Israeli election

[dizz]

Final Israel election results indicate: Kadima will be in Knesset, Habayit Hayehudi to get 12 seats
With 60% of the double-sealed ballots counted, it also appears that the United Arab List-Ta'al will shrink from five to four seats; final results expected later Thursday.


Taken from Haaretz just now - an unhelpful devepment re. HH & the UAL/Ta'al seats.

I recall the Palestinian parties lost a seat last time as well at this stage as a lot of these later votes are military/diplomatic.

[Sibboleth]

Arab parties, not Palestinian parties. Important distinction.

[Sibboleth]

Of course the UAL has an amusing amount in common with JH-NU, if we ignore the obvious.

[Sibboleth]

Results for the ten largest cities:

Jerusalem - UTJ 22%, L-B 21%, Shas 16%, HH 12%, YA 7%, Labor 7%, Meretz 4%, OL 3%
Tel Aviv - YA 21%, L-B 18%, Labor 17%, Meretz 14%, H 7%, Shas 6%, HH 4%
Haifa - L-B 26%, YA 18%, Labor 15%, H 7%, HH 6%, Meretz 5%, Hadash 5%, Shas 3%, UTJ 5%
Rishon LeZion - L-B 31%, YA 23%, Labor 14%, H 7%, HH 7%, Shas 5%, Kadima 3%
Petah Tikvah - L-B 29%, YA 18%, HH 13%, Labor 11%, Shas 7%, H 5%, UTJ 4%
Ashdod - L-B 36%, Shas 17%, UTJ 10%, YA 10%, HH 7%, Labor 6%, H 4%
Beersheba - L-B 38%, Shas 13%, HH 12%, YA 11%, Labor 8%, H 5%
Holon - L-B 31%, YA 20%, Labor 13%, Shas 11%, H 6%, HH 6%, Kadima 3%, Meretz 3%
Netanya - L-B 34%, YA 16%, Shas 11%, HH 11%, Labor 9% H 4%, UTJ 3%
Bnei Brak - UTJ 60%, Shas 25%, L-B 4%, HH 4%

Probably a load of errors there, but, you know.

[Sibboleth]

Tel Aviv, Holon and Bnei Brak are all part of Tel Aviv District. Rishon LeZion and Petah Tikvah are both part of the wider Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

[Sibboleth]

Might be some errors; if so the map will be modified accordingly, etc.

[robertwaller]

May I ask where you got those results by region, Sibboleth? I know Paul Maggs of the Election Game is looking for the regional percentages.

[Khunanup]

The good results for Yesh Atid, Labour and Hatnuah in the Golan are interesting, certainly in contrast to the West Bank (though noticeably, and unsurprisingly, Jewish Home did very well in both). Are the settlers in the Golan less militant/is it seen as a more legitimate plece to go to live by the Israeli mainstream as it's not part of the proposed Palestinian State and can instead be seen as a more 'legitimate' spoil of war?

[Sibboleth]

Jan 27, 2013 22:49:07 GMT Khunanup said:

The good results for Yesh Atid, Labour and Hatnuah in the Golan are interesting, certainly in contrast to the West Bank (though noticeably, and unsurprisingly, Jewish Home did very well in both). Are the settlers in the Golan less militant/is it seen as a more legitimate plece to go to live by the Israeli mainstream as it's not part of the proposed Palestinian State and can instead be seen as a more 'legitimate' spoil of war?

Kibbutzim and (to a lesser extent) moshavim, basically. Unlike the West Bank you don't really have much in the way of large settlements (and no really huge ones).

[Sibboleth]

Results by municipality in the Tel Aviv District.

[markgoodair]

Benjamin Netanyahu has been given two more weeks to form a new government, following January's inconclusive elections.

[markgoodair]

Coalition formed consisting of Likud Yisrael Beitenu, Yesh Atid and Jewish Home. Shas and United Torah Judaism kicked out of Government.

[Georg Ebner]

Let us recycle this thread for today's LocalElections!

[markgoodair]

The coalition has broken up over the issue of the ultra orthodox serving in the military. Early elections have been called for April 9th.

[David]

Benny Gantz has finally registered his new centrist party for the upcoming elections. It’s to be called “Hosen L’Yisrael” which means “Resilience for Israel”. Its filing shows the typical esoteric programme “the ongoing foundation and strengthening of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the light of the Zionist dream as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, and through the establishment and redefinition of national priorities in the following areas: education, national infrastructure development, agriculture, law, internal security, social welfare, peace and security.”

[markgoodair]

Education minister Naftali Bennett and Justice minister Ayelet Shaked have left Jewish Home to form a new party called New Right.

[David]

So five new polls came out yesterday for the elections and all show a fractured Knesset, even more so than usual. Being Israeli polls they're vastly different in many respects. The KAN one is the only one to show Yisrael Beitenu leaving the Knesset for instance, and two of them show Jewish Home leaving the Knesset too. Though there are also some similarities as four of the five show Likud losing seats, one of them shows them losing 5 seats, and the fifth shows them staying on 30. The other main similarity is the continuing poor performance of the Zionist Union, all polls show them losing more than half their current 24 seats. As an illustration one typical poll, the one from the public broadcaster KAN, shows the following:

Likud on 27 down from 30,

The Zionist Union, would be on 9 down from 24,

The Arab Joint List would be on 12 down from 13,

Yesh Atid would be on 16 up from 11,

Kulanu would be on 7 down from 10,

Jewish Home would be fail to meet the threshold and lose all 8 seats,

New Right Party (Bennet and Shaked) win 14 seats,

Yisrael Beitenu would also be eliminated from the Knesset down from 6,

Shas would hover uncomfortably close to the line and win 4 down from 7,

United Torah Judaism would win 7 up one,

Meretz would get 6 up one,

Resilience Party (Gantz) would get 13 seats and

Gesher, this is Orly Levy-Abekasis’s new right leaning outfit, it means “Bridge” and it was also the name of her father’s party, would get 5 seats.

If my crappy quick maths are correct, the above shows six right wing parties getting 66 seats in the next Knesset, 61 are needed for a majority, and it’ll be eight parties if Jewish Home and Yisrael Beitenu get in. The next Netanyahu national camp coalition, if that’s what’s elected, will be unstable indeed, and that’s not even taking into account any indictment for Netanyahu.

[Devil Wincarnate]

So many choices, none of them good.  See also: the Netherlands.

[Merseymike]

Largely a selection of unpleasant right wing parties for what is now a very questionable state in terms of its policies and actions. Can't really understand why so many varieties of the same thing are required.

[carlton43]

Dec 31, 2018 14:09:34 GMT @jamieredhead said:

What I find remarkable is how quickly and completely the once powerful left parties have collapsed.

I am aware of Likud and Labour and the fact that there are a couple of parties for the headbangers with big hats and long coats that clog up airport gateways, and I assume an Arab party? Would one of you in the know as to the present state care to give us an annotated list of what each group really stands for and against?