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What happened next?Continue in this file · Israel: 2026 election and formation of a majority
File · Israel: 2026 election and formation of a majority
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Israelis vote to elect a new Knesset

Voting began in Israel’s parliamentary election on 27 October 2026. More than 7.3 million eligible voters are choosing the members of the Knesset in a contest testing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

The Knesset in Jerusalem in June 2005. Archive photograph, not the 2026 vote.
The Knesset in Jerusalem in June 2005. Archive photograph, not the 2026 vote. — Joshua Paquin / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ — 5 juin 2005 ; correction de perspective préexistante, sans modification supplémentaire.

Around 12,000 polling stations are serving voters; most are due to close at 10pm local time. Israelis vote for party lists, which subsequently negotiate the formation of a parliamentary majority.

The Knesset has 120 seats and a government needs support from at least 61 members. The opening of polling stations starts national voting, rather than establishing a winner: at the 7am UTC reporting cutoff, the outcome and the composition of the next coalition remain unknown.

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