Posted on 03/17/2015 5:21:54 PM PDT by goldstategop
The returns on voting from ballot boxes indicate that the Likud has significantly extended its lead over Zionist Union.
According to Israel Radio, officials have counted the votes of 25 percent of booths across the country. The results indicate that the Likud wins 32 Knesset seats while Zionist Union garners 25 seats.
Yesh Atid is the third-largest party with 11 seats, Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu faction wins 10 seats, the Arab List nosedives to nine seats, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas movement wins eight seats, Naftali Bennett's Bayit Yehudi dips further to seven seats, while Yisrael Beytenu, which has only mustered five seats, climbs to seven.
United Torah Judaism wins six seats while Meretz rounds out the list with five seats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2009
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