Tuesday 27 October 2026 · 16 Heshvan 5787
Election to the 26th Knesset, 27 October 2026
The election day set by the Central Elections Committee. This page has no polls and no exit samples.
Last updated: 27 October 2026. Unofficial information. Confirm with your official election office (Central Elections Committee).
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Editorial preview
Last updated: 27 October 2026. Map the General Editorial Team.
What is being elected on Tuesday 27 October 2026 is the 26th Knesset. The Central Elections Committee set that day, 16 Heshvan 5787, as election day. The Knesset has 120 seats. The whole country is one constituency. Voters choose a list, and lists that clear the legal line share the seats in proportion to their votes. The government that follows is a matter for the Knesset after the official count. This page does not predict a coalition, does not call a winner, and does not describe a list’s programme. A programme is the text the list publishes.
How the day is organised, on the Committee’s pages read for this election, is a single polling day. Stations open at 07:00. Most stay open until 22:00. Some small stations close at 20:00. This site does not copy the identification steps used inside a station, and it does not copy the order of actions at the ballot box. Vote totals, when this site is allowed to show them, start from the Committee’s file after 22:00 Israel time. The legal deadline for publishing the official results in the Reshumot gazette is 4 November 2026. Until the Committee publishes a count, this page shows none. A seat allocation calculated from partial official totals is labelled unofficial, not final, and not an official seat allocation.
The line a list must clear, on the Committee’s page about elections in Israel, is 3.25 percent of the votes cast. A list below that line is not represented. Lists above it share the 120 seats in proportion to their votes. That is the system the Committee describes. This preview does not restate a formula the page did not print, and it does not apply the line to a set of figures, because no count is being published in this text. History, as far as the Committee’s title for this day goes, is that the election chooses the 26th Knesset. Earlier Knesset totals were not copied onto this page, so they are not repeated here as if they had been.
Candidate lists are the Committee’s lists. The Hebrew lists page for the 26th Knesset is the official list. The names on that page were not copied into this preview. Naming a list here without the Committee’s wording would add a label the preview did not take from that page, so it is not done. Readers who want the lists should open the Committee’s page. Readers who want a list’s own statement of its aims should open that list’s publication. This site does not rank the lists and does not say how a voter should choose among them.
The Elections (Modes of Propaganda) Law, as this site’s election-law table records it, bars publishing new election-survey results from the end of the Friday before polling day until the polls close. On 27 October 2026 that bar is in force until the close. This site prints no survey figure at any time, including before that Friday and after the close, and it prints no sample of voters leaving stations. The about page states that method. A correction of the date, the hours, or the 3.25 percent line should be checked against the Committee, which is the office named on this page.
Sources for this preview
Election day
The Central Elections Committee set Tuesday 16 Heshvan 5787, 27 October 2026, as election day for the 26th Knesset. gov.il
The Knesset has 120 seats. According to the Committee’s page on elections in Israel, a list needs 3.25 percent of the votes cast to be represented, and lists that pass share the seats in proportion to their votes. Elections in Israel
How to vote
The whole country is one constituency, and voters choose a list. Stations open at 07:00. Most stay open until 22:00, and some small stations close at 20:00. This site does not copy the identification steps used at a station.
Key dates
- 27 October 2026, 07:00: stations open.
- 27 October 2026, 20:00: some small stations close.
- 27 October 2026, 22:00: the other stations close. The count starts.
- 4 November 2026: the legal deadline for the official results in the Reshumot gazette.
Questions
- When is the Knesset election?
- Tuesday 27 October 2026, 16 Heshvan 5787, as set by the Central Elections Committee.
- When do polling stations open and close?
- Stations open at 07:00. Most stay open until 22:00; some small stations close at 20:00.
- How many seats are there, and what is the threshold?
- The Knesset has 120 seats. A list needs 3.25 percent of the valid votes to win seats, according to the Committee’s page on elections in Israel.
- How do people vote?
- The whole country is one constituency. Voters choose a list. This site does not copy the steps used inside the polling station.
- Where are the results?
- Vote totals come from the Central Elections Committee results file, on this site’s results page after 22:00. Any seat allocation this site calculates from those partial totals is unofficial, not final, and not an official seat allocation. There are no polls and no exit samples here.
- When are the official results published?
- The legal deadline for publishing the official results in the Reshumot gazette is 4 November 2026.
Official pages
- Central Elections Committee, date of the 26th Knesset election — read 2026-10-26
- Central Elections Committee, elections in Israel — read 2026-10-26
- Central Elections Committee — read 2026-10-27