Interactive Map Tracks Election Turnout and Results by Neighborhood
Translated & summarized from Ynet by baba
An interactive map allows voters to track 2026 election turnout and results by neighborhood and polling station, with data from the Central Elections Committee. The map, created by data expert Nir Smilga, also categorizes areas to help parties strategize campaign efforts. It provides detailed metrics including bloc support, turnout, and socioeconomic data, allowing for comparisons with past elections.
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- An interactive map tracks 2026 election turnout and results by neighborhood and polling station.
- Bat Hen saw 97.9% turnout by 8 PM, while Alonim Yitzhak had only 21.6% turnout.
- The map categorizes areas into "Safe," "Encourage Voting," "Persuasion," and "Low Priority" for campaign strategy.
- Data expert Nir Smilga created the map with six comparative metrics and granular detail.
- Users can filter data by religion, socioeconomic status, and party support to find patterns.
An interactive map has been launched to allow voters to track election turnout data and results for the 2026 elections in real-time. The map, published by the Central Elections Committee, provides up-to-the-minute percentages of voter participation at the city, neighborhood, and polling station levels. It will later also display the final election results.
For example, the map shows that in Bat Hen, near Netanya, 97.9% of residents had voted by 8:00 PM, while in Alonim Yitzhak, near Givat Ada, only 21.6% had voted. The map, created by data expert Nir Smilga, allows users to delve into detailed data, including vote percentages for each party and bloc, overall turnout, socioeconomic clusters, leading parties, and comparisons with the results of the 24th and 25th Knesset elections.
The map categorizes areas into four types to help parties strategize: "Safe" (strong support and high turnout), "Encourage Voting" (strong support but lower turnout), "Persuasion" (potential for change), and "Low Priority" (weak support and little potential for change). Each category has a priority score based on support levels, turnout, and changes in voting patterns, indicating the potential return on campaign investment.
Smilga explained that the map's uniqueness lies in its combination of six comparative metrics and its granular detail, down to the individual polling station. It offers six views: bloc support, turnout rates, socioeconomic clusters, leading parties, shifts between the last two elections, and campaign focus. Users can filter data by settlement religion, socioeconomic cluster range, bloc support, turnout, and leading party to uncover patterns and connections between demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and voting behavior.
