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To: Eleutheria5
So people understand the way Israeli elections are conducted:

There are no districts. Voters vote only for a party. Every party gets seats in the Knesset (Parliament) based on the percentage of the vote. (The Knesset has 120 members; if a party gets 10% of the vote, they get 12 seats.)

Before the election, each party publishes a list of their candidates, in numerical order. If a party wins ten seats, the first ten names on their list are elected.

In this instance, if a candidate is 24th on the Likud slate, they will not be elected unless Likud wins at least 20% of the vote.

4 posted on 11/26/2012 2:35:11 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Kind of strange.

How do they make the lists?


8 posted on 11/26/2012 2:46:01 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

“On December 10, 2008 Feiglin was voted to the 20th place in Likud primaries.[20] On December 11, following a petition submitted against him by Ophir Ekonis, he was demoted to the 36th spot”

...

Watch them do it again


14 posted on 11/26/2012 3:04:05 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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