Right-wing bloc drops to 58 seats as new vote tally thins Likud lead

The right-wing bloc has dropped by one seat to 58 after an additional two percent of votes were counted.

With 92% of the vote tallied, those that remain include the so-called double envelopes, belonging to soldiers, diplomats, prisoners and those in hospitals.

The new seat count is as follows:

Likud: 35
Blue and White: 32
Joint List: 16
Yamina: 6
Labor-Gesher-Meretz: 7
Yisrael Beytenu: 7
Shas: 10
United Torah Judaism: 7

Right-wing, religious bloc (Likud, Yamina, Shas, UTJ): 58
Left-center bloc (Blue and White, Labor-Gesher-Meretz, Joint List): 55
Yisrael Beytenu: 7

 

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