Netanyahu Bloc Leads After Most Votes Counted
Over 85% of votes counted: Netanyahu bloc 53 seats, Eisenkot bloc 48, Arab parties 19.
With 85% of the votes counted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc leads the opposition coalition. Israel’s Election Commission announced Wednesday afternoon that his right-wing alliance is projected to win 53 seats, five more than the centrist bloc led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot.
Under current trends, Prime Minister Netanyahu will need eight more seats to reach the 61-seat threshold for a majority in the 120-seat Knesset.
#BREAKING: 100% of the regular votes counted.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc 53
The opposition bloc 48,
Arab parties hold a combined 19 seats.— Israel National News – Arutz Sheva (@ArutzSheva_En) October 28, 2026
The Jerusalem Post reported:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc is currently expected to enter the Knesset with 53 seats, the Central Elections Committee (CEC) announced on Wednesday morning after almost five million votes were counted.
Netanyahu’s Likud is projected to enter with 26 seats, while United Torah Judaism, Shas, and Otzma Yehudit are expected to enter with seven seats, and the Religious Zionist Party is expected to enter with six seats, respectively.
The opposition bloc, comprising Yashar, B’Yachad, Yisrael Beytenu, and the Democrats, is expected to enter the Knesset with 48 seats, according to data from the CEC.
תודה רבה לכם 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/RqarS9MLoR
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) October 28, 2026
The final result, expected to be released Wednesday evening, could change the outcome as mail ballots casted IDF soldiers and others are still to be counted.
“The Central Elections Committee has completed counting ballots from all regular polling stations, with the results excluding double-envelope ballots, which are scheduled to be counted Wednesday evening,”Israel’s Ynetnews noted. “The counting of double-envelope ballots, including votes cast by soldiers and other eligible voters outside their assigned polling stations, could still change the distribution of seats.”
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I had a conversation with my Jewish friend about other friends parroting thinly veiled antisemite talking points. Those included conspiracy theories that Netanyahu stood down on Oct 7th and committed financial crimes.
While I rejected these theories outright, my friend suggested that there’s some truth to that, but if he resided in Israel he’s still vote Bibi, citing “wartime” President
Refresh my memory. Wasn’t he not in charge on Oct 7th?
Yes. Did something i said suggest otherwise?
“Stood Down” meaning he lessoned military surveillance allowing the attack and then didn’t deploy them fast enough to bring about maximum carnage so he had an excuse to attack Gaza.
Is that what you think occurred?
BiBi !!!!
With 100% of the regular votes counted, the problem begins of reaching 61 votes out of a potential pool of only 101, since most members of Knesset are not willing to join a coalition that depends on support from the Arab parties.
Note that the 48 votes that are in the non-Netanyahu “bloc” are not united. Most of them are just as right-wing as Netanyahu himself, or even more so, and are willing to join a Likud government so long as it’s not led by him. Only the Democrats are an actual left-wing party, and right now they’re on 8 seats.
but wait…..
what are these boxes coming in from philadelphia and detroit?????
The boxes are coming in from military bases, embassies, hospitals, and prisons.
All votes are counted by hand, with representatives of all parties watching carefully for any hanky-panky.
Too bad we don’t do it the same way here
VIva Bibi !
Have the boxes from Cook county and the Peoples Democratic Republic of California been reported yet? We should have those in only a few months. Maybe.
Wait a second. Polling and the media have been telling us for a few months that Bibi was toast and it was going to be a crushing landslide defeat. You mean those polls were wrong? Maybe they were using fake polling outfits to drive a narrative like is happening here.