Poll: Likud would win over twice as many seats as next biggest party in election

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud would cruise to victory in fresh Knesset elections and win more than twice the number of seats than the second place party, according to a Channel 10 news poll aired this evening.

At 31 seats, Likud was by far the top vote-getter in the survey, followed by Yair Lapid’s centerish Yesh Atid party at 15 seats. The Joint (Arab) List would win 13 seats, the poll says, followed by the Jewish Home at 12.

The Zionist Union, an opposition faction that currently has 24 seats, would plummet to just 11 seats. The survey says United Torah Judaism would win 8 seats, the left-wing Meretz 7, while the center-right Kulanu, right-wing Yisrael Beytenu, and an as-yet-to-be-named party headed by independent MK Orly Levy-Abekasis would all get 6 seats.

Rounding out the poll was the ultra-Orthodox Shas party at 5 seats.

If popular former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz were to run at the head of his own party, the polls says Likud would get 29 seats, Gantz 13, Joint List 13, Yesh Atid 12, Jewish Home 10, Zionist Union 8, UTJ 8, Kulanu 6, Meretz 6, Levy-Abekasis 5, Shas 5, and Yisrael Beytenu 5.

The poll also explored voting preferences if Ehud Barak, a former Labor prime minister, were to head the Zionist Union. The results were 31 seats for Likud, 15 for Yesh Atid, 14 for Zionist Union, 13 for Joint List, 11 for Jewish Home, 8 for UTJ, 6 for Levy-Abekasis, 6 for Meretz, 6 for Yisrael Beytenu, 5 for Kulanu, and 5 for Shas.