Israeli Election for Knesset, 2009

Vote Breakdown by City

 

Column entries are percentages of the vote by party for each community

Highlighted blocs indicate that the party did at least 10% better in the community than its national showing.

 

 

Blocs*

Unit**

Rightist Bloc

Center

Leftist

Bloc

Religious/

Ethnic

Arab

National

39

23

13

13

10

Ariel

          82

10

2

3

-

Ashkelon

55

16

6

11

4

Haifa

33

28

19

3

-

Jerusalem

41

11

9

34

-

Ra’anana

37

37

18

4

-

Tel Aviv

          28

34

23

8

-

Nazareth

-

 

-

-

64

kibbutzim

9

31

49

-

-

 

Highlighted cells indicate that the bloc did at least 10% better in the selected community than its national showing.

 

Source:

www.haaretz.com/news/how-they-voted-see-israel-election-results-by-city-sector-1.269923

 

Notes:

 

*Blocs:

 

Rightist: Likud, Israel Beteinu, National Union, Jewish Home

Center: Kadima

Leftist: Labor, Meretz

Religious/Ethnic: Shas, United Torah Judaism

Arab: United Arab List, Balad, Hadash  

 

**Unit:

Ariel – West Bank settlement

Ashkelon – coastal city near Gaza with large influx of Russian immigrants

Haifa – northern city with a significant Arab population

Jerusalem – mixed population with large concentration of the ultra-Orthodox

Ra’anana – affluent suburb of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv – cosmopolitan, secular coastal city

Nazareth – Arab city in the Galilee

Kibbutzim – entire kibbutz population, most in Galilee and Negev