 ···
Haredi Public · 0.19 ···
Blue & White · 0.00 ···
Other lists · 0.82

Seats are what the votes counted so far would give under the real rules: the 3.25% threshold on all valid votes, D’Hondt, and the five surplus-vote agreements. Places report at different speeds and the double-envelope votes (soldiers, diplomats, hospitals, prisons) are counted last, so the shares can still move a long way. The share counted is measured against the committee’s turnout at the close, 77.7%.

† N12, Channel 13: Otzma Yehudit’s figure is the channel’s Netanyahu-bloc total minus its four other lists; the reports used do not state it.

Exit polls published at 22:00, as reported: Kan 11, N12, Channel 13. Count: Central Elections Committee, votes26.bechirot.gov.il. Final results are published in the official gazette by 4 November and may change until then.

Kingmakers · on the final count

Roads to 61

Seats from the committee’s count as of 19:20. Every number here moves with the count.

Everyone drew red lines during the campaign, and the way I read them, they leave nobody at 61 on this count. The change bloc has ruled out the Haredi parties over the draft and, at least for now, the Arab lists too. Lieberman won’t sit with the Arab lists at all, Raʿam won’t sit with Likud, and Ben-Gvir and Smotrich won’t sit with Raʿam. Not much survives all that, and what does is priced below on the count as it stands, with a button that builds it in the machine.

Where the red lines leave everyone

Netanyahu’s bloc53 seats · 8 short
Change bloc48 seats · 13 short
Arab lists19 seats

Neither bloc gets to 61 without crossing a line it drew itself. Netanyahu’s bloc is short, and every list that could close the gap either refuses to sit with the Haredi parties or is an Arab list, which Ben-Gvir and Smotrich won’t sit with and which, in Raʿam’s case, won’t sit with Likud either. With Feiglin now running on Smotrich’s list, that bloc is also further right than the outgoing government, which took some doing. The change bloc has ruled out both groups that could carry it over. The Arab lists say they are willing, and for now nobody is taking them up on it.

Lieberman’s road

67a majority
Likud27Yashar!21Yisrael Beiteinu7Together12

The talk this week is that Lieberman has stopped taking the change bloc’s calls and wants Netanyahu and Eisenkot in one government, without the Haredi parties, the Arab lists or Ben-Gvir. Likud, Yashar! and Yisrael Beiteinu come to 55 on their own, so it needs Bennett’s Together as well. It has happened before, sort of: in 2013 Netanyahu governed with Lapid and Bennett and without the Haredi parties, and that government passed a draft law. The hard part is Netanyahu walking away from the Haredi parties and Ben-Gvir, and Eisenkot, who left Netanyahu’s emergency government in 2024, agreeing to go back in. Put Smotrich’s list in Together’s place and it comes to 61, with Eisenkot and Feiglin at the same table.

6 seats to spare, so no single seat still in play decides it.

The Rabin option

601 short of 61
Yashar!21Together12The Democrats8Joint List11Raʿam8
Lieberman votes against60 for · 60 against
Lieberman abstains60 for · 53 against · 7 abstain

The Arab lists are willing and the change bloc, for now, is not, which leaves the route Rabin took after 1992: keep the Arab parties out of the coalition and let them vote for the government from outside. Lieberman won’t be part of anything that leans on Arab votes, so this is the center-left without Yisrael Beiteinu, plus both Arab lists. A new government only needs more votes for than against, though, which hands Lieberman the decision from outside as well, and the two votes above are what that looks like on the count as it stands.

5,017 more votes for Shas would take a seat from Raʿam and put this road at 59.

Back to the ballot box

If no road clears its own red lines, the mandate goes around the room for a few months, the Knesset is dissolved and the country votes again, with Netanyahu as caretaker prime minister the whole time. Israel voted five times between April 2019 and November 2022, so of everything on this page, this is the least wild.

Seats on the edge

How many votes would move a seat, one list at a time, with every other list held where it is.

Party Seats Next seatvotes it needs · from Last seatheld by · would go to
Raʿam 8 +44,603Yashar! 3,131Joint List
Joint List 11 +4,696Raʿam 37,305Shas
Shas 6 +5,017Raʿam 47,692Yisrael Beiteinu
Yashar! 21 +43,036Raʿam 11,320Shas
Religious Zionism–Zehut 6 +12,892Likud 30,197Shas
Likud 27 +42,639Raʿam 13,150Shas
UTJ 7 +29,326Raʿam 13,327Shas
Yisrael Beiteinu 7 +13,455Raʿam 37,318Shas
Together 12 +17,221Raʿam 24,829Yisrael Beiteinu
The Democrats 8 +25,100Yashar! 18,266Shas
Otzma Yehudit 7 +26,408Raʿam 20,065Shas

The Reservists: 2.72% on the final count. 30,973 more votes would have cleared 3.25% and brought in 4 seats, taken from Likud, Yashar! and Raʿam.

The ballot

    120 seats
    ← Arab · leftreligious right →
    61
    0 / 120 in your coalition
    Polling now · the 8-poll picture

    What the surveys say

    Poll of polls · 11 Oct–16 Oct 2026
    Yashar! 22
    Likud 20
    Together 12
    The Democrats 9
    UTJ 8
    Shas 8
    Joint List 8
    Otzma Yehudit 8
    Yisrael Beiteinu 8
    Religious Zionism–Zehut 6
    Raʿam 5
    The Reservists 4
    Amcha Yisrael 2
    CoalitionChangeArab

    61 needed to govern. The coalition sits at 50 and the non-Arab opposition at 57, so on these numbers neither bloc can form a government without the Arab parties.

