{"id":553142,"date":"2026-07-22T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/553142\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:00:10","slug":"israel-election-poll-the-democrats-hold-steady-as-arab-parties-gain-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/553142\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Election Poll: The Democrats Hold Steady as Arab Parties Gain Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">A Channel 13 poll published on Tuesday evening, some 14 weeks before Israel&#8217;s October 27 election, forecasts that the bloc of Jewish opposition parties has weakened by one seat, after winning 61 seats in last week&#8217;s poll. The coalition parties also lose a seat, dropping to 49, while the Arab parties rise to 11 seats, two more than in the previous poll.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Likud drops by one seat to 21 seats, tied with <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/elections\/2026-07-21\/ty-article\/the-democrats-primary-netanyahus-oct-7-government-jumpstarted-israels-left\/0000019f-8399-ddc9-a99f-b3ddd0f20000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gadi Eisenkot&#8217;s Yashar party<\/a>, which holds steady. The Beyahad party, led by Naftali Bennett, weakens by one seat to 14 seats. <\/p>\n<p>Related Articles<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The Democrats, whose slate was chosen on Monday in primary elections, holds steady at 11 seats, while Yisrael Beiteinu remains unchanged at 10 seats. United Torah Judaism also holds steady with eight seats. The other ultra-Orthodox party, Shas, wins eight seats, gaining one compared to last week. <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/elections\/2026-07-21\/ty-article\/.premium\/ben-gvir-directs-israel-police-to-use-ministry-emblem-ahead-of-october-election\/0000019f-84d2-d702-a5bf-deda75ce0000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Otzma Yehudit <\/a>receives seven seats, the same as in the previous poll. Hadash-Ta&#8217;al and Ra&#8217;am each gain a seat, winning six and five seats respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/elections\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Elex HQ banner mobile\" width=\"2122\" height=\"708\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784678410_17_1200x400.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Religious Zionism weakens by one seat to five seats. The Bayit Zioni party, led by Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper, holds steady with four seats. Balad (1.9 percent), Blue and White (1 percent) and Makom LeKoolanu (0.5 percent) fail to pass the electoral threshold, as in recent polls.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The poll was conducted by The Madad (Shmuel Rosner and Noah Slepkov) in cooperation with the Midgam Project (Dr. Ariel Ayalon), Askararia (Dudi Dror) and Statnet (Youssef Makladeh). The poll surveyed 988 respondents, with a maximum sampling error of 3.5 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Channel 13 poll published on Tuesday evening, some 14 weeks before Israel&#8217;s October 27 election, forecasts that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,955,85,46,2649,21141,43,35648,62534,250524,68793,221587,251108],"class_list":["post-553142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-elections","tag-likud","tag-news","tag-otzma-yehudit","tag-shas","tag-united-arab-list","tag-united-torah-judaism","tag-yashar","tag-yisrael-beiteinu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}