Analysis Reveals Israel's Most Left-Wing and Right-Wing Neighborhoods
Translated & summarized from Ynet by baba
An analysis of the 2022 Israeli elections revealed voting patterns by neighborhood, identifying Ma'oz Aviv Aleph in Tel Aviv as the most left-wing and Mitzpe Nevo in Ma'ale Adumim as the most right-wing. The Likud party was the leading party in over half of the 1,044 Jewish city neighborhoods studied. Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods showed the highest voter turnout, while some eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods had the lowest. The study was conducted by Madlan, a data analysis company.
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- Ma'oz Aviv Aleph in Tel Aviv was the most left-wing neighborhood, while Mitzpe Nevo in Ma'ale Adumim was the most right-wing.
- The Likud party led in 552 of the 1,044 Jewish city neighborhoods analyzed in the 2022 elections.
- Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Ashdod, Givat Ze'ev, and Petah Tikva recorded the highest voter turnout rates.
- Meretz received its highest support nationwide in Ma'oz Aviv Aleph, despite not passing the electoral threshold.
- The lowest voter turnout was recorded in eastern Jerusalem's Sawahir neighborhood.
- Yesh Atid was the leading party in 355 neighborhoods, with strong support in northern Tel Aviv.
A recent analysis of voting patterns from the 2022 Knesset elections has identified the most politically left-wing and right-wing neighborhoods across Israel's Jewish cities. The study, conducted by the company Madlan, examined 1,044 neighborhoods, excluding smaller settlements, moshavim, and kibbutzim. The Likud party emerged as the leading party in 552 neighborhoods, while Yesh Atid was the strongest in 355. The analysis also highlighted specific neighborhoods with exceptionally high or low voter turnout.
The Likud, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, secured an absolute majority in over 20 neighborhoods. The highest percentage of votes for the Likud was recorded in the Shazar neighborhood of Or Akiva, with 58.5%. Other neighborhoods in Acre, Tiberias, Kiryat Shmona, Kiryat Ata, Or Yehuda, Lod, and particularly in Dimona, also showed strong Likud support, with over 50% of votes in some cases.
Tel Aviv's Ma'oz Aviv Aleph neighborhood was identified as the most left-wing, with the Meretz party receiving 21.16% of the vote, the highest for Meretz nationwide, despite the party failing to pass the electoral threshold in 2022. The Labor party also received significant support there. Yesh Atid was the leading party in several northern Tel Aviv neighborhoods, including Ramat Aviv Gimel and Tel Baruch.
Conversely, the neighborhood with the highest concentration of right-wing voters was Mitzpe Nevo in Ma'ale Adumim, where the Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit parties, running jointly under Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, received 49.8% of the vote. Other neighborhoods with strong right-wing support were identified in Be'er Sheva, Sderot, Or Akiva, and Safed. In many settlements, these right-wing parties garnered absolute majorities.
Ultra-Orthodox parties also showed significant concentration, with United Torah Judaism leading in 64 neighborhoods and exceeding 80% of the vote in three of them, primarily in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem. Shas was strongest in the Net'im neighborhood of Netivot. The National Unity party, led by Benny Gantz, led in only one neighborhood, Alonza in Daliyat al-Karmel.
Neighborhoods with the highest voter turnout were predominantly ultra-Orthodox areas in Ashdod, Givat Ze'ev, and Petah Tikva, with rates exceeding 85%. Conversely, the lowest turnout was observed in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, and in parts of Eilat, Netanya, and Haifa. The lowest turnout overall was in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sawahir, where many residents are not citizens.
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