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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
With 90% of votes counted, Blue and White slightly narrows Likud’s lead
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWith around 90 percent of votes tallied, the Blue and White party slightly narrows the Likud party’s lead.
Likud takes 29.3% of the vote, with Blue and White in second place with 26.3% of the vote.
Those parties are followed by the Joint List with 12.9% of the national vote.
The ultra-Orthodox Shas party takes 7.8% and United Torah Judaism has 6.2%.
Yisrael Beytenu receives around 5.9% of the vote and Labor-Gesher-Meretz takes 5.7%. Yamina follows with 5% of the vote.
The new tallies give the right-wing bloc 59 seats and the center-left-Arab bloc 54, with the remainder held by Yisrael Beytenu.
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