#Israelex4 update: 4,435,805 votes tallied (+6,287).

No changes:
Likud 30
Yesh Atid 17
Shas 9
Blue & White 8
Yamina 7
Lieberman 7
Labor 7
UTJ 7
New Hope 6
RZP 6
Meretz 6
Joint List 6
Ra'am 4
Updated candidate chart (I'm not calling it "Candidates at risk" anymore because the results are pretty much final and nobody here is at risk):
We have a new record for fewest votes in a national election: The Human Dignity Party, with 196.

(The Democratic Party has only 59, but they dropped out of the race - those votes will be removed from the count just before it is certified.)
* If the threshold were 0%, the New Economic Party would have received one seat, coming at Shas's expense.

* If the threshold were 4%, Ra'am would not have entered the Knesset. That would have caused the following changes:
Likud 32 (+2)
Yesh Atid 18 (+1)
Yamina 8 (+1)
* The only beneficiary of vote-sharing agreements was Meretz, taking a seat that would otherwise have gone to the Likud.

* The only beneficiary of the Bader-Ofer law was the Likud, taking a seat that would otherwise have gone to Ra'am.
* The lack of a Ra'am-Joint List vote-sharing agreement did not harm the two parties in the end.

* And of course the biggest takeaway of this election:

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25 Mar
#Israelex4 update: 4,351,786 votes tallied (+61,410).

No changes:
Likud 30
Yesh Atid 17
Shas 9
Blue & White 8
Yamina 7
Lieberman 7
Labor 7
UTJ 7
New Hope 6
RZP 6
Meretz 6
Joint List 6
Ra'am 4
Candidates at risk:

The Joint List continues to fall and is in some ways now more likely than Shas to lose a seat (in contrast to what I said in my tweet of two minutes ago!).

If that's the case, the Likud really might gain a seat at their expense as more votes come in.
Meretz is still in grave danger of losing a seat to Labor. New Hope is still in grave danger of losing a seat to Yamina.

Prior to this update I'd have told you that those two scenarios were getting more unlikely. Now I'm not so sure.
Read 4 tweets
25 Mar
With the CEC actively tallying the absentee ballots for #Israelex4, let's talk a bit about how the results might change.
The first thing to realize is that nobody knows how the absentee ballots will lean, because this year they include COVID patients and citizens voting in the airport on their way into the country and other demographically ambiguous groupings.
All we know is that there are more of them. You'll see media outlets claim that the absentee ballots this time are worth 11 or even 13 seats.

This is true but misleading: no one party will get 100% of the absentee ballots.
Read 16 tweets
24 Mar
So, with what appears to be all of the regular ballots counted, and the CEC about to start on the absentee ballots, where do we stand with #Israelex4?

First, the seat counts:
The party closest to the threshold is Ra'am, but it is not even close to being in danger. We would have to count 916,502 absentee ballots without finding a single Ra'am vote for the party to fall, and there just aren't that many.
Ra'am did however benefit from the one party to fall beneath the threshold: The New Economic Party could have had enough votes to receive one seat, but that seat went to Ra'am instead.
Read 9 tweets
24 Mar
#Israelex4 major update: 1,873,416 votes tallied (42.13% of the vote).

Results so far:
Likud 32
Yesh Atid 16
Shas 10
UTJ 9
Yamina 8
Lieberman 8
RZP 7
Blue & White 7
New Hope 6
Labor 6
Joint List 6
Meretz 5

Ra'am has fallen below the threshold!
Ra'am is at 3.24% of the vote, less than 300 votes below the threshold (which stands at 60525 votes).

elections24.dicta.org.il is now no longer predicting that Ra'am will be in the Knesset.
Right now Ra'am's lost seats go to the Likud (2), Yamina, and Sa'ar (1 each).

If we stopped counting votes now, this would be the most damaging fall below the threshold in Israel's history. ALL FOUR SEATS went to right-wing parties. We have never seen a bloc lose more than two.
Read 5 tweets
23 Mar
In advance of reporting on the #Israelex4 results tonight, here's a thread of frequently asked questions that I get every election. I will be adding to it periodically over the course of the day.
Q: Why don't you cover exit polls?
A: Exit polls in any election are problematic; it's well known they are usually less accurate than the final pre-election polls (though Israel's polling moratorium law mitigates that somewhat).
But this cycle's exit polls will be even less useful than usual. Thanks to the pandemic, the CEC set up extra ballot boxes to prevent crowding and infection.

So I will be particularly insistent on ignoring them this time around.
Read 22 tweets
23 Mar
Turnout for #Israelex4 at 10:00 was 14.8%, slightly higher than #Israelex3's 14.5% turnout at the same time of day.
The pace has dropped off a bit. #Israelex4 turnout at 12:00 was 25.4%, down from 27.6% in #Israelex3.

Correction from previous tweet. #Israelex4 turnout at 14:00 was 34.6%, down from 38.1% in #Israelex3.
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