Netanyahu’s bloc leads after a late comeback, but Israel’s election has no clear winner. With 54 seats projected against the opposition’s 49 and Arab parties holding 17, the fight to form a government is just beginning.

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Vote counting halted temporarily following the processing of 93% of ordinary ballot boxes (representing 85.6% of total votes cast), leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition short of a majority at 53 seats. The Central Elections Committee confirmed that Gadi Eisenkot’s Zionist opposition bloc holds 48 seats, while Arab-led slates reached a historic high of 19 seats. Around 600,000 double-envelope ballots from military personnel and diplomats remain uncounted, which election officials expect to tally over the next two days. The parliamentary stalemate mirrors previous multi-election deadlocks across the country. In April 2019, Israeli national elections ended in a virtual tie between Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party, triggering a two-year period of snap elections and repeated coalition failures.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/with-over-85-of-votes-counted-pro-netanyahu-bloc-gets-53-seats-eisenkot-led-bloc-at-48-and-arab-parties-have-19/
https://www.thepetek.com/results
https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/2026-10-28/live-updates-913081

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