64 of 120 seats on 48.4% of the votes. 417,400 votes elected no one.
Israel's 3.25% entry threshold decided who sat in the Knesset in 2022. Meretz fell short by about 4,060 votes. The country votes again on 27 October 2026 under the same rule.
Guess first
Meretz won 150,793 votes. The threshold was 3.25% of all valid votes. How many more votes would it have needed to win seats?
Move the threshold
3.25%
0Likud, Religious Zionism-Otzma, Shas, United Torah Judaism (the four lists that formed the 2022 government)
0All other lists that pass the threshold
Seats are recomputed from the official vote counts with the Bader-Ofer method and no surplus-vote agreements, so the model is off by one seat for two lists at 3.25% (Likud 31 vs 32 official, Labor 5 vs 4). The table below always shows the official seats.
Every list, official count
Show the 27 smallest lists (all under 0.04%)
Why it matters on 27 October 2026
The Knesset dissolved on 17 July 2026, the first Knesset to see out a full term since 1988. The vote is on 27 October 2026 for all 120 seats, nationwide, closed lists, threshold 3.25%.
38 parties filed lists by the 8 September deadline. On 23 September the Central Elections Committee barred Ra'am and the Joint List, and the Supreme Court overturned that the same day (secondary source).
A Channel 12 poll cited by Al Jazeera on 17 July had Gadi Eizenkot's Yashar on 23 seats, Likud on 22, and the Bennett-Lapid list on 16. It put the Netanyahu bloc at 51 and the opposing parties at 59, with Arab parties on 10. Neither side had 61.
A poll in seats cannot show wasted votes. In 2022 the lists just under 3.25% decided how many votes counted, which is why small parties near the line matter most.
Sources
Central Elections Committee, 25th Knesset national results (final, official): votes25.bechirot.gov.il. Valid votes 4,764,742; registered 6,788,804; turnout 70.63%. Read on 18 Oct 2026.
Al Jazeera, "Knesset dissolves: How will Israel vote in October's general election?", 17 July 2026: aljazeera.com. Date, threshold, Channel 12 poll.
Wikipedia, 2026 Israeli legislative election (secondary, snapshot of early October 2026): en.wikipedia.org. Number of lists and the disqualification episode.
Wikipedia, 2022 Israeli legislative election: en.wikipedia.org. English list names, matched against the official table.
Method: the 3.25% line is applied to valid votes (4,764,742 x 0.0325 = 154,854.1, so 154,855 votes). Wasted votes are valid votes for lists that won no seats.