The final count of the votes in last Tuesday’s elections shows that the Likud now has 43 seats in the Knesset, an increase of four compared to the previous Knesset, and that the Labor Alignment has 32 seats, a loss of 19 seats. The final count also shows that the Democratic Movement for Change has 15 seats and that Rakah has five seats, an increase of one.
The seats for the other parties according to the official results, along with the seats they had in the previous Knesset shown in parentheses, are: National Religious Party, 12 (10); Aguda, 4 (4); Sheli (a coalition of Moked and several other left-wing groupings), 2 (in the previous Knesset, Moked had I); Shlomzion, 2 (0); Flatto-Sharon, I (0); Independent Liberals, I (4); Citizens Rights, I (3); United Arab List, I (3); and Poalei Aguda, I (1).
The final count, which included the army vote, also shows that some 74,000 Israelis eligible to vote could not cast their ballots because their names were not included in the voter registration list. Justice Elijah Manny, chairman of the central elections committee, told the Army Radio that “masses of voters could not cast their ballots because the Interior Ministry did not prepare a new voters’ register.” The votes were the equivalent of five Knesset seats.
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