Channel 14’s exit poll for the 26th Knesset elections, released Tuesday evening as polls closed, shows a tight split: the right-wing bloc wins 60 seats, the left-wing bloc 43 seats, and the Arab parties 17 seats. That’s a slight shift from Shlomo Filber’s final pre-election poll, which gave the right 62 seats, the left 44, and the Arab parties 14.
According to the exit poll, Likud under Benjamin Netanyahu remains the largest party with 30 seats—unchanged from the last poll. Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party gets 19 seats, down from 20 in the previous poll, while Naftali Bennett’s Beyachad holds steady at 11 seats.
Among coalition parties, Shas wins 9 seats, United Torah Judaism 7, Otzma Yehudit 7, and Religious Zionism and Zehut under Bezalel Smotrich 7 seats. On the other side, the Democrats led by Yair Golan get 9 seats, while Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu drops to just 4 seats, down from 5 in the last poll.
One of the most striking changes in the exit poll came from the Arab parties, which increased their combined strength from 14 seats in the last poll to 17. Hadash wins 10 seats and Ra’am 7. The surge comes on the back of high turnout in the Arab sector, which also largely explains the slight drop in the right-wing bloc’s seat count compared to the final poll.
In the final tally, Channel 14’s exit poll puts the right-wing bloc at 60 seats—two fewer than Filber’s last poll. The left-wing bloc drops one seat to 43, while the Arab parties record a three-seat jump to reach 17 together.