The letter שס
In the last election it appeared in: Shas. It appeared in 10 elections.
Each bar is the letter's share of that election's votes, not of a running total — otherwise growth in the electorate would look like political decline.
What this page does not claim
A letter is an allocation by the Elections Committee, not a party's identity.
Letters are reassigned: the letter ז, for example, has been used by nine different lists since 2003. So the page shows the name each election actually recorded for the letter, and does not say it was the same list over time.
The Distance column is the only evidence here of continuity that does not rest on the letter itself — it is measured in the space of the map, from one appearance to the next.
Names recorded for this letter
- שס - התאחדות הספרדים העולמית שומרי תורה
- התאחדות הספרדים העולמית שומרי תורה
- התאחדות הספרדים שומרי תורה תנועתו של מרן הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ"ל
- התאחדות הספרדים שומרי התורה תנועתו של מרן הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ"ל
- התאחדות הספרדים שומרי תורה תנועתו של מרן הרב עובדי
Listed as they appear in the source, in Hebrew, without merging names that look alike — whether two lists are "the same party" is a decision the Elections Committee's records do not make, and so it is not made here.
Voting history
| Election | List name | Votes | Share | Seats | Distance | Source of the name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16th 2003 | שס - התאחדות הספרדים העולמית שומרי תורה | 258,879 | 8.22% | Not in source | First appearance | Official gazette |
| 17th 2006 | התאחדות הספרדים העולמית שומרי תורה | 299,054 | 9.53% | Not in source | 0.69 from the 16th | Official gazette |
| 18th 2009 | התאחדות הספרדים העולמית שומרי תורה | 286,300 | 8.49% | Not in source | 0.32 from the 17th | Official gazette |
| 19th 2013 | התאחדות הספרדים העולמית שומרי תורה | 331,868 | 8.75% | Not in source | 0.94 from the 18th | Official gazette |
| 20th 2015 | התאחדות הספרדים שומרי תורה תנועתו של מרן הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ"ל | 241,613 | 5.74% | Not in source | 1.93 from the 19th | Official gazette |
| 21st 2019 | התאחדות הספרדים שומרי התורה תנועתו של מרן הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ"ל | 258,275 | 5.99% | 8 | 0.61 from the 20th | Official results |
| 22nd 2019 | התאחדות הספרדים שומרי התורה תנועתו של מרן הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ"ל | 330,199 | 7.44% | 9 | 0.94 from the 21st | Official results |
| 23rd 2020 | התאחדות הספרדים שומרי תורה תנועתו של מרן הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ"ל | 352,853 | 7.69% | 9 | 1.86 from the 22nd | Official results |
| 24th 2021 | התאחדות הספרדים שומרי תורה תנועתו של מרן הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ"ל | 316,008 | 7.17% | 9 | 2.02 from the 23rd | Official results |
| 25th 2022 | Shas | 392,964 | 8.25% | 11 | 0.60 from the 24th | Official results |
Seat numbers come from the Elections Committee's results tables, which are held here from the 21st Knesset on. For earlier elections the source is the official gazette (Yalkut Hapirsumim), which records list names and not seats — hence "Not in source", and not zero.
Distance is the distance on the political map between the list's position in this election and its position the previous time the letter appeared — not necessarily the previous election, since letters skip elections. A small distance means the list drew support from the same kinds of localities; it does not mean they were the same voters. How the map was built