Reading the map
Facts checked October 5, 2026. Results are the Central Elections Committee's final files for each election.
Three views of the same votes. In the single-list view, a deeper shade of the list's own color means a higher share of valid votes. Leading-list colors show local plurality, which can be below 50%; ties are marked separately. If the combined Other lists could conceal a leader, the map leaves the leader unestablished. Pie slices show the named lists and Other, with circle area proportional to valid votes. Overlapping markers are filtered in place, with a displayed coverage count; zoom or search for any town to see its full recorded breakdown. Geography is not voter movement, and land area is not vote count.
A town is not a group. The map shows how places voted, not how any community voted. Mixed cities such as Haifa, Lod and Akko are one number each: the committee publishes results by polling station, but no current public list of station addresses was found, so a city cannot be split into neighborhoods. The pages on communities use the same files with the same caution.
Up to one vote in ten is not on the map. Votes cast away from the voter's home polling station, at special stations for soldiers, hospital patients and residents of care facilities among others, are counted in one national pseudo-locality. They were 5.5% of valid votes in April 2019 and 9.6% in November 2022 (computed from the committee's locality files). These ballots go in two envelopes, which attach the voter's name so it can be checked against the roll to prevent voting twice (Times of Israel, Oct 30, 2022). The bars beside the map keep these votes separate from locality votes: a chosen list's shares in single-list view, or the full named-list mix and Other in the two multi-list views.
Each list is shown as it ran that year. Ballot letters and alliances change between elections. In 2022, for example, Religious Zionism ran on one list with Otzma Yehudit, and the letters פה belonged to Blue and White in 2019–2020 and to Yesh Atid in 2021–2022. The list menu names every list that won at least 1% of the national vote; smaller lists are counted in the totals but cannot be picked individually. Their combined remainder appears as Other in vote-mix markers and the town breakdown. Lists that run on under the same party in 2026 (Likud, Shas, United Torah Judaism, Yisrael Beiteinu, Ra'am, Hadash–Ta'al, Otzma Yehudit, Religious Zionism) take that party's color; other colors identify original historical list names, not current political blocs. Trace changing lists and alliances.
The West Bank and East Jerusalem
Israeli citizens aged 18 and over on election day may vote (Times of Israel, Oct 30, 2022). Israeli citizens who live in West Bank settlements vote in their own localities, so settlements appear in the committee's files and are drawn like any other locality. The committee's files have no Palestinian localities in the West Bank, so the rest of the West Bank is blank, and Gaza is shown for reference only. The dashed line is the outline of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' boundary file.
Jerusalem is one locality, East and West. More than 350,000 Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem hold permanent residency rather than citizenship; they can vote in municipal elections but not in national ones (Times of Israel, Jan 13, 2020).
Sources and method
- Results: the Central Elections Committee's results by locality for each election (the files are linked under the map). For every list in all five elections, the locality figures add up exactly to the committee's national results; the build script checks this each time it runs.
- Boundaries: the Ministry of Transport's 2026 locality layer on data.gov.il, and, for localities it lacks (mostly West Bank settlements, which it leaves out), the Central Bureau of Statistics' 2008 census layer. About 35 localities with no boundary in either, mostly Bedouin tribes in the Negev, along with army camps and a few newer localities, are drawn as dots at the bureau's point for them. They held 0.48% of valid votes in 2022. The locality listed as Hebron (215 valid votes in 2022) has neither a boundary nor a point; it can be found with the town search but is not drawn on the map.
- Names: the Central Bureau of Statistics' English names, with this site's spellings for the best-known places (Bnei Brak, Beersheba, Petah Tikva, Modi'in Illit).
- West Bank outline and Gaza: OCHA, State of Palestine subnational administrative boundaries, published on the Humanitarian Data Exchange under CC BY-IGO.
- Precedent: the open-source project IdanTravitsky/israel-votes maps the same committee results from 1996 on and handles envelope votes the same way. No code or data was taken from it.
The 2026 results will be added once the committee posts its final file, expected about a week after the October 27 vote, as in 2022.