Negev ballots lift Ra'am as Netanyahu's projected bloc shrinks
A partial count gives Ra'am six seats while Likud and United Torah Judaism each lose one, leaving the governing bloc short of a majority.
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Ballots from the Negev have shifted Israel's provisional parliamentary picture, lifting Ra'am's projected representation while reducing the seats assigned to Benjamin Netanyahu's governing bloc.
Israel's Channel 14 reports that, with roughly two-thirds of votes counted, Ra'am has gained two projected seats to reach six. Its correspondent, reporting from the Central Elections Committee in Jerusalem, attributes the change to ballots counted from the southern desert region. Ra'am, led by Mansour Abbas, is an Islamist party formally known as the United Arab List.
In the same update, Likud remains the largest party but falls by one projected seat to 27. United Torah Judaism, an ultra-Orthodox alliance, also loses one, leaving it with seven.
Anchor Lital Shemesh's broadcast puts the governing right-wing bloc at 54 seats. The grouping the broadcast labels the left bloc has 48, while Arab parties hold a combined 18, including the Joint List's 12.
These are seat projections from an incomplete count, not final election results. With 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-member Knesset, the update leaves Netanyahu's existing partners unable to govern alone. The remaining ballots can still change the distribution presented in this report.
An Islamist and conservative political party in Israel, formally called the United Arab List. It is led by Mansour Abbas.
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Which region's ballots does the report link to Ra'am's projected gains?
The correspondent attributes Ra'am's increase to the counting of ballots from the Negev.