Official figures of the results of the primary elections show 93 Jews, 126 Moslems, 22 Christians and eight of the other sects were elected to the Electoral College.
Of the 245 elected the non-Jewish groups will have a plurality of sixty-eight.
Owing to the Arab boycott of the elections, there are still vacancies in the Electoral College.
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