Smith conducted a poll that was published by Globes on Sept 24 2014.
Current Knesset seats in [brackets]
25 [19] Likud
15 [12] Bayit Yehudi
14 [15] Labor
11 [19] Yesh Atid
10 [12] Yisrael Beitenu
09 [11] Shas
07 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
07 [06] Meretz
06 [–] Kachhlon
05 [04] Hadash
04 [06] Movement
04 [04] Ra’am-Ta’al
03 [03] Balad
00 [02] Kadima
72 [61] Right-Religious
48 [59] Center-Left-Arab
Note: This poll was conducted according to the old 2% threshold, instead of the new 3.25% threshold.
Additional Questions:
Who are the ministers that you are most pleased with this year?
19% Economy Minister Bennett, 16% Finance Minister Lapid, 11% Interior Minister Saar, 10% Foreign Minister Liberman, 7% Defense Minister Yaalon, all other ministers 5% or less, 45% didn’t pick any minister.
Knesset Jeremy Analysis: Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud once again finds itself at 25 seats. Economy Minister Bennett’s Bayit Yehudi is in second place with 15 seats. It should be noted that out of the nine polling companies Smith usually polls Bayit Yehudi the lowest. This is the first Smith poll that has Bayit Yehudi in second place by itself and not in a tie for second with Labor. Opposition Leader Herzog’s Labor is still ahead of Finance Minister Lapid’s Yesh Atid who has been gaining ground in last week or so. Foreign Minister Liberman’s Yisrael Beitenu finishes in fifth place in this poll.
According to this poll Saar is the third most popular minister & Likud’s most popular minister. There is no doubt that will have an impact of Likud’s numbers in the short term. Consistency is most likely the reason behind Minister Bennett’s number 1 ranking among ministers.
yeh, just as Jeremy pointed out his analyses, it is interesting that BY polls only at 15 but still second place (great thing!!). also interesting that Shas is higher than usually nowadays. and the third interesting thing about Smith polls, arab parties are polled higher than in other polls and meretz lower.