How Israel's sectors voted: Haredi, Arab and twelve communities before the 2026 count
Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho · Published · Updated
Before the count begins, it helps to know where each list's votes come from. Votes26 divided the polling stations into twelve sectors and looked at how each voted in the five elections of 2019–2022.
Twelve sectors, each by its own stations
Right-wing and centre-left strongholds, secular, national-religious, Judea and Samaria, Haredi, Arab, Druze, former-USSR immigrants, Ethiopian-Israelis, the northern border and the Gaza border. Most sectors were chosen by CBS data, the town and the station's features; the right and centre-left strongholds by how they voted.
Haredi voters
In 2022, at Haredi stations, United Torah Judaism won 56.6% of the vote and Shas 30.1%. Turnout at these stations was 73.4% — above the national 70.63%.
Arab voters
At Arab stations 91.1% of voters chose the Arab lists: Ra'am 36.1%, Hadash–Ta'al 30.6% and Balad 24.3%. Balad fell short of the threshold, so much of that vote won no seats. Turnout at Arab stations was 52.8%.
What to watch tonight
When one sector's stations are counted early, the national result in the first hours leans its way. Comparing every station with its own 2022 result shows whether a sector has really moved — not just who was counted first.
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- How the sectors voted, 2019–2022
- Haredi voters: how they voted
- Arab voters: how they voted
- The vote by socio-economic level
- Turnout by locality, against 2022