About the method

The map shows how each neighbourhood voted, using the smallest unit Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics publishes: the statistical area. Figures on this page are for the 2022 election.

The unit: statistical areas

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) splits towns of roughly 10,000 people or more into statistical areas of a few thousand residents each. Smaller towns, villages, kibbutzim and moshavim are one area each. The map uses the CBS 2022 boundaries: 3,857 areas, of which 3,524 contain at least one polling station.

Votes are counted where they are cast. An area's result is the total of the polling stations that stand inside it. Voters are assigned to a station near their address, so this is close to how the area's residents voted, but not exactly: a station can serve streets on both sides of an area boundary.

Polling stations sit in a few buildings, mostly schools, so many neighbourhoods have people but no station inside their own boundary; their residents vote in the school next door. Such an area shows the result of the nearest area with a station in the same town, and its details say "estimated". An area counts as lived in when the 2022 census gives it residents, or when OpenStreetMap maps at least 15% of it (and at least 3 hectares) as housing; the second test catches neighbourhoods the census file leaves out. Areas nobody lives in stay pale cream, as in the original map. Built-up land where nobody lives, such as ports, refineries, industrial zones and business parks, is grey: areas of at most 10 km² at least half covered by industrial, commercial or campus land in OpenStreetMap.

The colour rule: more than two thirds

Parties are grouped into the two camps of Israeli politics, the Bibi bloc (Netanyahu's parties) and the Change bloc (the parties of the Bennett-Lapid government), plus the Arab parties:

An area takes a colour only when one bloc won more than two thirds of valid votes there. The colour is that bloc's leading party in the area. If no bloc passes two thirds, the area is pale yellow ("no bloc above 2/3"). Votes for lists that fell below the electoral threshold still count in the total, so they make it harder for any bloc to reach two thirds.

This is a strict test on purpose. A pale yellow area is not a close race; it is any area where the losing blocs together won at least a third of the vote.

Bloc view. The "Bloc" switch shows only the two camps: dark where a bloc won more than two thirds of valid votes, light where it won a majority, green where the Arab parties hold a majority (they belong to neither camp), and pale yellow where no one has a majority.

Stripes: a strong second party

Inside a coloured area, the second party of the same bloc is shown as stripes over the leader's colour when it won at least half as many votes as the leader. At most two parties are shown per area, so the legend stays short. A strong second party from a different bloc is never shown as stripes; it already shows in the area being coloured at all, or not.

Placing polling stations

The results file lists every polling station by town and station number, without coordinates. Each station was placed in a statistical area by the first method that worked, best first:

1. One-area towns. If the town is a single statistical area, the station belongs to it. This is exact and covers most of the country's localities.
2. Address or venue. The station's address and venue from the Central Elections Committee's official 2022 station list, located with our own OpenStreetMap lookup: the house number where it is mapped, else the venue by name (usually a school), else the street. Where the address and the venue are both found but more than 500 m apart, neither is trusted.
3. Nearest-numbered neighbour. Stations are numbered roughly by neighbourhood, so a station with no usable location borrows the area of the nearest-numbered station in the same town. These are marked "placed approximately" in the details panel. 690 of 11,127 mapped stations were placed this way.

A point only counts if it falls inside its own town's boundary. That check catches most bad coordinates.

In East Jerusalem, large neighbourhoods have no polling station because most residents are not citizens and cannot vote for the Knesset. There, an area whose whole census group has no station takes the result of the nearest area in the city where Arab parties won, not of the nearest station, which is often in a Jewish neighbourhood.

In some towns, mostly Arab towns, the official list gives only the town name as the address and the venues are not in OpenStreetMap, so no station can be placed. There, every populated area shows the whole town's result, and the details panel says so.

Some places that vote have no CBS boundary at all: army bases and several Negev Bedouin tribes. They are drawn as rough outlines taken from OpenStreetMap, or as circles where OpenStreetMap has nothing, with a dashed border. They hold 7,230 votes. CBS also publishes about 130 localities, mostly West Bank settlements, as a tiny placeholder instead of a boundary; they are drawn with their built-up area as mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Double envelopes and other votes off the map

Soldiers, hospital patients, prisoners, diplomats and some others vote in "double envelopes". These are counted together in one national pseudo-locality with no address, so they cannot be mapped. In 2022 they came to 458,714 valid votes, 9.6% of the national total of 4,764,742. The map's side panel has a box giving them by bloc and by party, so they are not lost.

A further 166,993 votes come from stations that could not be placed in any statistical area. They are counted but not drawn.

What is approximate

• Stations placed by a nearest-numbered neighbour (flagged in the details panel).
• Areas with residents but no station of their own, coloured from the nearest station (marked "estimated").
• Which land is lived in or built up: the census where it has a figure, OpenStreetMap land use otherwise. The OpenStreetMap data is current, so a neighbourhood built after the election can count as lived in.
• Settlement outlines from OpenStreetMap where CBS gives only a placeholder.
• Outlines for army bases and Bedouin tribes, which come from OpenStreetMap or are plain circles.
• Area boundaries are simplified for the web: to about 3 metres when zoomed in, and more coarsely when zoomed out, where the difference is smaller than a screen pixel.
• Station locations come from OpenStreetMap, which maps house numbers in only some towns; elsewhere the venue or the street is used.
• Towns founded after the 2022 CBS boundaries were drawn are shown as the combined boundary of the localities they replaced.
• Small areas with few voters can swing a lot on a handful of votes.

Differences from the original

The layout and the two-thirds rule follow Sergei Kondrashov's map of the 25th Knesset results. Two things differ. This map groups parties into the two camps Israeli media used in 2022, the Bibi bloc (Netanyahu's parties) and the Change bloc (the parties of the outgoing Bennett-Lapid government), plus the Arab parties. The original used ideological trends instead: it counts Yisrael Beytenu with the right and National Unity with neither camp, which is why Ariel and parts of the Tel Aviv coast look different. This map also adds the double-envelope box. Nothing from the original image or its data is reused; every number here was rebuilt from public sources.

Using the map

• Hover over an area, or tap it on a phone, to see its results. The panel gives bloc shares, every party above half a percent, and any placement caveats.
• Type a town in English or Hebrew in the search box to zoom to it and see the town's total.
• Keyboard: / jumps to search; arrow keys pick a town and Enter zooms to it. Click the map (or tab to it) and use the arrow keys to move, + and - to zoom, and Enter to read the area under the cross in the middle.
• The map's position is kept in the address bar, so a link can be shared to a particular view.