Israeli election: exit polls – Likud and Zionist Union 27 seats
March 17, 2015
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu closed a gap with center-left rival Isaac Herzog in a hard-fought Israeli election on Tuesday, exit polls showed, leaving both men with a chance to rule but Netanyahu with the clearer path to forming a coalition. A new centrist party, Kulanu, led by a former member of Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud, seemed destined to emerge the kingmaker in possibly weeks of coalition negotiations.
Two television polls, for Channel 10 and Channel 1, said Likud and Herzog’s Zionist Union had each secured 27 seats each in the 120-member Knesset. Channel 2 gave Netanyahu a narrow edge, with 28 to 27 for his challenger. Final results are not expected until early on Wednesday morning.