Jakarta
Governor Joko Widodo has just more than 53 percent of the vote nationally, over
rival Prabowo Subianto who garnered just less than 47 percent — according to
the official results from 34 provinces
Jakarta Globe, Markus
Junianto Sihaloho, Robertus Wardhi & Yeremia Sukoyo, Jul 20,
2014
A KPU official, right, shows the official report documents with the election results to witnesses of both presidential candidates in Jakarta on July 20, 2014. (Antara Photo/Widodo S. Jusuf) |
Jakarta.
Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has won the
presidential election with just more than 53 percent of the vote, over rival
Prabowo Subianto who garnered just less than 47 percent — according to the
official results from 34 provinces compiled on Sunday.
A total of
33 provincial offices of the General Elections Commission (KPU) have completed
their individual tallies by early Sunday morning, with Jakarta finishing last —
declaring Joko the winner with 53.08 percent of the vote over Prabowo’s 46.92
percent.
Indonesia’s
newest and 34th province, North Kalimantan, had its votes counted by the KPU’s
East Kalimantan branch.
The final
individual tallies of the provinces have been made public in various media
reports, and the Jakarta Globe has compiled the data to produce its own recap
of the national tally — with the KPU only scheduled to finish and announce its
final national tally by Tuesday night.
On Sunday,
the KPU headquarters in Jakarta only began recapitulating data from 12
provinces.
The Jakarta
Globe’s national recap of the 33 provincial tallies lands Joko — who is also
known as Jokowi — and his running mate Jusuf Kalla the winners of the July 9
presidential election, collecting a total of 70.67 million votes (53.17
percent) compared with Prabowo’s 62.25 million votes (46.83 percent). There are
a total of 132.92 million valid votes — representing 70.6 percent of
Indonesia’s total eligible voters.
Consistent
with quick counts
The result
recap is consistent with the quick
counts by eight pollsters announced immediately after Indonesians cast their
votes on July 9 — which had put Joko in the lead with between 51 percent and 53
percent vote over the 47 percent to 49 percent in favor of Prabowo.
Four other
pollsters, citing their own quick counts, had declared Prabowo the winner with
lower margins.
The recap
also shows that Joko and his running mate, former vice president Jusuf Kalla,
win in 23 provinces, while Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa lead in 10 provinces.
Joko-Kalla thus lead by 8.4 million votes, or around 6.3 percent.
“Three
biggest contributors to Jokowi-JK’s votes are Central Java, East Java and West
Java,” Tjahjo Kumolo, the secretary general of Joko’s Indonesian Democratic
Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the head of his campaign team, said in Jakarta on
Sunday, citing the party’s own recap of the KPU provincial data — similar to
that of the Jakarta Globe.
Joko-Kalla
did record an overwhelming 66.65 percent vote in Central Java, which is a
traditional PDI-P stronghold, securing nearly 13 million votes, double that of
Prabowo.
Although
West Java was the third-largest contributor to Joko’s votes, he actually
suffered a big loss in Indonesia’s most populous province, securing 9.5 million
votes (40.22 percent) over Prabowo’s 14 million (59.78 percent).
Bali
(another PDI-P stronghold), Bangka-Belitung, South Sulawesi (Kalla’s hometown),
West Sulawesi, Papua and West Papua are among other provinces where Joko-Kalla
won by an overwhelming majority.
Prabowo-Hatta,
meanwhile, enjoyed an overwhelming majority in West Sumatra, West Nusa Tenggara
and Gorontalo.
Joko-Kalla
dominate votes in central and eastern Indonesia, and share wins with
Prabowo-Hatta on Sumatra island.
Overseas,
Joko-Kalla also lead with a total of 364,283 votes (53.74 percent) over
Prabowo-Hatta with 313,600 votes, or 46.26 percent.
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