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Voter turnout reaches 53.5% by 6 p.m., the Central Elections Committee says.
That’s 3,418,531 voters, and 1.5 points more than the same time of day in the April race.
The figure comes from reports received at the CEC in Jerusalem from 8,509 polling stations, 78.9% of the total number of 10,543 stations nationwide, as well as a Central Bureau of Statistics survey of 512 representative stations.