✶ Parties & polls · 26th Knesset, 27 October 2026
38 lists,
eleven in the Knesset.
Israelis vote for a party list, not a candidate, and the whole country is one constituency. In 2026 there were 38 lists on the ballot; eleven passed the 3.25% threshold and share the 120 seats. Lists below it took 306,478 votes (5.4%), which elected no one.
Result · certified 4 November 2026
Votes and
seats.
| Letters | List | Votes | Share | Seats | In 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| מחל | Likud | 1,167,591 | 20.51% | 27 | Likud 32 (New Hope, now merged in, ran with National Unity) |
| דרך | Yashar | 913,629 | 16.05% | 21 | New party (Gadi Eisenkot was elected for National Unity) |
| רק | Together | 532,018 | 9.35% | 12 | Yesh Atid 24; Bennett did not run |
| ודם | Joint List | 500,755 | 8.80% | 11 | Hadash–Ta'al 5; Balad missed the threshold |
| אמת | The Democrats | 366,278 | 6.44% | 8 | Labor 4; Meretz missed the threshold |
| עם | Ra'am | 337,720 | 5.93% | 8 | Ra'am 5 |
| ל | Yisrael Beiteinu | 337,450 | 5.93% | 7 | Yisrael Beiteinu 6 |
| ב | Otzma Yehudit | 326,793 | 5.74% | 7 | 6 of Religious Zionism's 14 |
| ג | United Torah Judaism | 312,632 | 5.49% | 7 | United Torah Judaism 7 |
| שס | Shas | 299,533 | 5.26% | 6 | Shas 11 |
| ט | Religious Zionism–Zehut | 290,549 | 5.11% | 6 | 7 of Religious Zionism's 14 |
| די | The Reservists and the Economic Party | 155,199 | 2.73% | — | New |
| ך | Amcha Yisrael | 95,764 | 1.68% | — | New |
Central Elections Committee, results by locality incl. double-envelope votes. Seat changes are not shown as plus/minus because most lists regrouped between 2022 and 2026.
Who they are
The lists
and their leaders.
-
מחלLikud
הליכוד
- Leader
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Seats
- 27 · 20.5%
- Family
- Likud and the secular right
- On the list
- Likud, New Hope
- After the vote
- Outgoing coalition (Netanyahu)
-
דרךYashar
ישר!
- Leader
- Gadi Eisenkot
- Seats
- 21 · 16.1%
- Family
- Centre
- After the vote
- Recommending Eisenkot
-
רקTogether
ביחד
- Leader
- Naftali Bennett
- Seats
- 12 · 9.3%
- Family
- Centre
- On the list
- Bennett 2026, Yesh Atid
- After the vote
- Recommending Eisenkot
-
ודםJoint List
הרשימה המשותפת القائمة المشتركة
- Leader
- Yousef Jabareen
- Seats
- 11 · 8.8%
- Family
- Arab-led
- On the list
- Hadash, Ta'al, Balad
- After the vote
- Arab-led lists
-
אמתThe Democrats
הדמוקרטים
- Leader
- Yair Golan
- Seats
- 8 · 6.4%
- Family
- Labour left
- After the vote
- Recommending Eisenkot
-
עםRa'am
רע״מ – הרשימה הערבית המאוחדת القائمة العربية الموحدة
- Leader
- Mansour Abbas
- Seats
- 8 · 5.9%
- Family
- Arab-led
- After the vote
- Arab-led lists
-
לYisrael Beiteinu
ישראל ביתנו
- Leader
- Avigdor Lieberman
- Seats
- 7 · 5.9%
- Family
- Likud and the secular right
- After the vote
- Recommending Eisenkot
-
בOtzma Yehudit
עוצמה יהודית
- Leader
- Itamar Ben-Gvir
- Seats
- 7 · 5.7%
- Family
- Religious Zionist right
- After the vote
- Outgoing coalition (Netanyahu)
-
גUnited Torah Judaism
יהדות התורה
- Leader
- Ya'akov Asher
- Seats
- 7 · 5.5%
- Family
- Haredi (ultra-Orthodox)
- On the list
- Agudat Yisrael, Degel HaTorah
- After the vote
- Outgoing coalition (Netanyahu)
-
שסShas
ש״ס
- Leader
- Aryeh Deri
- Seats
- 6 · 5.3%
- Family
- Haredi (ultra-Orthodox)
- After the vote
- Outgoing coalition (Netanyahu)
-
טReligious Zionism–Zehut
הציונות הדתית – זהות
- Leader
- Bezalel Smotrich
- Seats
- 6 · 5.1%
- Family
- Religious Zionist right
- On the list
- Religious Zionist Party, Zehut
- After the vote
- Outgoing coalition (Netanyahu)
- די
The Reservists and the Economic Party
המילואימניקים והכלכלית
- Leader
- Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha
- Seats
- 0 · 2.7%
- Family
- Other
- After the vote
- Other lists
- ך
Amcha Yisrael
עמך ישראל
- Leader
- Ofer Winter
- Seats
- 0 · 1.7%
- Family
- Other
- After the vote
- Other lists
Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu — Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gadi Eisenkot — יהב טרודלר (Yahav Trudler - Yahav Studio), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Naftali Bennett — Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Yousef Jabareen — אמיר דיב - Amir Deeb, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Yair Golan — Shlomi Amsalem, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Itamar Ben-Gvir — אלון נוריאל, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ya'akov Asher — Nati Shohat, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Aryeh Deri — רווח הפקות ©, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bezalel Smotrich — Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Others public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Party families · 2022 → 2026
Arab-led lists: 19 seats,
Haredi lists: 13.
- Arab-led +9
- Labour left +4
- Centre −3
- Likud and the secular right −4
- Religious Zionist right −1
- Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) −5
Arab-led lists
The Joint List (Hadash, Ta'al and Balad together again) and Ra'am won 19 seats between them, more than Arab-led lists have held in any Knesset; the previous high was the Joint List's 15 in March 2020. In June 2021 Ra'am became the first Arab party to join a governing coalition, in the Bennett–Lapid government, which lasted a year. After this election both said they would back Gadi Eisenkot against Benjamin Netanyahu, and one said it would vote with such a government without joining it.
Haredi lists
United Torah Judaism (Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah, Ashkenazi) and Shas (Sephardi and Mizrahi) won 13 seats, against 18 in 2022. Both entered Netanyahu's 37th government; in July 2025 United Torah Judaism left the coalition and Shas's ministers resigned, over the military service of yeshiva students. Both are counted with Netanyahu's bloc in this election. Haredi towns turn out in very high numbers: see places.
Polls · seats out of 120
What the
pollsters said.
Israeli polls are published as seats. 92 polls published from 26 August 2026 to the start of the blackout on Friday 23 October, as compiled on Wikipedia from each broadcaster's and newspaper's release. From the end of that Friday until 22:00 on election day the law forbade publishing new polls (s.16E(h)); this page hides them in that window too.
The last poll from each outlet, against the result
| Outlet · firm | Date | Likud | Yashar | Together | Joint List | Democrats | Ra'am | Yisrael Beiteinu | Otzma | UTJ | Shas | RZP–Zehut | Off by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Channel 13 · MP+TM+SN+A · n=1,875 | 23 October | 19 | 22 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 11 |
| HaHadashot 12 · Midgam R&C · n=1,018 | 23 October | 21 | 23 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 11 |
| Channel 14 · SF+ND · n=7,937 | 22 October | 30 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 9 |
| Israel Hayom · Kantar | 22 October | 21 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 11 |
| Maariv · LRI+P4A · n=1,048 | 22 October | 19 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 13 |
| Zman Yisrael · Yossi Tatika · n=500 | 22 October | 21 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 12 |
| Channel 16 · Maagar Mochot · n=2,026 | 20 October | 18 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 14 |
| i24 News · Direct Polls · n=521 | 20 October | 26 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| Walla · LRI+P4A · n=601 | 19 October | 19 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 13 |
| Kan 11 · Kantar · n=554 | 18 October | 21 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 12 |
| Mean of these | 21.5 | 21.9 | 13.3 | 8.6 | 9.0 | 5.5 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 6.6 | ||
| Result | 27 Oct | 27 | 21 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
Exit polls at 22:00
Broadcasters publish samples taken at polling stations the moment the last ones close. None may be published earlier.
