Despite Tuesday's election ending with no clear winner on the national level, there was a clear victory for some parties in certain cities.
In Tel Aviv the center-left alliance Blue and White ran away with the vote – a plurality for 37% of the validly cast ballots – suggesting that the city would have preferred party chairman Benny Gantz as prime minister. Likud came in a distant second, grabbing only 22% of the Tel Avivian vote.
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This is hardly surprising, considering that the city is considered a bastion of the Left that has traditionally voted against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies.
The Democratic Union, a candidate list comprising former Labor officials and the left-wing Meretz, got 12% of the vote, while Labor came in fourth, with 6%.
With Tel Aviv having one of the smallest ultra-Orthodox populations in Israel, United Torah Judaism got only 1%.
In Jerusalem, which has a massive ultra-Orthodox community and is also a Likud stronghold, United Torah Judaism came in first with 23%, tying with the governing party Likud.
Shas, which caters mainly to traditional Sephardi Jews, got 16% of the vote in the capital. Blue and White, which came in first on the national level, came in fourth in Jerusalem, with only 11% of the vote being cast on the center-left list.
Yamina, a newly formed national-religious list catering to both Orthodox and secular Jews and has a strong base in Judea and Samaria, got 9% of the vote.
