Joint Likud-Jewish Home list polls at 40 seats

20 January 2015, 2:34 pm

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A new Knesset Channel poll says that should Likud and Jewish Home run on a joint ticket they can win a whopping 40 Knesset seats, leaving the Zionist Camp far behind with its polled 24 seats.

The poll finds that Likud alone would win 23 and Jewish Home 16, so a joint ticket would give the two parties together an extra seat.

The recent change to the electoral threshold may yet make the 2015 elections, until now quite dull and phlegmatic, into a historic affair. According to current polls, both Yisrael Beytenu and Meretz may vanish from the political map (both parties poll at 5-6 seats; the current threshold is four).

Arab parties, if they run on one ticket, are predicted to win 11 seats in the Knesset Channel’s poll, the same as Yesh Atid.