Election poll: Main political blocs neck and neck
Both Blue and White and Likud see a small drop in seats, while Labor and United Torah Judaism rally in first survey of Israeli electorate since parties closed their lists of candidates.
Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid's Blue and White party has the edge in a tight race with Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud ahead of the April 9 Knesset elections, according to the first poll of the Israeli electorate taken since the parties closed their candidate lists.
The survey was conducted by Mina Tzemach and Mano Geva of the Migdam research institute in cooperation with the iPanel online survey company.
The poll shows that Blue and White leading Likud by six seats, although both parties are one seat down compared to last week.
Previous polls released in the run-up to the closure of the party lists put Blue and White received 36 Knesset seats, with Likud on 30. In the new poll, each of the two leading parties loses one seat, while Labor and United Torah Judaism see their tally rise.
The overall distribution between the central blocs remains unchanged, however. The right-wing and the center-left blocs each have 48 seats, while the ultra-Orthodox and the Arab parties each have 12.
The survey was conducted among 500 respondents with a representative sample of the overall Israeli population aged 18 and over. The maximum sampling error in the survey is 4.4%.
