The number of eligible voters for the new Knesset was slightly more than two million, an increase of 15 percent compared to the eligible voters to the previous Knesset elections in 1969. Some 17 percent of the additional 290,000 eligible voters live in the large three cities. The largest addition in voters is in Jerusalem, where there has been a considerable increase in population since the last elections. Some 1.8 million were eligible voters for the municipalities elections. About 109,000 could not vote for the Knesset because they were not Israeli citizens. They included 43,000 inhabitants of East Jerusalem.
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