Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, is ahead in Israel’s 26th Knesset election with 20.74% of the valid votes counted so far, according to partial national results from Israel’s Central Elections Committee.
Yashar!, running under the banner “Yashar! With Eisenkot for Prime Minister,” is second with 16.19%. As of 2:32 p.m. Wednesday, Likud had 1,006,726 votes to Yashar’s 786,109, a lead of about 220,000.
The count is not final. Under the Basic Law: The Knesset and the Knesset Elections Law, final results will be published in the Official Records by Nov. 4. Until then, the figures may change.
The Joint List is third with 9.19%, or 446,240 votes. Together, led by Naftali Bennett, is just behind at 8.99%.
The Democrats, led by Yair Golan, have 6.51%. Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu has 5.96%, and Ra’am–United Arab List has 5.84%.
United Torah Judaism is at 5.70%. Otzma Yehudit, led by Itamar Ben-Gvir, has 5.55%, while Shas has 5.31%. The joint list of Religious Zionism and Zehut, headed by Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin, has 4.77%.
Further down, the Reservists list led by Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha has 2.63%. Ofer Winter’s Amcha Yisrael has 1.61%. None of the other lists has reached 1%.
So far, 4,875,751 ballots have been counted from 11,168 polling stations. Of those, 4,854,102 were valid and 21,649 were disqualified. Israel has 7,331,981 eligible voters.
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