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Exit polls show no clear winner in Israeli election
Israelis voted Tuesday in their first national election since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, with record turnout and exit polls showing no clear winner.[3, 45, 55 +1] Exit polls projected Gadi Eisenkot's opposition bloc with 52 to 53 seats, Netanyahu's coalition with 50, and Arab parties with 17 to 18, according to Axios; CNN cited a Channel 12 poll putting the opposition at 52, Netanyahu's bloc at 50 and Arab parties at 18.[6, 25] Neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot has the 61 Knesset seats needed to form a government, pointing to weeks of coalition negotiations, NBC News and PBS reported.[41, 45, 67]
The Washington Times reported that Netanyahu's Likud party won the highest share of votes, but that neither he nor Eisenkot, a former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, has a clear path to forming a government.[83] Eisenkot said millions of Israelis voted for change, saying they were tired of Netanyahu's 'lies', Al Jazeera reported.[94]
Mediaite reported that Netanyahu's Likud had drawn up complaints and allegations of voter fraud related to high turnout in the Israeli Arab community, and The Western Journal reported Netanyahu urged supporters to vote, saying he was 'deeply concerned' by initial data.[40, 87] Election officials rejected a last-ditch Likud petition to extend voting hours, The Washington Examiner reported.[90]
Covered by The New York Times, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and 44 more
Background Israel election: what we know so far
Where accounts differ (1)
- Facts differAxios reported exit polls giving Eisenkot's bloc 52 to 53 seats and Arab parties 17 to 18, while CNN's cited Channel 12 poll put the opposition at 52 seats and Arab parties at 18.[6, 25]
- Axios · Center · Oct 27, 4:08 p.m. ET Israeli exit polls: Netanyahu bloc loses, but Eisenkot's short of clear majority
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition is projected to lose its parliamentary majority, but his opponent Gadi Eisenkot's bloc is short of 61 seats, according to Israeli exit polls. The exit…
- Raw Story · Leans left · Oct 27, 5:26 p.m. ET ‘Chaos!’ Shock after election leaves Trump ally's opponent holding ‘all the leverage’
Early exit polls from Israel's high-stakes election set off a wave of stunned reactions online, with observers zeroing in on one unexpected kingmaker. Israel's Channel 12 exit poll put the opposition bloc at 52 seats,…
- Axios · Center · Oct 27, 4:08 p.m. ET Israeli exit polls: Netanyahu bloc loses, but Eisenkot's short of clear majority
How balanced is this coverage?
Of the 41 rated outlets that covered it, 9 are left of center, 19 are center and 13 are right of center (8 of them in the Right group). 6 more are not rated.
- Left: none.
- Leans left: Slate (−1.18), New York Magazine (−1.13), Raw Story (−0.94), The New Yorker (−0.85), Talking Points Memo (−0.78), MS NOW (−0.76), The New York Times (−0.70), The Guardian (−0.70), NPR (−0.68).
- Center: NBC News (−0.49), PBS NewsHour (−0.48), TIME (−0.40), Newsweek (−0.30), The Week US (−0.30), The Economist (−0.23), Foreign Policy (−0.20), ABC News (−0.19), International Business Times (−0.14), CBS News (−0.14), The Christian Science Monitor (−0.09), Axios (−0.05), Mediaite (+0.04), Yahoo News (+0.07), Bloomberg (+0.08), The Hill (+0.10), UPI (+0.17), Forbes (+0.19), CNBC (+0.40).
- Leans right: The Wall Street Journal (+0.63), New York Post (+0.64), The Dispatch (+0.85), Reason (+0.94), The American Conservative (+1.06).
- Right: The Washington Times (+1.27), Washington Examiner (+1.34), Fox News (+1.52), National Review (+1.59), Breitbart (+2.03), The Daily Wire (+2.07), The Western Journal (+2.13), The Right Scoop (+3.11).
Not rated Al Jazeera, BBC News, Los Angeles Times, NewsNation, Semafor, Financial Times. Not placed: they have no lean score.
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