The 25th Knesset
The files: CSV · JSON — the vote for every list in every locality
Who entered the Knesset?
10 lists. The largest: Likud, with 32 seats. A majority needs 61. 417,400 votes (8.8%) went to lists below the threshold.
| List | Letter | Seats | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Likud | מחל | 32 | 23.4% |
| Yesh Atid | פה | 24 | 17.8% |
| Religious Zionist Party | ט | 14 | 10.8% |
| National Unity | כן | 12 | 9.1% |
| Shas | שס | 11 | 8.2% |
| United Torah Judaism | ג | 7 | 5.9% |
| Yisrael Beiteinu | ל | 6 | 4.5% |
| Ra'am | עם | 5 | 4.1% |
| חד"ש-תע"ל | ום | 5 | 3.8% |
| העבודה | אמת | 4 | 3.7% |
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 — 154,855 votes. 417,400 votes, 8.8%, went to lists that fell short of it. How it works
4,764,742 valid votes · turnout 70.6%. The files are encoded UTF-8 with a BOM, so that Excel shows Hebrew correctly.
Surplus-vote agreements: העבודה–מרצ · United Torah Judaism–Shas · Likud–Religious Zionist Party · Yesh Atid–National Unity. What a surplus-vote agreement is
The full results by list: votes, shares and seats
10 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.
| Letter | List | The line: the threshold, 3.25% | Share | Votes | Seats | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| מחל | Likud | 23.41% | 1,115,336 | 32 | Official results | |
| פה | Yesh Atid | 17.79% | 847,435 | 24 | Official results | |
| ט | Religious Zionist Party | 10.84% | 516,470 | 14 | Official results | |
| כן | National Unity | 9.08% | 432,482 | 12 | Official results | |
| שס | Shas | 8.25% | 392,964 | 11 | Official results | |
| ג | United Torah Judaism | 5.88% | 280,194 | 7 | Official results | |
| ל | Yisrael Beiteinu | 4.48% | 213,687 | 6 | Official results | |
| עם | Ra'am | 4.07% | 194,047 | 5 | Official results | |
| ום | חד"ש תע"ל בראשות איימן עודה ואחמד טיבי | 3.75% | 178,735 | 5 | Official results | |
| אמת | מפלגת העבודה בראשות מרב מיכאלי | 3.69% | 175,992 | 4 | Official results |
Show the lists below the threshold
| Letter | List | Share | Votes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מרצ | מרצ השמאל של ישראל בראשות זהבה גלאון | 3.16% | 150,793 | Official results |
| ד | בל"ד - אלתג`מוע אלווטני אלדמוקרטי בראשות סמי אבו ש | 2.91% | 138,617 | Official results |
| ב | הבית היהודי בראשות איילת שקד | 1.19% | 56,775 | Official results |
| אצ | חופש כלכלי בראשות אביר קארה | 0.33% | 15,801 | Official results |
| קץ | באומץ בשבילך | 0.31% | 14,694 | Official results |
| יז | הכלכלית החדשה בראשות פרופסור ירון זליכה | 0.29% | 13,920 | Official results |
| צ | צעירים בוערים בהנהגת הדר מוכתר | 0.18% | 8,800 | Official results |
| ף | הפיראטים- הכי טוב לדעתי אני רוצה להיות שם | 0.04% | 1,728 | Official results |
| ק | קול הסביבה והחי | 0.03% | 1,618 | Official results |
| ת | דעת טוב ורע וברית שבט אברהם-עלה ירוק ואוסרת אל איס | 0.03% | 1,524 | Official results |
| ני | נתיב - נחיה תמיד יחד בכבוד | 0.03% | 1,354 | Official results |
| קנ | כל קול קובע נועם קולמן ולירון עופרי לראשות הממשלה | 0.03% | 1,292 | Official results |
| נק | יש כיוון בראשות עמוס דב סילבר | 0.03% | 1,215 | Official results |
| י | ישראל חופשית דמוקרטית בראשות אלי אבידר | 0.02% | 1,157 | Official results |
