Elections in Israel
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon voting, at a Jerusalem polling station in a school.
In Jerusalem, as in Israel as a whole, the party that gets
the most votes is the one Sharon leads, the Likud:
Likud - 27.8% UTJ - 18.1% Shas - 12.6% Labor - 9% Shinui - 6.9% NRP - 6.5% National Union - 5.6% Meretz - 4.8% Herut - 2.5% Yisrael b'Aliyah - 1.9% Ale Yarok - 0.8% One Nation - 0.8%
Likud - 27.8% UTJ - 18.1% Shas - 12.6% Labor - 9% Shinui - 6.9% NRP - 6.5% National Union - 5.6% Meretz - 4.8% Herut - 2.5% Yisrael b'Aliyah - 1.9% Ale Yarok - 0.8% One Nation - 0.8%
Amram Mitzna voting in Haifa.
Even in Haifa, home city of Labor Party's leader Mitzna, his
party fails to end in first place:
Likud - 28.2% Labor - 22.3% Shinui - 16.4% National Union - 6.1% Meretz - 5.4% Yisrael b'Aliyah - 3.6% Shas - 2.9% NRP - 2.8% Hadash - 2.4% Balad - 2.2% UTJ - 2.0% One Nation - 1.8%
Likud - 28.2% Labor - 22.3% Shinui - 16.4% National Union - 6.1% Meretz - 5.4% Yisrael b'Aliyah - 3.6% Shas - 2.9% NRP - 2.8% Hadash - 2.4% Balad - 2.2% UTJ - 2.0% One Nation - 1.8%
Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef voting in Jerusalem
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Shinui leader Yosef Lapid voting in Tel Aviv.
The secularist Shinui Party obtains surprisingly good results
in Tel Aviv as elsewhere:
Likud - 28.4% Labor - 22.6% Shinui - 15.5% Meretz - 11.1% Shas - 7.2% National Union - 2.6% NRP - 2.5% Ale Yarok - 1.9% One Nation - 1.4% UTJ - 1.3% Yisrael b'Aliyah - 0.7% Hadash - 0.8%
Likud - 28.4% Labor - 22.6% Shinui - 15.5% Meretz - 11.1% Shas - 7.2% National Union - 2.6% NRP - 2.5% Ale Yarok - 1.9% One Nation - 1.4% UTJ - 1.3% Yisrael b'Aliyah - 0.7% Hadash - 0.8%
Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi casting his ballot in Taibeh.
Labor veterans Shimon Peres and Benjamin Ben-Eliezer
watching party leader Amram Mitzna conceding defeat
to Ariel Sharon late in the night..
Shinui leader Yosef Lapid acknowledging his supporters
at the party election headquarters in Tel Aviv late in the night.
Labor leader Amram Mitzna consoling MK Eitan Cabel late in the night,
as party secretary Ophir Pines-Paz looks on glumly.
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Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon celebrating the
Likud victory at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv late in the night.