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The election ·

The 23rd Knesset

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

Who entered the Knesset?

8 lists. The largest: הליכוד, with 36 seats. A majority needs 61. 36,901 votes (0.8%) went to lists below the threshold.

ListLetterSeatsShare
הליכוד מחל 36 29.5%
כחול לבן פה 33 26.6%
הרשימה המשותפת ודעם 15 12.7%
ש"ס שס 9 7.7%
יהדות התורה ג 7 6.0%
העבודה אמת 7 5.8%
ישראל ביתנו ל 7 5.7%
ימינה הימין החדש טב 6 5.2%

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 — 149,178 votes. 36,901 votes, 0.8%, went to lists that fell short of it. How it works

4,590,062 valid votes · turnout 71.5%. The files are encoded UTF-8 with a BOM, so that Excel shows Hebrew correctly.

Surplus-vote agreements: יהדות התורה–ש"ס · הליכוד–ימינה הימין החדש · כחול לבן–העבודה. What a surplus-vote agreement is

The full results by list: votes, shares and seats

8 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: 21 lists that won votes and no seats
Show the lists below the threshold
LetterList ShareVotes Source
נץ עוצמה יהודית בראשות איתמר בן גביר 0.42% 19,402 Official results
ז עוצמה ליברלית – כלכלית בראשות גלעד אלפר 0.08% 3,781 Official results
נ קול הנשים 0.06% 2,773 Official results
ףז הפיראטים לדמוקרטיה לחצו כאן 0.03% 1,473 Official results
קץ משפט צדק, בראשות ד"ר לריסה עמיר 0.03% 1,375 Official results
ק ישראליסט זכויותינו בקולנו לחיות טוב יותר 0.02% 980 Official results
כן אני ואתה – מפלגת העם הישראלית 0.02% 812 Official results
ינ איחוד הברית והשותפות 0.01% 677 Official results
קך סדר חדש לשינוי שיטת הבחירות בראשות עו"ד אביטל אופק 0.01% 677 Official results
נז הכח להשפיע למען הציבור לחיות בכבוד 0.01% 667 Official results
נק מתקדמת (בשיתוף עם תנועת הדרור העברי) 0.01% 622 Official results
ץ דעם כלכלה ירוקה מדינה אחת 0.01% 612 Official results
כ הלב היהודי בראשות אלי יוסף 0.01% 516 Official results
קי שמע בראשות נפתלי גולדמן 0.01% 442 Official results
יק מפלגת הגוש התנ"כי 0.01% 389 Official results
ני קמ"ה – קידום מעמד הפרט 0.01% 350 Official results
יז אדום לבן – ח'ירבת דוראן בראשות עמי פינשטיין מחכים למשיח? משיח כבר כאן... 0.01% 342 Official results
י החזון בראשות ציון אלון 0.01% 308 Official results
יר מנהיגות חברתית 0.01% 271 Official results
יף כבוד האדם, בראשות עו"ד ארקדי פוגץ' 0.00% 222 Official results
זך פעולה לישראל 0.00% 210 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
הליכוד 36 30.0% 26.4% 65 combinations
כחול לבן 33 27.5% 25.6% 63 combinations
הרשימה המשותפת 15 12.5% 16.7% 41 combinations
ש"ס 9 7.5% 6.9% 17 combinations
העבודה 7 5.8% 6.1% 15 combinations
יהדות התורה 7 5.8% 6.1% 15 combinations
ישראל ביתנו 7 5.8% 6.1% 15 combinations
ימינה הימין החדש 6 5.0% 6.1% 15 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 30 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 +3.27 points more in the envelopes than its national share, and הרשימה המשותפת −7.15.

ListIn envelopesNational DifferenceEnvelope votes
כחול לבן 29.85% 26.59% +3.27 97,828
הליכוד 32.67% 29.46% +3.20 107,049
ימינה הימין החדש 8.35% 5.24% +3.10 27,357
העבודה 7.37% 5.83% +1.54 24,137
ש"ס 7.10% 7.69% −0.59 23,264
ישראל ביתנו 3.91% 5.74% −1.83 12,815
יהדות התורה 4.09% 5.98% −1.89 13,387
הרשימה המשותפת 5.52% 12.67% −7.15 18,077

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-k23.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