| קך | סדר חדש- למען האזרחים הותיקים בישראל | 0.02% | 1,078 | Official results |
| נץ | העצמאים החדשים בראשות יורם מועלמי | 0.02% | 1,020 | Official results |
| ץ | מנהיגות חברתית | 0.02% | 988 | Official results |
| רז | רשימת שלושים\ארבעים בראשות סטלה ויינשטיין | 0.02% | 939 | Official results |
| ך | אני ואתה | 0.02% | 746 | Official results |
| ז | שחר כוח חברתי בראשות וג`די טאהר | 0.01% | 430 | Official results |
| קי | הלב היהודי בראשות אלי יוסף | 0.01% | 415 | Official results |
| יק | מפלגת הגוש התנ"כי | 0.01% | 411 | Official results |
| נז | כבוד האדם בראשות עו"ד ארקדי פוגץ` | 0.01% | 350 | Official results |
| נר | "אנחנו" - בראשות עו"ד מוש חוג`ה | 0.01% | 334 | Official results |
| זץ | צומת בראשות משה גרין דרכו של רפול | 0.01% | 292 | Official results |
| יץ | צו השעה | 0.01% | 262 | Official results |
| נף | מפלגת שמע בראשות נפתלי גולדמן | 0.01% | 255 | Official results |
| ינ | איחוד בני הברית -בראשות רב חובל בשארה שליאן | 0.00% | 234 | Official results |
| זך | קמ"ה - קידום מעמד הפרט | 0.00% | 205 | Official results |
| זנ | כח להשפיע בראשות בני אלבז | 0.00% | 153 | 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.
| List | Seats | Share of seats | Power | Pivotal in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likud | 32 | 26.7% | 30.6% | 315 combinations |
| Yesh Atid | 24 | 20.0% | 18.6% | 191 combinations |
| Religious Zionist Party | 14 | 11.7% | 12.0% | 123 combinations |
| National Unity | 12 | 10.0% | 9.6% | 99 combinations |
| Shas | 11 | 9.2% | 8.7% | 89 combinations |
| United Torah Judaism | 7 | 5.8% | 5.5% | 57 combinations |
| Yisrael Beiteinu | 6 | 5.0% | 4.8% | 49 combinations |
| חד"ש-תע"ל | 5 | 4.2% | 3.8% | 39 combinations |
| Ra'am | 5 | 4.2% | 3.8% | 39 combinations |
| העבודה | 4 | 3.3% | 2.6% | 27 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 70 of them in this election; these are the smallest.
| Likud + Yesh Atid + Religious Zionist Party | 70 |
| Likud + Yesh Atid + National Unity | 68 |
| Likud + Yesh Atid + Shas | 67 |
| Likud + Yesh Atid + United Torah Judaism | 63 |
| Likud + Yesh Atid + Yisrael Beiteinu | 62 |
| Likud + Yesh Atid + חד"ש-תע"ל | 61 |
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 Religious Zionist Party got +4.61 points more in the envelopes than its national share, and Ra'am −2.33.
| List | In envelopes | National | Difference | Envelope votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Zionist Party | 15.45% | 10.84% | +4.61 | 70,887 |
| National Unity | 10.65% | 9.08% | +1.57 | 48,847 |
| העבודה | 5.12% | 3.69% | +1.43 | 23,488 |
| Yisrael Beiteinu | 5.70% | 4.48% | +1.22 | 26,156 |
| הבית היהודי | 1.48% | 1.19% | +0.28 | 6,771 |
| Likud | 23.52% | 23.41% | +0.11 | 107,885 |
| מרצ | 3.13% | 3.16% | −0.04 | 14,349 |
| Yesh Atid | 16.93% | 17.79% | −0.85 | 77,681 |
| בל"ד | 1.59% | 2.91% | −1.32 | 7,311 |
| Shas | 6.84% | 8.25% | −1.41 | 31,378 |
| חד"ש-תע"ל | 1.71% | 3.75% | −2.04 | 7,830 |
| United Torah Judaism | 3.74% | 5.88% | −2.14 | 17,144 |
| Ra'am | 1.75% | 4.07% | −2.33 | 8,015 |
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-k25.html with a SHA-256 hash,
so any claim can be checked against the file we read.
Where every locality sits on the map → How a particular locality voted →