Talk:2026 Israeli legislative election

Requested move 27 October 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Doesn't look like there is any opposition to this move, so I'll WP:BEBOLD and move it now. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 14:30, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

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Next Israeli legislative election → 2026 Israeli legislative election – see previous talk page topic. Slomo666 (talk) 16:26, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

• Support move. This is the logical article title and is consistent with the title of similar articles. Do not leave a redirect from Next Israeli legislative election to the new title. The "next" election changes with time and redirects like this become problematic. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 23:26, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Support - I thought there was word the elections could be delayed given the war, but couldn't find any RS to that effect. My support is conditional on the lack of RS supporting that prospect. estar8806 (talk) ★ 23:47, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Question What is the minimum length of an election campaign in Israel ie if an election were called tomorrow, when is the earliest date it can be held? If it is theoretically possible (not likely, but theoretically possible) for an election to be held in 2025 then we can wait until the end of this year before renaming the article 2026 Israeli legislative election. If the earliest date an election could legally be held is after January 1, then we may as well rename the article now. Wellington Bay (talk) 00:05, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

As far as I am aware this would be three months, although I have not yet found any hard rules on this. (I can find the maximum length between the dissolution announcement and the elections, but while several sources state an approximate three month minimum, none give a legal reason for the exact number they use. An example: Anshel Pfeiffer says in the Haaretz podcast (roughly min 17): first of all, you can’t have immediate elections in Israel, unlike my home country Britain, where you can have a snap election in two weeks. In Israel, by law, you need at least 90 days after the dissolving of [the] Knesset for for an election campaign. So we’re not talking about this happening in, in, in the current calendar year.) regardless, it is extremely unlikely they can organise an election in the next 64 days. This is something that should be mentioned in the Timing section of the present article, but is not, likely for the same reason I have failed to come up with a satisfying rs. Slomo666 (talk) 00:43, 28 October 2025 (UTC) Slomo666 (talk) 00:43, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

The article is currently written about elections that are scheduled to be held in Israel by 27 October 2026. If by some extraordinary set of circumstances they hold an election before the end of 2025, there either needs to be a new article or this one needs to be completely rewritten. The title of this article should reflect its content, which is about the 2026 election. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 03:39, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Support per nom and Myceteae. Thanks, Glasspalace (talk | contribs) 00:42, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

• Support as it is too late to have an election in 2025 and there is a legal requirement for an election no later than October 2026 Wellington Bay (talk) 00:54, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Support - per given reasoning TeddyRoosevelt1912 (talk) 03:11, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Support - per nom Totalstgamer (talk) 16:15, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

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"Draft:Next Israeli legislative election" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Draft:Next Israeli legislative election has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 30 § Next Israeli election redirects until a consensus is reached. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 22:58, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

I would just like to inform everyone that a related redirect has been created in response to a talk page request on the related opinion polling page. Slomo666 (talk) 01:53, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Election background

I was trying to improve the background section of the article, and found that much of the information was organized under the political parties section. This could be problematic for the readers as major party developments that are relevant to the election and serve as important background information are missing in the section.

I first tried to address this through an edit but was later reverted on the basis that this information should be categorized under the political party section. Is there a way to keep this information under a political party section while also keeping the background information in one place?

@David O. Johnson, @Slomo666 For discussion, feel free to invite others TeddyRoosevelt1912 (talk) 06:05, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

My opinion, since you asked:

I do not see the purpose of a/the political parties section. In my view, it can be a subsection of the background section or its contents could be transferred to relevant (sub-)subsections of Background, Campaign, and Leadership elections. Or some other constellation of reorganising the current information. (I actually think the leadership elections section does not justify its own existence.) If there is so much information about one party that it will warrant its own lemma/subsection (not a level 4 subsection, but a level 2 subsection) then we may cross that bridge when we come to it. Information regarding, for instance, the joint list, the formation thereof and all other relevant developments should be together, as should the developments leading up to the joint participation of Bennet and the Yesh Atid party. Happy editing,

Slomo666 (talk) 16:26, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

To be clear, I think it makes no sense for the leadership election section, containing the elections within Yesh Atid, taking place in 2024, to be after the subsection of Background that currently discusses "opposition unity". (A term I find extremely ironic and out of place, but that is another discussion.) Slomo666 (talk) 16:29, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

@Slomo666 Thanks for your input, I looked back into past elections and they also had leadership elections. While I don't reject having them here in principle, I would agree it is somewhat odd to have it under a political parties section. The reason this election makes it weirder compared to past ones is simply the amount of relevant events that have happened before the election with new parties and all, and many happened after these leadership elections, so the sections as it stands right now doesn't quite read chronologically.

As for the term "opposition unity", I am open to other options like "Opposition cooperation" or something similar. The main point anyways is the efforts at bringing more unity, regardless of whether or not the opposition actually is united.

@David O. Johnson What do you think about transferring the leadership elections into a subsection under the Background section? That way the party developments are all in one place and serve as background information for the election. I know this is different from past arrangement, but the information does fit better as background information, especially since it is relevant to later political developments (ex: Gantz winning pushing out Eisenkot). TeddyRoosevelt1912 (talk) 04:26, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Parties in Infobox

I don't recall there being a 'infobox reflects current composition' rule. In several past elections we've reflected the number of seats current political alliances hold in the Knesset. It's the same reason the Democrats aren't listed as Labor. I'm not innately againist this standard but I don't think we've ever decided it exists. Totalstgamer (talk) 20:07, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

It just seems odd to me that Bennett 2026 would be listed in the infobox as having seats. I would support adding another note to the infobox similar to the Democrats.David O. Johnson (talk) 21:31, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Considering Bennet 2026 will not be in this election, I don't think this matters anymore. (am I misunderstanding the issue?) Either way, since The Democrats has the note, I would propose doing something similar with the joint list and "Together" (Bennett + Yesh Atid). We may have a small subsection in the body that these notes link to, rather than individual footnotes for each. Slomo666 (talk) 16:35, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

I think I was conflating this infobox with the infobox on the Knesset article; in any case, I've reverted my edit. FWIW, I agree with adding notes for Together and the Joint List. David O. Johnson (talk) 19:47, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Coming back to this discussion, what should we do about this? I think it is quite strange that New Hope is in the infobox all the way at the bottom, while it will not separately contest the elections. The same will be true (if the joint list goes through) in a lesser degree for the Joint List. Is there a way to basically group the parties in the table in the infobox so that they can be seen as one coalition/alliance/new party for the purposes of contesting elections, while still showing who "current seats" belong to? I think the current table is still quite messy and somewhat inconsistent. Slomo666 (talk) 15:04, 3 June 2026 (UTC)