Results
The Central Elections Committee starts publishing its count when polls close at Oct 27, 10:00 PM Israel time (4:00 PM EDT). This page will show the count as it comes in, refreshed every minute, and the Coalition Builder will add the results as a choice.
The ballot letters
Voters pick a paper slip printed with a list's letters. The committee's count reports votes by those letters. These are the letters of the 15 lists this site tracks, out of 38 on the ballot.
| Letters | List | Leader |
|---|---|---|
| מחל | Likud | Benjamin Netanyahu |
| ב | Otzma Yehudit | Itamar Ben-Gvir |
| שס | Shas | Aryeh Deri |
| ג | UTJ | Yaakov Asher (Goldknopf no. 2) |
| ט | Religious Zionism–Zehut | Bezalel Smotrich, with Moshe Feiglin |
| ך | People of Israel | Ofer Winter |
| ני | Noam | Avi Maoz |
| דרך | Yashar! | Gadi Eisenkot |
| רק | B'Yachad | Naftali Bennett (Yair Lapid no. 2) |
| אמת | The Democrats | Yair Golan |
| ל | Yisrael Beiteinu | Avigdor Lieberman |
| כן | Blue and White | Benny Gantz |
| די | Reservists–Economic | Yoaz Hendel |
| ודם | Joint List | Yousef Jabareen (Ahmad Tibi no. 2) |
| עם | Ra'am | Mansour Abbas (Yoav Segalovitz no. 2) |
Source: Approved by the Central Elections Committee Sep 27, 2026: Ynet and Emess (Sep 27), full list of 38 in Ice (Sep 2026). The committee's own list page was down when checked (Oct 5); confirm against the CSV header on election night.
How votes become seats
- Lists with fewer than 3.25% of valid votes get no seats. Their votes are not transferred.
- The 120 seats are shared among the remaining lists in proportion to their votes, by the Bader-Ofer method.
- Two lists that signed a surplus-vote agreement compete for leftover seats as if they were one list, then split what they win. This can move one seat. Agreements used here: Yashar! and The Democrats; B'Yachad and Yisrael Beiteinu; Joint List and Ra'am; Likud and Religious Zionism–Zehut (reported); Shas and UTJ (reported).
- A government needs the confidence of 61 members.
Knesset Elections Law, s. 81: 3.25% of valid votes. Agreements: Yashar! and The Democrats, Times of Israel, Sep 10, 2026; B'Yachad and Yisrael Beiteinu, Times of Israel, Sep 10, 2026; Joint List and Ra'am, Walla, Sep 12, 2026 (signed Sep 11); Ynet, Sep 11; Jerusalem Post, Sep 13; Likud and Religious Zionism–Zehut, Israel Hayom, Sep 8; reported unsigned, Channel 14, Sep 15, 2026; Shas and UTJ, Jerusalem Post, Sep 10, 2026 (“expected”). Seat estimates use every agreement listed here. Likud–Religious Zionism and Shas–UTJ were announced or expected, but no report of a signing was found (checked Oct 5). Confirm against the committee's list of filed agreements before election night.