{"id":659297,"date":"2026-10-28T05:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659297\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T05:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:42:07","slug":"less-than-half-of-all-votes-have-been-counted-in-israels-election-no-clear-majority-so-far-live-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659297\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Than Half Of All Votes Have Been Counted In Israel&#8217;s Election; No Clear Majority So Far | LIVE BLOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Israel\u2019s voter turnout reached 77.7% by the time polls closed at 10 p.m., the highest at that hour since 1999, according to the Central Elections Committee. More than 5.69 million people cast ballots, and results will be published gradually as votes are counted and verified. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already come out and announced that the right-wing bloc has a clear majority; however, so far, just over 40% of ballots have been counted and published by the CEC. <a data-is=\"component-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel-election-s-2026\/artc-israelis-head-to-the-polls-casting-their-votes-in-the-country-s-first-election-since-2022-live-blog\" title=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel-election-s-2026\/artc-israelis-head-to-the-polls-casting-their-votes-in-the-country-s-first-election-since-2022-live-blog\" target=\"\" class=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE FROM ELECTION DAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest i24NEWS\u2019s exit poll results, as of 7:00 am:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Likud &#8211; 27, Yashar! &#8211; 20, B&#8217;Yachad &#8211; 15, The Democrats &#8211; 9, Joint List &#8211; 9, Shas &#8211; 8, Otzma Yehudit &#8211; 7, United Torah Judaism &#8211; 7, Ra&#8217;am &#8211; 7, Religious Zionism &#8211; 6, Yisrael Beiteinu &#8211; 5 <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">\u2018It looks like a come-from-behind stalemate, or even a win,\u2019 President Trump credits his endorsement for Netanyahu\u2019s election lead<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Netanyahu\u2019s Likud Party leads elections with 27 votes, Eisenkot\u2019s Yashar Party in second with 21 votes; only 42% of ballots counted so far<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s voter turnout reached 77.7% by the time polls closed at 10 p.m., the highest at that hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-659297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659297","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=659297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}