Israel's 26th Knesset election,
In 3 days. 38 lists are standing for 120 seats.
Who leads the polls?
Not current These polls were all published by 23 October 2026. Israeli law bars publishing new polls until the polls close on election day; these are not current, and nothing can be learned from them about how the public votes, or what it thinks, today.
Polls: an estimate, not a result The median of 8 pollsters, each one's latest poll, fieldwork 18 October 2026 to 22 October 2026.
As of 22 October 2026, Yashar (ballot letter דרך) leads the polls with 22 seats. A majority needs 61, and no list gets there alone.
Build a coalition
Tick lists and see whether they reach 61. The sum is of the poll medians (an estimate, not a result). The site puts no list in any bloc.
Every list in the polls
Polls: an estimate, not a result Median seats, and in brackets the lowest and highest across the 8 pollsters.
A list that at least half the polls put below the threshold is shown below it. Each pollster counts once, with its latest poll in the 21 days before the newest.
Cite: bechirot.fyi, median of 8 pollsters' latest Knesset polls, fieldwork 18 October 2026 to 22 October 2026, https://bechirot.fyi/en/
How votes become seats
- Israel votes once, nationally, for a party list. There are no constituencies: the whole country elects all 120 members of the Knesset.
- A list needs 3.25% of the valid votes to win any seat. In 2022 that was 154,855 votes, and 417,400 votes went to lists that fell short.
- Seats are shared out by the Bader-Ofer method (a form of D'Hondt). Two lists can sign a surplus-vote agreement, which pools their leftover votes for the last seats.
- A government needs the confidence of 61 members, so in practice a coalition of lists.
The last election
In the 25th Knesset election (2022), the largest list was Likud, with 32 seats.