The Mapai, party of Premier David Ben Gurion, established a definite lead today with some 60 percent of the civilian votes cast throughout Israel in yesterday’s first national elections counted, it was announced here. The total and the soldier vote will be announced Friday.
Trailing the Labor Party, which received 34.4 percent, were the Religious Bloc, Mapam and Heruth, with 13.6, 12.6 and 11.2 percent of the vote, respectively. The General Zionists were in fifth place with. 5.7 percent; Progressives, 4.6 percent; Sephardi, 3.7 percent; and Communists, 3.5 percent.
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa civilian finals gave the Mapai 34 percent, Heruth 16.3, Religious Bloc 13.4, Mapam 9.4 General Zionists 7, Progressives 4.7 Sephardi 2.5 and Communists, 2.6. The soldier vote in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa district will not be announced separately but will be included In the overall total for the troops.
In Jerusalem incomplete results gave the Mapai first place with 28 percent, the Religions Bloc 23, Heruth 14, Progressives 3.3, Mapam 4, and General Zionists 1. In Abu Gosh, an all-Arab suburb of Jerusalem where 174 of a possible 194 ballots were cast, the Mapai received 165, the former Sternists eight and the Heruth one.
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