{"id":1916,"date":"2026-10-28T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/netanya-election-turnout-neighborhoods-20261028-en\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T19:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:01:57","slug":"netanya-election-turnout-neighborhoods-20261028-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/netanya-election-turnout-neighborhoods-20261028-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanya election: 60.2% turnout; Likud leads with 35.62%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turnout in Netanya in Israel&#8217;s 26th Knesset election reached 60.2%, compared with 77.7% nationally, a gap of 17.5 percentage points. Participation varied considerably among the city&#8217;s voting areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hof HaZahav (Blue Bay) recorded the highest rate, 79.9%, while Kiryat Sanz registered the lowest, 42.6%. The difference was 37.3 percentage points. Turnout was 79% in Kiryat HaSharon and 78.1% in Agamim.<\/p>\n<p>According to News08 citing the Central Elections Committee, as of 10:58 p.m. on October 27, 129,292 of Netanya&#8217;s 214,856 eligible voters had voted. Blue Bay has only 656 registered voters, making it a relatively small area. In Kiryat HaSharon, 13,593 of 17,203 eligible voters cast ballots.<\/p>\n<h2>Turnout by voting area in Netanya<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Area<\/th>\n<th>%<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Ramat Poleg<\/td>\n<td>69.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ir Yamim<\/td>\n<td>70.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kiryat Nordau<\/td>\n<td>60.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HaIrusim<\/td>\n<td>69.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Agamim<\/td>\n<td>78.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Galei Yam<\/td>\n<td>47.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Neot Shaked<\/td>\n<td>58.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dora<\/td>\n<td>63.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nof HaTayelet<\/td>\n<td>60.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ramat Hen<\/td>\n<td>70.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ben Zion<\/td>\n<td>71.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Southern city centre<\/td>\n<td>48.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ramat Efraim<\/td>\n<td>60.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Northwest city centre<\/td>\n<td>45.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Northeast city centre<\/td>\n<td>62.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Neot Herzl<\/td>\n<td>60.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kochav HaTzafon<\/td>\n<td>74.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pardes HaGdud<\/td>\n<td>62.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kiryat Sanz<\/td>\n<td>42.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ein HaTkhelet<\/td>\n<td>71.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hof HaZahav (Blue Bay)<\/td>\n<td>79.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kiryat HaSharon<\/td>\n<td>79.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kiryat Rabin<\/td>\n<td>75.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mishkenot Zvulun<\/td>\n<td>73.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Neot Ganim<\/td>\n<td>68.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Neve Itamar<\/td>\n<td>71.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the November 2022 Knesset election, turnout in Netanya was 58.3%, so the current figure is 1.9 percentage points higher. The area breakdown reflects polling-station locations, not necessarily each voter&#8217;s home address. Turnout alone does not indicate how voters chose parties. Figures remain subject to change until the final official results are published.<\/p>\n<h2>Vote distribution<\/h2>\n<p>According to 90FM, after all 319 city polling stations were processed, 123,552 valid ballots were counted and 650 were invalid. Likud led with 35.62%, or 44,007 votes, followed by Gadi Eisenkot\u2019s party with 15.32%, or 18,922 votes. These figures reflect the count available when this update was published and may change after double-envelope ballots are processed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/90fm.co.il\/hlykvd-brash-hpar-mayznkvt-mshmavty-ntvny-hhtsbah-bntnyh\/\">90FM: Netanya voting results, October 28, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news08.net\/%D7%A9%D7%AA%D7%99-%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%9B%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%98-80-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%96%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%90%D7%97\/\">News08, 28.10.2026<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/votes26.bechirot.gov.il\/cityresults?lang=he\">Central Elections Committee \/ \u05d5\u05e2\u05d3\u05ea \u05d4\u05d1\u05d7\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05e8\u05db\u05d6\u05d9\u05ea<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynet.co.il\/knesset\/hila\">Ynet election coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turnout in Netanya reached 60.2%. With all 319 city polling stations counted, Likud had 35.62% of valid votes and Eisenkot\u2019s party 15.32%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ni_lang":"en","_ni_group":"election-turnout-netanya-20261028","_ni_kind":"news","_ni_source_url":"https:\/\/www.news08.net\/%D7%A9%D7%AA%D7%99-%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%9B%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%98-80-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%96%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%90%D7%97\/","_ni_source_name":"News08 \/ Central Elections Committee","_ni_source_date":"2026-10-28","_ni_feature":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-netania-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netania.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}