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Romp For Likud With 25% Of The Popular Vote In
Jerusalem Post ^ | 03/18/2015 | JPost Staff

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2015; israel; israelelection; likud; netanyahu; netanyahuvictory; popularvote; romp; zionistunion
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To: goldstategop
The scene from the White House.


41 posted on 03/17/2015 6:02:18 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Sasparilla

Fuming and horns growing , expect for them to shed any pretext of who they are and what they are soon.

Demons screeching tonight.

The greek word Tatarus is the prison for demons and evil spirits.


42 posted on 03/17/2015 6:02:50 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: Usagi_yo
Take note of the Media reports on how the under reported on Netanyahu and pumping up the polls for the other side.

So true. I love it how Netanyahu pledged "No Palestinian State Ever On My Watch!" right before the election.

The Libs and Obama cut their own throats.

43 posted on 03/17/2015 6:03:37 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: goldstategop
... 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.

Surprise!...
Surprise!!...
Surprise!!!...

44 posted on 03/17/2015 6:04:08 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President Obola (LIPO) goes golfing)
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To: goldstategop
the Arab List nosedives to nine seats

Ha...Good job Obambi...the Arabs in Israel know which side their bread is buttered.....

...thanks again for busing in all those Bibbi voters....../snicker

45 posted on 03/17/2015 6:04:37 PM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: Usagi_yo

This was like those fake polls that had everything tied right before last years earthquake.


46 posted on 03/17/2015 6:05:58 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: spokeshave

Peace will not come to the Middle East until Israel liberates the Palestinian-occupied territories of Judea and Sumeria.


47 posted on 03/17/2015 6:08:17 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: Dave346

The only other party that got significant votes but will miss the threshold is a leftist party with just 1.01%. All other parties that will miss are under 0.1%.


48 posted on 03/17/2015 6:09:38 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: SkyPilot

All our conservative politicians, when in close races, need to emulate Net: Never give up! Never! This will be the first happy sleep I’ve had in a while.

If he’d lost, I probably would have plunged into deep depression.


49 posted on 03/17/2015 6:10:05 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Dave346

Just before dawn with 57% of the vote in, the Likud holds its lead:

With nearly 60 percent of precincts reporting before dawn on Wednesday, the Likud maintains its lead over Zionist Union.

According to official vote-counters, after tallying 57 percent of the ballots, Likud draws 24.4 percent of the vote; Zionist Union comes in second at 19 percent.

The parties that follow are Yesh Atid (8.8 percent); Joint Arab List (8.4 percent); Kulanu (7.6 percent); Bayit Yehudi (6.3 percent); Shas (6.1 percent); Yisrael Beytenu (5.6 percent); United Torah Judaism (5.2 percent); and Meretz (3.9 percent).

Eli Yishai’s far-right outfit Yahad has so far attracted just three percent, insufficient for the minimum four-seat representation in Parliament.


50 posted on 03/17/2015 6:13:01 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

If Hussein ordered the Pentagon to nuke Israel tonight, who could stop him doing it? He is the epitome of evil, spite, hate, stupidity, odium and malice. I would not put it past him.


51 posted on 03/17/2015 6:17:51 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
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To: LibWhacker

Looks like about 80% of the votes counted now - Likud at 23.87%, ZU at 19.09%, and Yachad below threshold at 3.07%.


52 posted on 03/17/2015 6:24:10 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Based on the turnout figure of 71.8%, there should be about 4.22 million votes. 3.43 million counted so far.


53 posted on 03/17/2015 6:25:50 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: virgil
I’m just glad the Israel election wasn’t tilted by attempts at foreign interference. In fact, if this trend holds, it looks like the attempts backfired.

I wouldn't go that far. There is foreign (U.S.) influence in nearly every Israeli election, on all sides. The vast majority of Likud's campaign donations, for example, came from the U.S.

54 posted on 03/17/2015 6:26:10 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Dave346

Likud lead now at 4.67% which should be about 5.6 seats.


55 posted on 03/17/2015 6:27:11 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: goldstategop

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56 posted on 03/17/2015 6:27:42 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Dave346
Ynet: With 30.1 percent of the ballot boxes counted, the Likud has received 32 mandates to the Zionist Union's 25. According to the count, Yesh Atid will receive 11 seats and Kulanu 10. Naftali Bennett's Bayit Yehudi has seven and Eli Yishai's Yachad stands at 3 percent, close to the threshold.
57 posted on 03/17/2015 6:27:54 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Dave346

Seems Likud’s added seats have come from Bayit Yehudi and Yisrael Beitaynu (and Yachad) instead of switches from the Left.


58 posted on 03/17/2015 6:28:49 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Dave346

A slight drop but Zionist Union hasn’t closed the gap. We still have 20% left to be counted.

I don’t think the votes are there for ZU to make up the difference.


59 posted on 03/17/2015 6:28:52 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
JPost: Latest official vote tally: Likud wins 31 seats, Zionist Union gets 24
60 posted on 03/17/2015 6:30:22 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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