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Palestine’s local vote really represent On April 25, Palestinians will vote in local elections to choose representatives to municipal and village councils for four-year terms. These elections come after years of repeated postponements
national elections since 2006, keeping the Fatah-ruled PA in power in the West Bank more than 17 years after its initial mandate expired. Odeh, who will be stepping down, doesn’t believe there
2006, in municipal elections on Saturday. In [Deir el-Balah](/features/2026/4/25/joy-and-desire-for-change-as-gazas-deir-el-balah-holds-elections), turnout was [23 percent](/news/2026/4/26/abbas-loyalists-sweep-palestine-elections-in-occupied-west-bank-gaza-city), with the commission attributing the low figure to an outdated civil registry reflecting the scale of displacement and death
since 2006. Most electoral lists are backed by President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement or independent candidates, with no official participation from Hamas, which controls parts of [Gaza](/news/2026/3/21/tears-and-grief-mothers-day-in-gaza-marked-by-mourning). ## Linking the occupied West Bank
Palestine Liberation Organization, which leads the Palestinian Authority. The program calls for the recognition of Israel and renouncing armed struggle, effectively sidelining Hamas and other factions. Election results, then, were dominated by independents and Fatah
elections. He was later appointed as national security minister and given control of Israel’s Border Police division in the occupied West Bank. A settler in Kiryat Arba, one of the most radical settlements