    Poll of polls · 11 Oct–16 Oct 2026 · middle reading per party, so a house lean cannot drag it
    Yashar! 22
    Likud 20
    Together 13
    The Democrats 9
    UTJ 8
    Joint List 8
    Otzma Yehudit 8
    Yisrael Beiteinu 8
    Shas 7
    Religious Zionism–Zehut 6
    Raʿam 5
    The Reservists 4
    Amcha Yisrael 2
    CoalitionChangeArab

    61 needed to govern. The coalition sits at 49 and the non-Arab opposition at 58, so on these numbers neither bloc can form a government without the Arab parties.

    Party Maariv Lazar Research N12 Midgam Channel 14 Filber Times of Israel Tatika Research & Media Channel 13 Midgam Project et al. Kan 11 Kantar Channel 16 Maagar Mochot Walla Lazar Research Avg
    Yashar! 2123202620222122 21.9
    Likud 1820292018201820 20.4
    Together 131371112121313 11.8
    The Democrats 9910898910 9
    Joint List 88889888 8.1
    Yisrael Beiteinu 89599879 8
    Otzma Yehudit 88778998 8
    UTJ 87888888 7.9
    Shas 781087777 7.6
    Religious Zionism–Zehut 66766566 6
    Raʿam 65556555 5.3
    The Reservists 44444454 4.1
    Amcha Yisrael 4···444· 2
    Coalition4749614947494849
    Opposition5958465858585958
    Arab1413131315131313

    At the 3.25% line Blue & White (7/8) · Haredi Public (6/8) · Amcha Yisrael (3/8)

    Since the previous wave Likud 22→20

    Seeded from each outlet’s published seat projection. Tap to load a poll into the sandbox and build coalitions on it. Polls are snapshots, not predictions.

    The campaign so far

    The race, poll by poll

    Each line is the polling average with every pollster’s steady lean taken out, counted into seats under the real rules: the 3.25% threshold and the five surplus-vote agreements.

    The coalition bloc against 61Seats the average wins each day. Coalition: Likud, Shas, UTJ, Otzma Yehudit, RZP–Zehut.

    CoalitionChangeArab

    02040 JulAugSeptOct Lists filedLast pollsElection day 61 Coalition 52Change 54Arab 14

    Every list against the thresholdShare of the vote. Line: the adjusted average. Dots: single polls. Dashed: 3.25%.

    The three largest
    Yashar!16.9% · 22 seats
    01020 JulSept
    Likud16.8% · 22 seats
    01020 JulSept
    Together9.0% · 11 seats
    01020 JulSept
    The rest, on a closer scale
    The Democrats7.3% · 9 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Joint List6.5% · 8 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Otzma Yehudit6.5% · 8 seats
    0510 JulSept
    UTJ6.4% · 8 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Yisrael Beiteinu6.4% · 8 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Shas6.3% · 8 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Religious Zionism–Zehut5.0% · 6 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Raʿam4.4% · 6 seats
    0510 JulSept
    The Reservists3.3% · 4 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Amcha Yisrael3.2% · 0 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Blue & White1.1% · 0 seats
    0510 JulSept
    Haredi Public0.7% · 0 seats
    0510 JulSept

    How each pollster leansSeats a pollster gives each list above (+) or below (−) the all-pollster average, over the campaign so far. The reference point is an assumption: the average pollster is taken to be unbiased.

    Pollster · outletsYashar!LikudTogetherThe DemocratsJoint ListOtzma YehuditUTJYisrael BeiteinuShasReligious Zionism–ZehutRaʿamThe ReservistsAmcha Yisrael
    Kantar · Kan 11, Israel Hayom26 polls+0.3−1.2+0.6−0.50.0+0.50.0+0.1−0.60.0+0.1+0.7−0.1
    Lazar · Maariv, Walla24 polls+0.4−2.5+2.0+0.30.0+0.2−0.3+0.7−0.9−0.30.0+0.4−0.1
    Filber · Channel 1423 polls−0.7+7.6−4.7−0.4−0.3−0.6−0.1−1.6+1.7+0.8+0.1−1.0−1.3
    Midgam · N1218 polls+0.8−1.5+1.5+0.5−0.2−0.10.0+0.2−0.6−0.2−0.2+0.2−0.4
    Midgam Project · Channel 1318 polls−0.4−2.5+0.2+0.8+0.50.0+0.2+0.6−0.7+0.4+0.1+0.2+0.4
    Tatika · Times of Israel, Zman Israel18 polls+0.9−1.8+1.1−1.40.0−1.0+0.3+1.2+0.6−0.3+0.1+0.2−0.1
    Direct Polls · i24NEWS14 polls−0.7+4.5−3.4+0.4+0.4−0.1+0.3−0.5−0.2+0.2+0.3−0.9+0.9
    Maagar Mochot · Channel 1610 polls−0.6−2.6+2.8+0.3−0.4+1.2−0.4−0.6+0.7−0.6−0.5+0.2+0.7