Socio-Economic and Demographic Analysis of the 2019 Israeli Elections

Except during the 2013 elections, the voter share of non-sectorial parties has been constantly rising since the abolition of the direct voting system in 2001 and is now close to the rate of support held by these parties before the initiation of the system following the 1992 elections. [...] Thus, if the variable equals 0%, it indicates that the examined block received the same percentage of votes in the SA as in the municipality, and if it equals 100%, then it indicates that the examined block received two times more support in the SA as in the municipality. [...] Nonetheless, in two separate cases, in which the CLZ camp was headed by former Chiefs of the General Staff of the IDF, the majority of immigrants from the former USSR voted to the CLZ camp, which ended in a victory for that camp (1992 and 1999). [...] In light of the fact the Lieberman aspired to be the decisive factor in the upcoming elections different parties are most likely to attempt and gain the support of their vote. [...] In the 2019 elections, on average 36.0% of the voters in those areas voted Likud, in line with the rising trend in the party's voting.