‘Post’ poll: Right loses 4 seats from Likud-Beytenu merger
11/02/2012 05:58
The united Likud-Yisrael Beytenu list will get 37 seats in the 19th Knesset,
five fewer than the two parties currently have, a poll conducted by Smith
Research for The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday.
One week after the
Likud and Yisrael Beytenu decided to merge their Knesset candidates lists, ahead
of the January 22 election, many of their voters have moved to other parties.
Four of their seats would go to Labor, which the poll says would grow from 13
seats in the present Knesset to a total of 22 in the next one.
The survey
of 500 respondents, representing a statistical sample of the adult Israeli
population, showed the migration of seats from Likud Beytenu to Labor brings the
Right bloc to 64 seats, four fewer than in a Smith/Jerusalem Post poll from
mid-October.
The new poll had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage
points.