A Magar Mochot poll headed by Professor Yitzchak Katz asked participants which party they would vote for if elections were held in Israel today. The poll was commissioned by Radio 103FM and the results were released on Thursday morning 21 Kislev.
Likud would earn 31 seats, one more than it has today. The Machane Tzioni which leaders the opposition would drop 4 seats down to 20.
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu party would be dealt a fatal blow, cut in half to 5 seats.
Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid can smile, as his party gains 4 seats, to 15.
The Bayit Yehudi party which has 8 seats gains a seat to 9.
Yisrael Beitenu, which has 6 seats today would grow by 2 seats and the Arab party, Meretz and Yahadut Hatorah remain the same.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
1. What about shas?
2. Everyone remembers the last time Israelis were polled, and the pollsters were dead wrong
“the last time Israelis were polled, and the pollsters were dead wrong”
Not really; they just missed a last minute switch to Likud from supporters of other parties of the right.
Charlie, they had machine tzioni in a statistical tie, it didn’t happen
mbachur: charliehall is correct. You are right that they had machine tzioni in a statistical tie with Likud specifically, but not in the overall vote of the right.
Likud successfully campaigned about the point you made and many people voted for Likud from other parties in fear that Labor would win more seats than Likud. Those people didn’t understand that Likud would have built a coalition even if machine tzioni got more seats.
The reality is, that other parties on the right having more seats would force Netanyahu to be tougher/stronger because Netanyahu caves too much to outside pressure.