East Manggarai –
The white vote (golput) won the East Manggarai Regent Election (Pilbup). The number of abstainers in East Manggarai reached 72,538 voters, far exceeding the vote tally of the winner of the 2024 Pilbup who received 51,178 votes.
The high number of abstentions means that voter participation in the 2024 East Manggarai Pilbup is relatively low, only reaching 67 percent. The East Manggarai General Election Commission (KPU) revealed a number of reasons for low voter participation.
“(The reason is because) someone left the area, someone died, someone changed their domicile,” said the Head of the Technical Division of the East Manggarai General Election Commission (KPU), Konradus A Sandur.
Based on the minutes and certificates of the recapitulation of vote counting for the 2024 East Manggarai Pilbup, as many as 218,819 people were registered in the permanent voter list (DPT) and additional voter list (DPTb). In detail, the DPT was 217,102 voters and the DPTb was 1,717 voters. There are 146,281 voters who exercised their voting rights in the 2024 East Manggarai Regional Election.
It is known that the 2014 East Manggarai Regional Election was won by candidate pair (paslon) number 2, Agas Andreas-Tarsisius Sjukur (Akur package). Based on the results of the plenary meeting to recapitulate the vote count at the East Manggarai KPU level, the candidate pairs supported by the Gerindra Party, NasDem Party, PAN Party and PKB received 51,178 votes.
Duet Akur eliminated three rivals, namely candidate pair number 1 Cyprianus Habur-Lucius Modo (Harum) with 43,881 votes, candidate pair number 3 Selphyanus Tovin-Frumensius Fredrik Anam (Element) 40,841 votes, and candidate pair number 4 Yoseph Marto-Heremias Dupa (Merdu ) 7,729 votes.
There were 146,281 voters who exercised their voting rights in the 2024 Manggarai Pilbup. A total of 143,629 votes were valid and 2,652 votes were invalid.
(iws/iws)