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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
As of 1 p.m. 17.7% of voters cast ballots in local elections, compared to 24% in 2018
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As of 1 p.m., 17.7 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots in Israel’s municipal elections, according to data from the Interior Ministry.
This year’s voter turnout, which totals some 1,256,916 votes cast, continues to lag behind the last local elections in 2018, when 24% voted by that time. Data is not immediately available on earlier elections (2018 saw higher turnout than any vote since 1989, but was also the first time since 1989 that election day was declared a sabbatical).
Some 19.2% have voted in Ashdod, 18% in Bnei Brak, 16.3% in Tel Aviv and 12% in Jerusalem. The city with the highest turnout so far is Kiryat Ono with 55.2% of eligible ballots cast.
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