General election in Israel April 2019

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(in %)
 %
30th
20th
10
0
26.46
26.13
11.77
7.82
4.43
4.01
3.70
3.63
3.54
8.54
Gains and losses
compared to 2015
 % p
 18th
 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
-14
-16
+3.06
+17.32
+1.01
-2.72
-14.24
-1.10
-6.01
-0.30
-3.95
+6.96
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Remarks:
b 2015: Yesh Atid
c of which Shas 5.99% and United Torah Judaism 5.78%
d of which Chadash - Ta'al 4.49% Ra'am - Balad 3.33%; 2015 with United List
e 2015: Zionist Union (18.67%)
g 2015: HaBajit haJehudi (6.74%) and Jachad - Otzma Jehudit (2.97%)
j of which HaJamin HeChadasch (3.22%) and Zehut (2.74%)
Distribution of seats in the 21st Knesset
6th
4th
4th
6th
35
4th
5
35
5
8th
8th
6th 4th 4th 6th 35 4th 5 35 5 8th 8th 
A total of 120 seats
Beth Knesset, the House of Congregation

The election for the 21st Knesset took place on April 9, 2019.

background

Starting position

The regular election to the 21st Knesset in November 2019 was brought forward due to tensions within the governing coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . After Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned because of the ceasefire with Hamas and his party Jisra'el Beitenu left the government, it only had a narrow majority with 61 of the 120 seats.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is suspected of corruption. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has been investigating a charge against him since late 2018. Netanyahu denies the allegations and has announced that he will remain in office if charges are brought against him.

At the end of February 2019, Mandelblit ruled that Netanyahu should be charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Netanyahu must be heard beforehand, which is why it can take up to a year before the charges are actually charged.

Suffrage

The voters have one vote to choose a list. The 120 seats are distributed proportionally according to the D'Hondt procedure among the lists that receive at least 3.25% of the vote. The seats assigned to the list are assigned to their candidates according to the order of the list.

Parties can enter into list connections in which no more than two lists may be involved. In this case, their votes will be added up for the distribution of seats, provided that both of them overcome the threshold clause.

Within the list connection, the seats are allocated according to the D'Hondt method.

Parties and electoral alliances

From the end of December 2018 to the end of the submission deadline on February 21, 2019, there were a number of party foundations as well as the dissolution and formation of new electoral alliances:

  • Benny Gantz , former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, founded the party Chosen LeJisra'el on December 27, 2018 . He first made an alliance with Moshe Jaalon (former chief of staff and Likud politician and defense minister), who had founded the Telem party (a party of the same name existed in the 1980s). On February 21, 2019, they agreed with Yesch Atid on a joint list in the political center called Kachol Lavan ("blue-white"). Gantz received first place on the list, Jesch Atid boss Jair Lapid place 2 and Yaalon place 3. In the event of an election victory, Gantz and Lapid are to take turns as prime ministers. Former chief of staff Gabi Aschkenasi , former minister of social affairs Meir Cohen and Avi Nissenkorn , former chairman of the trade union umbrella organization Histadrut , took up the other list positions .
  • On December 29, 2018, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ajelet Schaked announced their resignation from the HaBajit haJehudi party , of which Bennett had been chairman until then. They founded a new party called HaJamin HeChadasch ("The New Right") to take part in the parliamentary elections. HaBajit haJehudi competes (as in 2015) together with the Tkuma party . Shortly before the submission deadline, after long negotiations, an agreement was reached to give two list places to the extreme right-wing party Otzma Jehudit , which failed due to the threshold clause in the 2015 election as part of the Yachad list . The alliance ran under the name Union of right-wing parties .
  • On January 1, 2019, Avoda announced the Zionist Union election alliance with the Ha-Tnu'a party of former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and took part in the election alone. Ha-Tnu'a decided not to participate in the polls after bad poll results.
  • Already in 2016 from Yisrael Beiteinu leaked MPs Orly Levy founded the party Gescher ( "bridge"). A party of the same name had her father founded in the 1990s.
  • The alliance of the Arab parties, which came together as the United List in 2015 , broke up. First, the Ta'al party announced that it would take part in the election independently; on February 21, 2019, they agreed a joint list with the communist Chadash . The remaining parties on the United List, Balad and Ra'am , also ran a joint list.

Lists

A total of 40 lists competed. Seven submitted lists were withdrawn, including the Yahad list cited by Eli Jischai . The electoral commission originally excluded the Ra'am - Balad list from the election. Such an exclusion is possible if Israel is rejected as a Jewish and democratic state, incitement to racism , support for states hostile to Israel or anti-Israeli terrorism. The Supreme Court annulled this exclusion, but excluded Michael Ben-Ari , who was Otzma Jehudit's chairman in fifth place in the Union of Right-wing Parties , from the election.

The following list connections, which could help the parties involved to an additional seat, were entered into:

Top candidates

Survey

Israeli polls usually predict the number of seats, not the percentage of votes. No polls may be published on the third day before the election.

