Pollster Predicts High Turnout Will Challenge Small Parties

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Pollster Shlomo Filber predicts that high voter turnout across all sectors, including Arab, left-wing, right-wing, and Haredi communities, will challenge small parties' ability to pass the electoral threshold. The increased participation is expected to significantly shift the distribution of Knesset seats compared to earlier polls. Filber stated that the public is not indifferent and that the high turnout could impact how votes and seats are allocated among parties entering the Knesset.

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Pollster Shlomo Filber predicts high voter turnout will challenge small parties.
Increased participation is noted across all sectors: Arab, left, right, and Haredi.
High turnout is expected to significantly alter Knesset seat distribution.
The public is not indifferent, according to Filber's assessment.
Turnout may affect vote and seat allocation among successful parties.

Pollster Shlomo Filber anticipates that unusually high voter turnout in the upcoming elections will make it difficult for smaller parties to pass the electoral threshold. Hours before the release of exit polls for the 26th Knesset, Filber, who is responsible for the Channel 14 poll, stated that the high participation rates observed throughout the day are expected to significantly alter the distribution of Knesset seats compared to polls from the previous weekend. Filber noted that the exceptional turnout figures are not confined to a single political camp, with increased participation evident across various population groups. "If there was a dilemma about whether there would be participation or not, then, to put it mildly, the public in Israel is not indifferent, and this includes all sectors," he emphasized. He added, "The Arab sector, left-wing concentrations, right-wing concentrations, and the Haredim too, one can say that there is an increase in voting percentages among all of them." Filber estimated that the high turnout could also impact the chances of smaller parties clearing the 3.25% electoral threshold. He suggested that changes in participation levels might affect the allocation of votes and seats among the parties that successfully enter the Knesset.