{"id":943220,"date":"2026-10-27T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943220\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:20:11","slug":"israel-election-2026-live-updates-exit-polls-project-no-clear-winner-as-netanyahu-eisenkot-set-for-lengthy-battle-to-win-power-in-nations-first-election-since-october-7-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943220\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel election 2026 LIVE updates: Exit polls project no clear winner as Netanyahu, Eisenkot set for lengthy battle to win power in nation\u2019s first election since October 7 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli exit polls have begun flooding in, with many showing the opposition bloc of parties slightly ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s right-wing coalition and the Arab parties surging in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s Likud, however, outperformed many pre-election polls and to emerge as the biggest single party in several exit polls.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the exit poll from Israel\u2019s Channel 12, one of the country\u2019s main networks, shows the opposition bloc, led by Gadi Eisenkot, scoring 52 seats in the Knesset, Netanyahu\u2019s bloc 50 and the Arab parties 18.<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant decline for Netanyahu\u2019s bloc overall given 61 seats are required to form a parliamentary majority and his bloc won 64 seats at the most recent elections in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>With no clear winner, it will likely set off weeks of jockeying before a leader is declared and leave Israel in political limbo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Palestinian citizen of Israel casts her ballot in Umm al-Fahm.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/221635a73a1c0d5f7ba8e50706592514eca1ccfe.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>A Palestinian citizen of Israel casts her ballot in Umm al-Fahm.AP Photo\/Mahmoud Illean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israeli exit polls have begun flooding in, with many showing the opposition bloc of parties slightly ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-943220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}