| Outlet | Likud | Yashar | Together | Joint List | Democrats | Ra'am | Yisrael Beiteinu | Otzma | UTJ | Shas | RZP–Zehut | Off by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Channel 13 | 27 | 22 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Channel 14 | 29 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| HaHadashot 12 | 27 | 21 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
| i24 News | 27 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| Kan 11 | 27 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
Polls as compiled at Wikipedia — Opinion polling for the 2026 Israeli legislative election (secondary; CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 4 November 2026. "Off by" counts seats a poll put in the wrong place. Prediction-market prices, below, are traders' bets, not polls.
The whole ballot
Every list
on the slip tray.
Each list has its own letters, printed large on its ballot slips; established parties keep theirs from election to election (Likud's מחל, Shas's שס). The Central Elections Committee approved 38 lists; two withdrew before polling day.
| Letters | List | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| מחל | Likud · Benjamin Netanyahu | 1,167,591 | 20.51% |
| דרך | Yashar · Gadi Eisenkot | 913,629 | 16.05% |
| רק | Together · Naftali Bennett | 532,018 | 9.35% |
| ודם | Joint List · Yousef Jabareen | 500,755 | 8.80% |
| אמת | The Democrats · Yair Golan | 366,278 | 6.44% |
| עם | Ra'am – United Arab List · Mansour Abbas | 337,720 | 5.93% |
| ל | Yisrael Beiteinu · Avigdor Lieberman | 337,450 | 5.93% |
| ב | Otzma Yehudit · Itamar Ben-Gvir | 326,793 | 5.74% |
| ג | United Torah Judaism · Ya'akov Asher | 312,632 | 5.49% |
| שס | Shas · Aryeh Deri | 299,533 | 5.26% |
| ט | Religious Zionism–Zehut · Bezalel Smotrich | 290,549 | 5.11% |
| די | The Reservists and the Economic Party · Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha | 155,199 | 2.73% |
| ך | Amcha Yisrael · Ofer Winter | 95,764 | 1.68% |
| נר | Black Color – Guardian of the Torah World | 11,271 | 0.20% |
| זך | The Haredi Public · Moti Litner | 10,604 | 0.19% |
| ני | Noam · Avi Maoz | 9,928 | 0.17% |
| בי | Tzomet – Beit Yisrael | 5,713 | 0.10% |
| ד | The Partnership for Everyone | 4,077 | 0.07% |
| צדק | Chain for Love and Unity of the People | 2,086 | 0.04% |
| בד | Together We Will Succeed – Joint Arab-Jewish List · Avi Shaked | 1,438 | 0.03% |
| צף | The Pirates | 1,049 | 0.02% |
| י | Israel First · Sharon Haskel | 933 | 0.02% |
| קך | New Order for Constitution, Separation of Powers and Direct Elections | 918 | 0.02% |
| פה | Me and You – The Israeli People's Party | 871 | 0.02% |
| קץ | Justice Court | 778 | 0.01% |
| נקי | The Fix for the Electoral and Governmental System | 761 | 0.01% |
| בקר | Orot HaShachar · Nissim Louk | 747 | 0.01% |
| קה | Kol HaNashim | 712 | 0.01% |
| רץ | HaKahal · Shlomo Elboim | 580 | 0.01% |
| ק | Tekuma | 569 | 0.01% |
| נף | Shema · Naftali Goldman | 524 | 0.01% |
| ז | Betach – Social Security · Simeon Grafman | 501 | 0.01% |
| נץ | Personal Security | 482 | 0.01% |
| יק | Gahat – The Biblical Bloc | 399 | 0.01% |
| ה | Garden of Eden · Yeshua Israel Ben David | 322 | 0.01% |
| זץ | World Covenant for the Redemption of Israel | 252 | 0.00% |
| כן | Blue and White · Benny Gantz · withdrew 19 October 2026 | 0 | 0.00% |
| צבי | Achi Movement · withdrew 23 October 2026 | 0 | 0.00% |
List names: the CEC's release of the approved lists' letters, as reported by Ynet (September 2026). 14 lists have fuller records here.