Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party has won a
surprise victory in Israel's election.
Exit
polls had forecast a dead heat but with almost all votes counted, results give
Likud a clear lead over its main rival, the centre-left Zionist Union.
The
outcome gives Mr Netanyahu a strong chance of forming a right-wing coalition
government.
It
puts the incumbent on course to clinch a fourth term and become Israel's
longest-serving prime minster.
The
latest tally gives Likud 30 seats in the 120-seat parliament, the Knesset, with
the Zionist Union on 24 seats.
Zionist
Union leader Yitzhak Herzog called Mr Netanyahu early on Wednesday to
congratulate him on the result and wished him "good luck".
"Nothing
has changed, we will keep fighting for a just society," he was quoted as
saying by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
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