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zahavasdad
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The elections in Israel are different than american. Israel is a Parlimentary proportional representation

In the us congress is divided into districts and you vote for individual house members

In Israel you vote for a party and the perctage of the vote that party gets is how many seats

There are 120 seats in the Kenesset, so if Likud get 33% of the vote they get 40 seats. There is a cutoff of about 3%, if you get less , you get none.

UTJ getting 6 seats means they got 5% of the vote