In-depth survey reveals: One in four Israelis is undecided about who to vote for

August 31, 2022   

The Israel Democracy Institute's 'Israeli Voice Index' survey, published today (Wednesday), shows that the rate of those undecided in the upcoming elections is particularly high - with one in four Israelis still undecided about who to vote for in the elections. Change of address? Here you will find out if your details are already updated in the voter register. Two months before the elections, almost a quarter (23%) of the public is undecided about who to vote for in the upcoming elections: among Jews - in the center, 27% are undecided about who to vote for, slightly more than on the left (21%) and the right (20.5%). Among voters from the parties that made up the opposition, a large majority (78%) intend to vote for the same party in the upcoming elections as well, while only 4% indicated that they will vote for the coalition parties. In contrast, among voters from the parties that made up the coalition, only 43.5% intend to vote for the same party and an additional 10% indicated that they will vote for opposition parties - most of them former Yamina voters. How important are retired generals at the top of the parties to Israelis? The results showed that the Jewish public is divided: 47% responded that this is important to them, while 50% responded that it is not important to them. In the right and center camps, a similar proportion attach importance to this (53% and 49% respectively), compared to only 20% from the left camp. It was also found that it is more important for Jewish women than for men to have retired IDF officers at the top of the list (51% compared to 42%). Most Jewish respondents (61%) answered that in the upcoming elections they will vote like their family members or friends; of these, 38% will vote for the same party and another 23% will vote for another party but that is part of the same political camp. In Arab society, the data is bleak: half of the Arab interviewees think that it does not matter who they vote for - the situation will not change. Over a quarter (26%) of the Arabs responded that they do not intend to vote in the upcoming elections, and an additional 21% have not yet decided who to vote for. Of the Arab interviewees, about a third (32%) answered that they will vote for the same party as their family members or friends and 11% for another party. A high rate (30%) do not know who their family or friends are voting for. 61% of those who voted for the Joint List in the previous elections intend to do so again this time, compared to only 45% of those who voted for Ra'am. In addition, 15% of those who voted for Ra'am in the last elections indicated that they would vote for the Joint List this time, while only 1 percent of those who voted for the Joint List reported that they would vote for Ra'am this time. A large majority (75%) of the Arab interviewees who voted in the previous elections for non-Arab Zionist parties (about 19%) indicated that they would vote for them again in the upcoming elections. Over half of the Arab interviewees (54%) support the unification of the Joint List and Ra'am ahead of the upcoming elections, compared to over a quarter (27.5%) who oppose it. Most of those who voted for the Joint List (69%) and Ra'am (64%) in the 2021 elections support such a unification, compared to only half (49%) of those who voted for non-Arab Zionist parties and a quarter (25%) of those who did not vote at all in the last election.