Posted on 11/14/2018 4:39:56 PM PST by goldstategop
Moshe Lion’s already-declared victory in the race to become Jerusalem’s mayor became official Wednesday night as the final votes were counted, with him coasting past rival Ofer Berkovitch. When the count was finalized, Lion was confirmed as the winner by 3,765 votes, with 50.85% of the votes cast (112,744) to Berkovitch’s 49.15% (108,979).
Lion had been 6,500 ballots ahead of Berkovitch before the counting of the final 9,000 provisional ballots began around 8 p.m.
With some 3,000 of those 9,000 votes tallied and updated by the municipality, Lion quickly sailed beyond that mark to defeat Berkovitch with 51 percent of the overall vote to Berkovitch’s 48%. The final outcome must still be confirmed by the Interior Ministry.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Lion is the first elected Jerusalem mayor of Mizrahi descent.
If he is a Republican, he better prepare to get screwed.
They stole elections in MT, AZ and they’re preparing to steal elections in GA and FL.
Its a matter of finding the votes. Rat scum.
More info, please...who is conservative, who is not?
This is like posting a Milwaukee election and assuming everyone in the nation knows the candidates.
Sorry Moshe Lion is a religious Jew on the Right.
His opponent Ofer Berkovitch is a centrist secular Jew.
Jerusalem is a conservative city due to its a large bloc of haredi Jewish and religious Zionist Jewish voters.
The secularist leftist Meretz party holds only one seat on the 31 member Jerusalem City Council.
Religious parties have a majority of 18.
IIRC Tel Aviv is very very liberal.
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