PoliticsNetanyahu’s party remains ahead with 97.3% of ballots counted, election committee says
Preliminary figures from Israel’s Central Elections Committee show Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, still in first place after 97.3% of ballots from the October 27 parliamentary election were counted, with 27 of 120 seats projected. Netanyahu’s bloc is projected to win 53 seats, the opposition 48 and Arab parties 19; no bloc has reached the 61 seats needed to form a government.
Netanyahu’s party remains ahead with 97.3% of ballots counted, election committee says