87% Of Vote Counted: Rightist Bloc Falls Below 60 Seats As Arab List Clears Threshold

By Staff Reporter
Posted on 03/24/21 | News Source: Arutz-7

With 87.5% of the vote counted, United Arab List now projected to clear threshold - denying right-wing bloc a majority.

The United Arab List (Ra’am) party of Mansour Abbas has cleared the electoral threshold, ensuring its entry into the 24th Knesset, according to the latest data released by Israel’s Central Elections Committee Wednesday morning.

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With 87.5% of the vote counted, UAL has thus far received 154,965 votes, or 4.03% of all valid ballots, well above the 3.25% electoral threshold. It has now received more than the estimated cutoff number of votes for the threshold, roughly 144,000.

UAL’s entry into the Knesset has reduced the right-wing – religious bloc’s share of seats and deprived it of an outright majority, even with Yamina included. Read more at Arutz-7