Israel 2018 municipal elections Oct 30 and Nov 13

[danny]

After 30% counted:
Lion: 30.4%
Berkovitch: 30.1%
Elkin: 19.8%
Deitsch: 19.4%

[danny]

There was a surprisingly large number of incumbents that lost tonight. Haifa was the biggest one, but also in a bunch of smaller cities.
In Tel Aviv Huldai managed to win yet again.

Jerusalem with close to final results:
Lion 33.3%
Berkovitch: 28.8%
Elkin: 19.8%
Deitsch: 17.2%

so going to a second round in two weeks.

[danny]

Jerusalem City Council final results:
Berkovitz - 7
Degel Hatorah - 6
Shas - 5
Agudat Israel - 3
Elkin's party - 2 (he will remain as an MK)
JH - 2
Far Right List - 2
Meretz - 1
Havilio - 1
Likud - 1 (lol)
Bnei Torah - 1

So basically the Haredi have 15\31. As Meretz won't sit with King and the far right, if Berkovitch wins he'll have to utilize at least one Haredi party.

The "far right list" is the Yishai Kahanist coalition and number 2 is Yishai's representative (and grandson of Ovadia Yosef), so it's really a 16/31 Haredi majority.

[danny]

Map of the first round in Jerusalem:



Light Blue= Lion plurality
Dark Blue= Lion majority
Yellow= Berkovitch plurality
Darker yellow= Berkovitch majority
Green= Deitsch
Orange= Elkin

[danny]

Lion strength map:


Berkovitch strength map:

[danny]

Finally, a dot map:



Lion=blue
Berkovitch=yellow
Deitsch=green
Elkin=orange
Salman=purple

[danny]

what's with the random Salman dots in East Jerusalem?

I assume people that went to vote for the Arab party and didn't care about mayor, and since Salman is the only one to have his name in Arabic on the ballot went for him.

[danny]

Did my part and voted Berkovitch, Particularly happy to vote against Lion and his endless bullsh**t spam. Also glad I don't live in one of those places in the US where it takes hours to vote, the whole process took a couple of minutes.

[danny]

51.5-48.5 for Berkovitch after 147K votes, and I wouldn't call things quickly in a city like Jerusalem with such disparate populations.

[danny]

51.2-48.8 for Berkovitch after 166K votes.

[danny]

50.5-49.5 for Berkovitch after 174K votes, closing quickly now.

[danny]

50.1-49.9 for Berkovitch after 181K votes.

[danny]

50.8-49.2 for Lion after 188K votes, Lion pulls ahead.

[danny]

51.5-48.5 for Lion after 210K votes, looking like a likely Lion win.

[danny]

The final results:
Lion: 112,744 votes 50.85%
Berkovitch: 108,979 votes 49.15%

So close, but now we're stuck with the terrible Lion, who was the worst of the 4 candidates.