Class and the vote: the better-off the neighbourhood, the weaker the right bloc and the higher the turnout
Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho · Published
Every polling station in Israel sits in a CBS statistical area, and every area has a socio-economic cluster, from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). Put the two together and you get one of the sharpest pictures of Israeli politics.
The vote in each cluster
The chart shows how stations in each of the ten clusters voted in the five elections of 2019–2022.
The right bloc by class
In 2022, at Jewish non-Haredi stations, the right bloc won 75.9% of the vote in cluster 2 and 19.7% in cluster 10. Haredi and Arab stations are left out of this comparison so that religion and nationality do not hide the link to class.
And turnout
At the same stations turnout was 54.2% in cluster 2 and 70.6% in cluster 10. The better-off neighbourhoods do not only vote differently — they also vote more.
Where the data comes from
Results by station from the Central Elections Committee; the stations' statistical areas and the socio-economic index (2019) from the CBS. This is a link between neighbourhoods, not a description of individual voters.
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