Poll: 42% of Likud voters weighing or have decided to back different party in fall |
Forty-two percent of Israelis who voted for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in the previous election are either considering or have decided to back a different party in the fall Knesset elections, according to a Channel 12 news poll broadcast Friday.
The other fifty-eight percent of Israelis who voted for Likud in the previous election said they will do the same at the ballot box, the survey said.
The poll showed 10% of those who backed Likud in 2022 will support the Together slate former prime minister Naftali Bennett formed with Opposition Leader Yair Lapid; 6% will vote for former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot’s centrist Yashar party; 4% will back Avigdor Liberman’s secular right-wing Yisrael Beytenu party; 3% will cast a ballot for far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party; 2% will vote for Yoaz Hendel’s right-wing Reservists party; 1% will support Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party; and 1% will cast a vote for Bezalel Smotrich’s far-right Religious Zionism party.
Eight percent of former Likud voters said they were unsure who they will vote for and 6% plan to sit out the election.
Among Likud voters who are either considering or have decided not to vote for Netanyahu’s party once again, 37% said it’s because of the failure to prevent Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack; 23% said it’s because of the legislation that the government is trying to pass granting blanket exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students; 14% said because of........