New Poll Shows Shifting Support Within Right-Wing Parties
Translated & summarized from i24NEWS by baba
A new i24NEWS poll shows stable bloc numbers but shifting support within the right-wing, with Otzma Yehudit losing a seat to Ofer Winter's new party. The Likud party remains steady, while Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashr!" party continues its decline.
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- Coalition and opposition blocs remain stable with no majority.
- Likud party holds steady at 27 seats in the new poll.
- Otzma Yehudit loses a seat, while Ofer Winter's party gains one.
- Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashr!" party continues a slight downward trend.
A new poll conducted by Direct Polls for i24NEWS reveals a stable bloc distribution in Israeli politics, with the current coalition securing 60 seats and the opposition 48, while Arab parties hold 12. No bloc currently has a majority.
The Likud party remains unchanged at 27 seats. The "Yashr!" party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, continues a slight decline, dropping from 22 to 21 seats. The "Be'adcha" party also loses one seat, falling from 10 to 9, while "HaDemokratim" gains one, moving from 9 to 10 seats.
The most notable shift is within the right-wing religious bloc. Otzma Yehudit, led by Itamar Ben-Gvir, loses one seat, decreasing from 8 to 7. Conversely, Ofer Winter's "Am Israel" party gains a seat, rising from 4 to 5. This represents a transfer of one seat between parties within the bloc, not an overall change in its size.
Other parties saw minor changes: Yisrael Beiteinu, led by Avigdor Lieberman, gains one seat to reach 8. Religious Zionism, merged with Moshe Feiglin's "Zeut," along with United Torah Judaism, Shas, the Joint List, and Ra'am, remained unchanged.
The poll, conducted on September 17, 2026, surveyed 519 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2%. If elections were held today, the seat distribution would be: Likud 27, Yashr! 21, HaDemokratim 10, Be'adcha 9, Yisrael Beiteinu 8, United Torah Judaism 8, Otzma Yehudit 7, Joint List 7, Shas 7, Religious Zionism and Zeut 6, Ra'am 5, and Am Israel 5. Parties like HaMiluimnikim and HaKalkalit received 2.2% of the vote, falling short of the electoral threshold.
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