The Central Elections Committee announced that the counting of "double envelope" votes has been completed. In the elections for the 26th Knesset, a total of 5,564,764 valid votes and 25,072 invalid votes were received.
The Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, continues to lead and has risen to 27 seats, followed by Yashar, led by Gadi Eisenkot, with 21 seats.
The Together party, led by Naftali Bennett, has 12 seats, while the Joint List has 11 seats. The Democrats, led by Yair Golan, and Ra’am, led by Mansour Abbas, each have eight seats.
Yisrael Beytenu, Otzma Yehudit, and United Torah Judaism each have seven seats, while the joint Religious Zionist and Zehut list has six seats. Shas joined them after falling to six seats as the vote counting approached its conclusion.
The drop to six seats represents a historic low for Shas, which records its lowest result since the elections for the 12th Knesset in 1988, in which it received six seats. Since then, the party has not dropped below the seven-seat threshold.
For comparison, in the 2022 elections, Shas won 11 seats, and now it is losing almost half of its parliamentary power.
Reservists and Economic Party, led by Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zlekha, came close to the electoral threshold but remained below it, with 2.67% of the vote, compared with the 3.25% required to enter the Knesset.
Amcha Yisrael, led by Ofer Winter, will also not make the cut, with 1.63% of the vote.
The current coalition, led by Netanyahu, has 53 seats, while the opposition bloc holds a combined 48 seats. The two Arab parties, the Joint List and Ra’am, hold a total of 19 seats.
This means neither bloc has a majority of 61 seats on its own, and the formation of the next government will depend on the possibility of political cooperation between blocs.
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