Tal Elovits
Consulting, research and policy
Poll filings for the 26th Knesset

In English

The data behind the seat projections

The seat projections you see in the media are calculated, not measured. Before a number reaches the screen, someone has decided whom to count, what to do with undecided voters, and which lists to offer respondents. During an election campaign, and only then, you can see the numbers from before that calculation.

Section 16E of the Elections (Means of Propaganda) Law, 5719–1959 requires every polling institute to file with the Central Elections Committee the raw support percentage for each list — including lists below the electoral threshold, and with no adjustment for how seats are allocated. That duty is why this data exists. This archive publishes what was filed, and says what each filing does and does not contain.

Support composition: the coalition against everyone else

One bar per institute, rescaled so that everyone who chose a list adds up to 100%. Which list belongs to which bloc is our call, not a figure from the filings. Answers that are not a list — undecided, not voting, and “another party” — are left out, even where the institute published them, so they count towards neither side.

Raw support as filed, by list and by institute

The date is the day the survey was run, not the day it was filed with the Committee.

What we do and do not claim

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