Small Parties Garner Few Votes After Over 1 Million Ballots Counted
Translated & summarized from Now 14 by baba
Following the counting of over one million votes in Israel's 26th Knesset elections, small parties have received minimal support. The Hendl-Zalicha party leads among these with 28,125 votes, followed by Ofer Winter's Am Ech Israel with 17,442. Several other parties, including the Haredi Public, Tzeva Chaim, and Noam L'Yisrael, collectively garnered just over 5,000 votes. Parties failing to cross the 3.25% electoral threshold will have their votes excluded from seat allocation.
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- Over one million votes counted in Israel's 26th Knesset elections show minimal support for small parties.
- Hendl-Zalicha party leads small parties with 28,125 votes, followed by Ofer Winter's Am Ech Israel with 17,442.
- Haredi Public, Tzeva Chaim, and Noam L'Yisrael parties combined received only 5,077 votes.
- Sharsher HaMelech party received 343 votes, ahead of Sharan Haskel's Israel First party with 127.
- Parties must cross the 3.25% threshold to gain Knesset seats; others' votes are excluded.
Partial election results in Israel show that several small parties have received a minimal number of votes after over one million ballots were counted for the 26th Knesset. The Hendl-Zalicha party has garnered 28,125 votes, while Ofer Winter's Am Ech Israel party received 17,442. These figures represent tens of thousands of votes for parties currently not projected to enter the Knesset, even as the vote count continues.
Other smaller lists received significantly fewer votes. The Haredi Public party obtained 2,003 votes, Tzeva Chaim received 1,569, and Noam L'Yisrael garnered 1,505. Combined, these three parties accumulated only 5,077 votes.
At the very bottom of the list, the "Sharsher HaMelech" party has received 343 votes, surpassing the "Israel First" party led by Sharan Haskel, which has collected just 127 votes. Both parties are far from crossing the electoral threshold.
Under Israeli election law, a party must secure at least 3.25% of the valid votes to be eligible for Knesset seats. Votes for parties that do not meet this threshold are not included in the seat allocation, effectively increasing the base number of votes required for parties that do pass the threshold.
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