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Likud Leads Preliminary Knesset Election Results; Counting Continues

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Preliminary results from Israel's 26th Knesset elections show the Likud party leading with 26.61% of the vote after counting from 302 polling stations. Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar! and Naftali Bennett's Bayahad are in second and third place, respectively. Vote counting continues, with parties like Benny Gantz's National Unity yet to register any votes. The Central Election Committee is overseeing the process.

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Likud leads preliminary Knesset election results with 26.61% of votes counted from 302 stations.
Yashar! and Bayahad parties follow Likud in the preliminary vote count.
Over 94,000 votes have been counted from 7.3 million eligible voters.
Vote counting is ongoing, with some parties yet to register any votes.
Benjamin Netanyahu leads the Likud party, Gadi Eisenkot leads Yashar!, and Naftali Bennett leads Bayahad.

Likud Leads Preliminary Knesset Election Results; Counting Continues — Editorial illustration generated by baba News, not a photograph of the event.

The Central Election Committee has released preliminary results for the 26th Knesset elections, with the Likud party currently in the lead. As of 2:11 AM on October 28, votes from 302 polling stations, representing 94,098 voters out of 7,331,981 eligible, have been counted. Of the ballots processed, 93,680 were valid and 418 invalid.

Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party secured 26.61% of the valid votes, totaling 24,929 votes. Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar! party followed with 17.09% (16,009 votes), and Naftali Bennett's Bayahad party came in third with 8.93% (8,368 votes).

Other parties receiving significant vote counts include Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beytenu with 7.62% (7,143 votes), Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit with 7.26% (6,799 votes), Yair Golan's Democrats with 6.25% (5,856 votes), and Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism in alliance with Moshe Feiglin's Zehut, garnering 6.14% (5,750 votes).

Further down the results are Shas with 5.31% (4,979 votes), Yahadut HaTorah with 4.52% (4,232 votes), and the Joint List with 3.55% (3,326 votes). Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelicha's Reservists and Economic party received 3.21% (3,005 votes), Ofer Winter's Amcha Israel received 1.97% (1,843 votes), and Ra'am received 0.66% (616 votes).

Parties like Benny Gantz's National Unity have not yet registered any votes. All other lists received less than 0.2% of the votes. The vote counting process is ongoing.