Israel Parliamentary election 2026 (Knesset) — Results

Election day: October 27, 2026 · voting 05:00–20:00 UTC (07:00–22:00 IST)

Figures from official electoral authorities · last checked 5 Nov 2026, 07:57 UTC
  • Likud: 20.51%, 27 seats
  • Yashar! with Eisenkot: 16.05%, 21 seats
  • B'Yachad (Bennett): 9.35%, 12 seats
  • The Joint List: 8.80%, 11 seats
  • The Democrats: 6.44%, 8 seats
  • Ra'am (United Arab List): 5.93%, 8 seats
  • Yisrael Beiteinu: 5.93%, 7 seats
  • Otzma Yehudit: 5.74%, 7 seats

Parties and lead candidates

  • Likud · Benjamin Netanyahu — Prime Minister since 2022 and from 2009 to 2021; led the outgoing coalition; 32 seats in 2022
  • B'Yachad · Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid — Bennett's new party merged with Yesh Atid, the opposition leader's list, which won 24 seats
  • Shas · Aryeh Deri — Sephardi Haredi party, in the outgoing coalition; 11 seats in 2022
  • Religious Zionism–Zehut · Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin — The finance minister's party, in the outgoing coalition; ran with Otzma Yehudit in 2022
  • Otzma Yehudit · Itamar Ben Gvir — The national security minister's party; ran on the joint Religious Zionism list in 2022
  • United Torah Judaism · Yaakov Asher — Ashkenazi Haredi alliance of Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah; 7 seats in 2022
  • Yisrael Beiteinu · Avigdor Lieberman — Secular nationalist party, in opposition since 2022, when it won 6 seats
  • Ra'am (United Arab List) · Mansour Abbas — Islamist party; in the 2021–22 coalition, in opposition since 2022; 5 seats
  • The Joint List · Yousef Jabareen — Hadash, Ta'al and Balad reunited; Hadash–Ta'al won 5 seats in 2022, Balad none
  • The Democrats · Yair Golan — Labor and Meretz merged in 2024; Labor won 4 seats in 2022, Meretz none
  • Yashar! with Eisenkot · Gadi Eisenkot — New party of the former army chief of staff, filed on 7 September 2026; no past result

The lists are in the order of what each one, or its components, won at the 2022 election; Yashar! with Eisenkot is new and has no previous result. The Central Elections Committee approved all 38 lists filed by the 9 September deadline, and the ballot letters drawn for them, on 27 September 2026. Two were approved conditionally: on 23 September the committee had voted to bar Ra'am and the Joint List outright, and to bar two Joint List candidates, MK Ofer Cassif and Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh. On 2 October the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the two lists' appeals, declined by seven votes to two to approve Cassif's disqualification, and dismissed the case against Abu Shehadeh after he submitted an irrevocable withdrawal to the committee that morning — leaving him the only person removed from the ballot by the four cases. Benny Gantz's Blue and White, which stood in 2022 as National Unity and won 12 seats, is not on the list above: he announced on 19 October that he would not run and was withdrawing the party from the race. The other 26 admitted lists are smaller or single-issue, among them Israel First (Sharon Haskel), The Reservists and the Economic Party (Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha), Noam L'Yisrael (Avi Maoz), Amcha Israel (Ofer Winter) and Kol HaNashim. One of them, Achi, led by Rabbi Haim Yosef David Abergel, announced on 23 October that it was leaving the race, after a meeting attended by a representative of the prime minister and by mayors who asked it to stand down. A list needs 3.25% of the valid votes to win any seats.

Government and coalitions

Before the vote

Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) has been Prime Minister since 29 December 2022, heading a right-religious coalition with Shas, United Torah Judaism, Religious Zionism, Otzma Yehudit and Noam that won 64 of the 120 seats in 2022. The Knesset voted to dissolve itself on 17 July 2026, and the government continues in a caretaker capacity until a new Knesset is sworn in.

After the vote

The Central Elections Committee published its allocation of the 120 seats on 30 October 2026, the figures beside each list above, and submitted it to the President on 4 November. On the blocs as reported, the parties of the outgoing coalition hold 53 seats and those against it 48, with the Joint List and Ra'am on 19 between them; 61 are a majority, so no bloc can govern on its own. No coalition has been agreed.

About this election

How the vote works

The 120 members of the Knesset are elected by closed-list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency. Seats are allocated by the d'Hondt (Bader–Ofer) method among lists that clear 3.25% of the valid votes, and two lists may sign a surplus-vote agreement to pool their leftover votes. Sixty-one seats are a majority; after the vote the President tasks the party leader judged most able to command one with forming a government.

Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.

In numbers

  • 4.46 points separated Likud from Yashar! with Eisenkot — 253,959 votes.
  • Likud converted 20.51% of the vote into 27 of 120 seats (22.50%), 1.99 points more than its vote share.
  • The top two shared 36.56% of the vote between them, and 11 lists cleared 5%.
  • Support for Likud ranged from 27.81% in Southern District to 15.45% in Northern District — a spread of 12.36 points across 6 regions, and it led in 3 of 6.

Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.

Understanding this election

All Israel elections & results →