Surveys: Seat forecasts (120 seats in total)
Political party Seats
election
2015 		Seats
April 8,
2019 		Survey (institute / client, date of publication)
TNS Kantar /
Kan News
April 4, 2019 		Smith /
Jerus. Post
April 5, 2019 		Magaar Mochot /
103FM Radio
April 5, 2019 		Panel Project /
Channel13
April 5, 2019 		Midgam /
Jedi'ot A.
April 5, 2019
Likud 30th 30th 31 27 27 28 26th
Avoda 24 (1) 18th 8th 9 10 11 11
Chadash - Ta'al 13 13 8th 6th 6th 6th 7th
Ra'am - Balad 4th 4th 0 4th 4th
Kachol Lavan (Blue & White) 11 (2) 11 (2) 30th 28 32 28 30th
Kulanu 10 10 5 5 6th 4th 5
Union of right-wing parties 8 (3) 5 6th 6th 6th 7th 5
Schas 7th 7th 4th 6th 5 5 5
United Torah Judaism 6th 6th 6th 6th 8th 6th 7th
Jisra'el Beitenu 6th 5 0 5 0 4th 4th
Meretz 5 5 6th 5 8th 5 5
HaJamin HeChadasch (New Right) - 3 6th 5 6th 6th 6th
Gescher - 1 0 4th 0 0 0
Toe hat - - 6th 4th 6th 6th 5

Result

Political party be right % Seats +/-
Likud 1,140,370 26.46 35 +5
Kachol Lavan 1,125,881 26.13 35 +24
Schas 258.275 5.99 8th +1
United Torah Judaism 249,049 5.78 8th +2
Chadash - Ta'al 193,442 4.49 6th +1
Avoda 190,870 4.43 6th -12
Jisra'el Beitenu 173.004 4.01 5 ± 0
Union of right-wing parties 159,468 3.70 5 ± 0
Meretz 156.473 3.63 4th -1
Kulanu 152.756 3.54 4th –6
Ra'am - Balad 143,666 3.33 4th -4
HaJamin HeChadash 138,598 3.22 - -3
Toe hat 118.031 2.74 - -
Gescher 74,701 1.73 - -1
26 other lists 34,686 0.80 - -
valid votes 4,309,270 100 - -
invalid and empty votes 30,983 - - -
Total votes 4,340,253 - - -
Eligible voters / participation 6,339,729 68.46 - -
Source: votes21.bechirot.gov.il

criticism

The measure of the ruling Likud party to place around 1200 supporters, some of them hidden cameras and recording devices, mainly in Arab polling stations, received criticism. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw the measure as necessary to ensure fair elections. The measure was declared illegal by the Central Election Committee and several people were arrested for illegal filming.

See also

Web links

Commons : Parliamentary Election in Israel 2019  - Pictures, Videos and Audio Files Collection

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raoul Wootliff: 20th Knesset officially dissolves, sets elections for April 9, 2019 . The Times of Israel. December 26, 2018. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Early elections in Israel. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. December 24, 2018, accessed February 18, 2019 .
  3. ^ TOI staff: Attorney general could announce Netanyahu charges months before vote - reports. Retrieved February 18, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Benjamin Netanyahu rules out resignation on indictment. In: Die Zeit Online. December 31, 2018, accessed February 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Israel's Prime Minister: Netanyahu should be charged with corruption. In: The world . Online, February 28, 2019.
  6. ^ Knesset: Elections for the Knesset
  7. ^ Knesset: The Distribution of Knesset Seats Among the Lists - the Bader-Offer Method
  8. ^ Israel Hayom: Associates of Gantz and Ya'alon hint at more political pacts.
  9. ↑ ynet: Gantz, Lapid sign rotation agreement, to run together in elections.
  10. ^ New Israeli centrist alliance, to be called 'Blue and White,' aims to topple Netanyahu. In: World Israel News. February 21, 2019.
  11. ^ Knesset: House Committee approves split of MKs Bennett, Shaked and Moalem-Refaeli from Habayit Hayehudi.
  12. ↑ Jerusalem Post: Bayit Yehudi, Otzma Yehudit agree to run on one list.
  13. ^ Haaretz: Dramatic Split in Israeli Left as Labor Party Breaks Away From Tzipi Livni.
  14. ^ Jerusalem Post: Gesher list features socioeconomic activists.
  15. ^ Arutz Sheva: Arab parties reach deal for joint run - after PA intervenes.
  16. ^ Central Elections Committee: Lists of Candidates
  17. ^ Basic Law: The Knesset, Art. 7A
  18. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Israel's liberals strike back
  19. ^ Arutz Sheva: Poll: Understanding tomorrow's Israeli election ( israelnationalnews.com ).
  20. ↑ Arutz Sheva : Poll: Likud leads with 31 seats, Blue and White - 30 ( israelnationalnews.com ).
  21. ^ Jerusalem Post: 'Post' poll predicts easy win for Right. ( jpost.com ).
  22. ^ Israel HaYom : Last pre-election poll gives Gantz 32 seats, Netanyahu 27. ( israelhayom.com ).
  23. ^ Arutz Sheva: Poll: Likud and Blue and White tied with 28 seats. ( israelnationalnews.com ).
  24. ^ Arutz Sheva: Poll: Blue and White leads Likud as pre-election polling ends. ( israelnationalnews.com ).
  25. ↑ Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Tel Aviv: Likud sends members with cameras to the polling stations . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 9, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 30, 2019]).