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The election ·

The 22nd Knesset

The files: CSV · JSON — the vote for every list in every locality

Who entered the Knesset?

9 lists. The largest: כחול לבן -, with 33 seats. A majority needs 61. 126,704 votes (2.9%) went to lists below the threshold.

ListLetterSeatsShare
כחול לבן - פה 33 25.9%
הליכוד מחל 32 25.1%
הרשימה המשותפת ודעם 13 10.6%
ש"ס שס 9 7.4%
ישראל ביתנו ל 8 7.0%
יהדות התורה ג 7 6.1%
ימינה טב 7 5.9%
העבודה אמת 6 4.8%
המחנה הדמוקרטי מרצ 5 4.3%

Who was on the lists: every candidate, and who got in by list order →

How did the threshold work?

A list needed 3.25% of the valid votes — 144,197 votes. 126,704 votes, 2.9%, went to lists that fell short of it. How it works

4,436,806 valid votes · turnout 69.9%. The files are encoded UTF-8 with a BOM, so that Excel shows Hebrew correctly.

Surplus-vote agreements: העבודה–המחנה הדמוקרטי · יהדות התורה–ש"ס · הליכוד–ימינה · כחול לבן -–ישראל ביתנו. What a surplus-vote agreement is

The full results by list: votes, shares and seats

9 lists passed the threshold (3.25%), set in Knesset Elections Law (Amendment No. 62), 5774-2014. The votes include the external envelopes, as the official result does.

The threshold · 3.25% Below the line: 20 lists that won votes and no seats
Show the lists below the threshold
LetterList ShareVotes Source
כף עוצמה יהודית בראשות איתמר בן גביר 1.88% 83,609 Official results
זץ צומת - התיישבות וחקלאות 0.33% 14,805 Official results
כי האחדות העממית - אלוחדה אלשעביה בראשות פרופ' אסעד גאנם 0.13% 5,946 Official results
יז אדום לבן - לגליזציה לקנביס, שוויון לאתיופים, ערבים ומקופחים 0.10% 4,358 Official results
צ צדק בראשות אבי ילאו 0.07% 3,053 Official results
רק רון קובי - הימין החילוני נלחמים בכפיה החרדית 0.05% 2,395 Official results
נך כבוד ושוויון 0.03% 1,545 Official results
ק זכויותינו בקולנו - לחיים בכבוד 0.03% 1,473 Official results
ףז הפיראטים - כי כולנו באותה סירה והכל אותו שייט 0.03% 1,236 Official results
ז עוצמה כלכלית קולם של העסקים בישראל 0.03% 1,193 Official results
נ מתקדמת 0.02% 1,033 Official results
קץ קמ"ה - קידום מעמד הפרט 0.02% 994 Official results
קך סדר חדש - לשינוי שיטת הבחירות 0.02% 928 Official results
זכ מפלגת הדמוקראטורה 0.02% 736 Official results
צן צפון 0.02% 725 Official results
ינ התנועה הנוצרית הליבראלית 0.01% 610 Official results
ץ דעם - כלכלה ירוקה מדינה אחת 0.01% 592 Official results
יף כבוד האדם 0.01% 542 Official results
יק מפלגת הגוש התנ"כי 0.01% 497 Official results
י מנהיגות חברתית 0.01% 434 Official results
Who needed whom: the arithmetic of 61

The seat allocation decides how many seats each list holds. It does not decide who can form a government — that takes 61. The power column counts in how many of the possible combinations the list is the difference between a majority and none: take it out, and the coalition falls below 61. It measures power, not size, and the two are not always the same.

ListSeatsShare of seats PowerPivotal in
כחול לבן - 33 27.5% 26.2% 134 combinations
הליכוד 32 26.7% 23.8% 122 combinations
הרשימה המשותפת 13 10.8% 12.5% 64 combinations
ש"ס 9 7.5% 9.4% 48 combinations
ישראל ביתנו 8 6.7% 7.4% 38 combinations
יהדות התורה 7 5.8% 6.2% 32 combinations
ימינה 7 5.8% 6.2% 32 combinations
העבודה 6 5.0% 4.7% 24 combinations
המחנה הדמוקרטי 5 4.2% 3.5% 18 combinations

The smallest coalitions that reach 61

A combination in which every partner is needed: take one out, and there is no majority. There are 42 of them in this election; these are the smallest.

What this arithmetic does not know

These are combinations that are possible arithmetically, not coalitions that are possible politically.

The arithmetic does not know who is willing to sit with whom, so it also counts combinations nobody would form — and you can see that in the table above. The gap between what the numbers allow and what politics allows is exactly what this arithmetic does not measure, and it is not presented here as if it did.

How the external envelopes voted

Votes cast outside the voter's locality — soldiers, prisoners, hospital staff, missions abroad — are counted last, and they do not vote like the country. On election night they are both the largest block of votes not yet counted and the one whose make-up differs most from the running count. Here כחול לבן - got +4.26 points more in the envelopes than its national share, and הרשימה המשותפת −6.32.

ListIn envelopesNational DifferenceEnvelope votes
כחול לבן - 30.21% 25.95% +4.26 84,654
ימינה 8.85% 5.87% +2.98 24,810
הליכוד 27.82% 25.10% +2.72 77,953
המחנה הדמוקרטי 4.95% 4.34% +0.61 13,861
עוצמה יהודית 2.35% 1.88% +0.46 6,583
העבודה 4.71% 4.80% −0.08 13,211
ש"ס 6.28% 7.44% −1.16 17,598
יהדות התורה 4.16% 6.06% −1.90 11,649
ישראל ביתנו 5.00% 6.99% −1.99 14,019
הרשימה המשותפת 4.27% 10.60% −6.32 11,974

Lists that won less than one per cent nationally are not shown: a few dozen envelopes give them a dramatic difference that means nothing.

Where the names come from

The list names are from ועדת הבחירות המרכזית לכנסת. We keep the document as cec-nationalresults-k22.html with a SHA-256 hash, so any claim can be checked against the file we read.

Source: the Central Elections Committee for the Knesset's publications. The national total includes the external envelopes. The documents themselves