CEC continues to count ballots, Netanyahu – Gantz still at stalemate

According to Channel 12, 95% of the votes from Tuesday’s elections have already been counted, Blue and White stands at 33 seats and Likud at 32 seats, with Blue and White leading by a narrow margin. It is important to note that these are still not the final results.

Overnight, the committee was counting the near quarter of a million soldiers’ votes cast by Israeli soldiers.

The Central Election Committee (CEC) has been updating its website since the close of the polls at 10 p.m. on Tuesday. The last update was at 8:06 a.m. on Thursday: 4,212,310 votes had been counted – or 65.88% of the ballots cast.

The current official results according to the CEC (with mandates/seats according to Channel 12):

Blue and White: 25.81% (33)
Likud: 25.09% (32)
The Joint List: 10.71% (12)
Shas: 7.48% (9)
Yisrael Beytenu: 7.07% (8)
UTJ: 6.12% (8)
Yemina: 5.76% (7)
Labor-Gesher: 4.80% (6)
Democratic Union: 4.32% (5)
Otzma Yehudit: 1.86% (did not pass the electoral threshold of 3.25%)

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Based on these results, without Yisrael Beytenu’s eight mandates, the Center-Left bloc would have counted on 56 seats and the Center-Right bloc 56.