A poll for Channel 12 News gave the Likud Party 34 Knesset seats, compared to 33 for the Blue and White Party, while a Channel 11 poll put the margin at 35-34 in Likud's favor.
In both polls, the Likud-led rightwing religious bloc got 57 mandates, four shy of a majority. Yisrael Beytenu, which could tip the balance, would win seven seats. The Otzma Yehudit party scored 1.5 percent of the vote in the Channel 12 poll and 1.3 percent in the Channel 11 poll, not enough to enter the Knesset.