This is an entry from: LIVE BLOG: Israeli Elections
13% of Israeli voters cast ballots in 1st 3 hours of poll
17 March 2015 11:41 GMT
About 13.75 percent of eligible Israeli voters cast ballots within the first three hours of Knesset elections, according to data released by the country's official electoral commission on Tuesday.
The data showed a 2.3-percent increase in voter turnout compared to the last poll two years ago.
In the 2013 election, only 11.4 percent of eligible voters had cast ballots as of 10am, although the figure had risen to 26 percent one hour later.
The electoral commission has put the number of eligible voters for the 20th Knesset vote stood at 5,881,696, who will cast ballots at 10,372 polling stations nationwide.
So far, according to the commission, around 794,000 people have voted.
