For the first time in a year and a half: The Right-wing bloc reaches 60 seats, Lapid falls to 9

September 26, 2024   

After a week of achievements in the north: A special mandate survey conducted by the Direct Polls Institute and published this evening (Thursday) on Channel 14 shows that the coalition bloc has gained dramatically - for the first time since 2023. According to the data, the right-wing bloc is winning 60 mandates. According to the survey, Likud has 30 mandates at the expense of Benny Gantz, who has weakened significantly. Shas maintains its strength, Otzma Yehudit is strengthening, and Yesh Atid is weakening. The full data: Likud with 30 mandates, the state camp weakened to 15 mandates compared to 17 in the previous survey. Yair Golan's Democrats with 11 mandates, Yesh Atid is weakening in a mandate and receiving a single-digit number of 9 mandates. United Torah Judaism with 8, Otzma Yehudit is strengthening in a mandate and stands at 7 mandates. Ra'am is also strengthening and stands at 6 mandates. Religious Zionism with 5, Hadash Ta'al with 5. The particularly dramatic figure that emerged from the survey shows a rise that has not been seen in the polls for a year and a half, after the collapse of the right-wing bloc in the polls after the last elections. According to the division into blocs, the right-wing bloc stands at 60 seats for the coalition, and the opposition is weakened to 50 seats, 10 Arab parties. [Gallery]

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In relation to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who heads the right-wing bloc, he receives 45% compared to 48% in the previous survey. With Gantz also weakening and standing at 26% compared to 27%. 29% believed that none of them are suitable. Also against Yair Lapid - Netanyahu receives 46% and Lapid weakened by two percentage points to 24%. 30% believed that none of them are suitable. The sample was conducted by Shlomo Filber and Zuriel Sharon through Direct Pulse Ltd. for Channel Now 14 on September 26, 2024, using a digital system combined with a panel, among 583 adult respondents (18+) who constitute a representative sample of the general population in Israel. The statistical sampling error is ± 4.4% with a probability of 95%.