Israeli local elections, 2013

[danny]

Haneen Zuabis run in Nazareth ended up an epic fail. The race is currently incredibly close with only 21 votes between the top 2 both with 43.2%, but Zuabi only got 10.4%...

Who is the other candidate besides Zuabi and the incumbent? Will there be a run-off?

Run-offs are only if no candidate reaches 40%, so there will not be a run-off and someone will have to win this. The other candidate is Ali Salam, with his own new party.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Local elections in Israel do resemble African free elections at times

Would a list of similar occurrences in British local elections reassure you or depress you with regards to the universe in general?

[Famous Mortimer]

Looks like Ali Salam won Nazareth.

With a name like that, he must be Muslim, right?

So the Christians and Hadash have lost control of Nazareth for the first time since the 70s.

Albeit to a former Hadash member.

[danny]

Looks like Ali Salam won Nazareth.

With a name like that, he must be Muslim, right?

So the Christians and Hadash have lost control of Nazareth for the first time since the 70s.

Albeit to a former Hadash member.

I don't know but Nazareth is 70% Muslim so this was bound to happen eventually.

[Hnv1]

Well I'm in the central election committee and the votes are no where to be found, odd.  

Edit: the votes were found but what happened to the computer registry is still investigated

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Yes, please.

[Famous Mortimer]

Who's the guy who came in third in Tel Aviv?

[Hnv1]

Who's the guy who came in third in Tel Aviv?

Aaron Meduel representing 'city for us all' a party getting left activists (mainly Hadash) and poor south TLV residents together. They ran MK Dov Khanin from the communists in 2008 but they crashed this time around losing 2 council seats (now they hold 3)

[danny]

Who's the guy who came in third in Tel Aviv?

Aaron Meduel representing 'city for us all' a party getting left activists (mainly Hadash) and poor south TLV residents together. They ran MK Dov Khanin from the communists in 2008 but they crashed this time around losing 2 council seats (now they hold 3)

If I remember correctly from the election maps for the previous election, City for all support was more from left wingers and less from the south.

[Famous Mortimer]

Oh! Is he a Sephardic guy? Did his support correspond to any Sephardic areas? ARE there any Sephardic areas in Tel Aviv?

[Famous Mortimer]

Here's a poll from Tel Aviv:

Mayor:

Incumbent Ron Huldai (One Tel Aviv) 59%
Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) 26%
Aharon Madue (City for All) 1%
Reuven Lediansky (secularist, not sure of party) 1%
Sami Abu Shehadeh (Balad) 1%

City Council:

One Tel Aviv 6 seats
Meretz 6 seats
Labor Party 2 seats
City for All 2 seats

*brain fart*

I should have looked back at my old comments. The alternate spellings got me.

Also, he did much better than he polled at least.

[Famous Mortimer]

Don't know if he even made the final ballot but I found a party for Reuven Lediansky. He had his own party called Let Live but then it merged with the Green Movement (previously allied with Meimad and Tzipi Livni) to form a party called Green Unification.

[Famous Mortimer]

Using some tricks but can't seem to translate the results page. If either of you Israelis isn't too busy, I think at least a couple other people in addition to myself would be interested in seeing the full results of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Nazareth.

Herzliya would be interesting too, especially if there's party identifications, although I know most will be like "Herzliva is the Best" or some such.

[Hnv1]

Oh! Is he a Sephardic guy? Did his support correspond to any Sephardic areas? ARE there any Sephardic areas in Tel Aviv?

Some of the south neighbourhoods, yes he did better than polled but his entire campaign happened because Meretz and Hadash can't collaborate (and I prefer not to elaborate on this part).

Results in Tel Aviv (city council):
Meretz - 16.32% 6 council seats
1 Tel Aviv 13.9% 5 council seats (the mayor's list) - mainly old guard Labour bosses in TLV
Tel Aviv youngsters (Rov Ha'ir) 12.0% 4 council seats - centrist party for mainstream party goers 
Unified Haredi party 9.3% 3 council seats - as its name suggests
City for us all (Ir Lekolano) 6.11% 3 council seats - Hadash plus poor blocks
Senior Citizens party 5.96% 2 council seats
Likud Beitenu 3.97% 2 council seats
Watch out parents 3.83% 1 council seat - as its name suggest a party for young parents
Green movement 3.52% 1 council seat
Social justice 3.38% 1 council seat - another spin off of the 2011 protests mainly hailing from the south side)
South side 3.23% 1 council seat - another party for the poor areas
Safe Tel Aviv 2.83% 1 council seat - another southern party a bit more xenophobic
Yesh Atid 2.62% 1 council seat - utter disappointment for them (and an expensive one)

Didn't pass the bar - Labour, Da'am and other small parties

Jerusalem (couldn't find a good source but that's what I gathered):
Ashkenaz Haredi 24.34% 8 council seats
Shas 15.93% 5 council seats
Barkat's list 14.12% 5 council seats
Awakening 11.42% 4 council seats - a secular party
Jerusalemians 7.33% 2 council seats - pan secular party
Meretz-Labour 5.59% 2 council seats - joint left party
Unified Jerusalem 4.42% 2 council seats - radical right wing party
Jewish Home 4.12% 1 council seat
Sons of the bible (Bnei Torah) 3.32% 1 council seat - an Ashkenaz Haredi splinter party
Likud Beitenu 3.24% 1 council seats

Can't find the results in Nazareth, if you can retrieve them bring them over and I'll translate

[Famous Mortimer]

Has a winner even been declared in Nazareth yet? Yesterday on English Haaretz there was an article about a "power sharing deal" because it was so close but the link didn't go anywhere.

[danny]

Has a winner even been declared in Nazareth yet? Yesterday on English Haaretz there was an article about a "power sharing deal" because it was so close but the link didn't go anywhere.

Ali Salam was declared the winner.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Why was an official Labor list run in Tel Aviv when there's an unofficial one already?

[Hnv1]

Why was an official Labor list run in Tel Aviv when there's an unofficial one already?

The pro-Shelly camp wanted to run separately from capitalist Holdai, when the primaries were held the Herzog-Cabel-Margalit camp managed to put their and Holdai's people on the top 3 spots thus making the Labour list redundant.
The run was carried on although they knew they won't get in (the Shelly group were place from 4th spot onwards), at a certain point a faction of Labour in Tel Aviv declared its support of Horowitz.

When you can't understand why certain things happen in Labour how they do there is always one answer - power struggle.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ah, crazed factionalist craziness. Figures

[Famous Mortimer]

Run-offs today:

http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/38-municipalities-vote-in-mayoral-runoff-elections-330726

[danny]

Bumping this because there are two revotes today. One in Beit Shemesh, and the other in Nazareth.

[danny]

Polls are closed and turnout is up in both cities. Bet Shemesh went from 69.6% to 76% and Nazereth went from 70.3% to 83.6%.

[Famous Mortimer]

Wait, so who's been mayor of Nazareth all this time?

[danny]

Wait, so who's been mayor of Nazareth all this time?

The incumbent mayor Jaraisi from Hadash but he lost in today's election and will now be replaced. The mayor of Bet Shemesh on the other hand survived another close election and will remain the mayor.