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The Knesset election of 27 October: the Arab lists, the polls, the turnout and the rulings that shaped the ballot.
Latest · 23 Oct · Nationwide
All three TV polls put the Joint List at 9; Ra'am ranges from 5 to 7, and neither bloc reaches 61.
The 2026 election · Tuesday 27 October 2026
Hadash, Ta’al and Balad, headed by Yousef Jabareen, with Ahmad Tibi and Ofer Cassif on the slate.
Cleared to run by the Supreme Court on 2 October. Balad’s chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh withdrew a day earlier.
The United Arab List, led by Mansour Abbas; former police official Yoav Segalovitz is No. 2, the first Jewish candidate on its slate.
Cleared on 2 October. Gadi Eisenkot has said Ra’am will not sit in a government he leads.
Turnout decides how many seats the two lists win, and whether the change bloc can reach 61.
Stat-Net forecasts 63% Arab turnout, against about 53% in 2022. In Maariv’s poll 81% of Arab-party supporters said they would surely vote, up from 74% on 8 October.
Bars: projected seats, scale to twelve; the red mark is four seats, the size of the electoral threshold. Final polls: Madad for Channel 13, Midgam for Channel 12 and Kantar for Kan, 23 October, via the Times of Israel. Turnout: Stat-Net via the Times of Israel; Lazar for Maariv via Bokra.
All three TV polls put the Joint List at 9; Ra'am ranges from 5 to 7, and neither bloc reaches 61.
Polling-station members may not digitally tally who has voted and pass it to parties in real time.
Stat-Net forecasts 63%; Maariv's poll found intent to vote among Arab-party supporters up to 81%.
FakeReporter says billboards and Arabic polling link to companies of Yitzhak Mirilashvili.
At a Nazareth event the party said it would seek the internal security portfolio.
The Central Elections Committee set free travel from 8 pm on 26 October until services end on 27 October.
A list may need 171,000 to 195,000 votes to enter the Knesset this time, depending on turnout.
The court unanimously overturned the elections committee's bans on both lists and cleared MK Ofer Cassif by 7-2.
The Joint List polled 9 and Ra'am 5 at the start of the final month.
He set conditions including recognising Israel as a Jewish state; Segalovitz replied there is no Eisenkot government without Ra'am.