PPI proclaims end to national tally
PPI proclaims end to national tally
JAKARTA (JP): The 53 members of the National Elections
Committee (PPI) wrapped-up the 10-day national vote count of the
June 7 elections on Thursday.
Chairman of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Rudini said
poll results would be officially announced on July 21. Validation
of the results by the official Election Supervisory Committee is
scheduled to follow a few days after the announcement.
Airplane engine trouble delayed the departure of North
Sulawesi electoral officers to Jakarta on Wednesday, causing the
provinces' tabulated poll results to be the last ones counted and
verified at the PPI secretariat on Thursday.
In the final count, the Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) won in 12 provinces, while Golkar was
placed second, after securing support from 13 provinces.
The PPI recorded a total of 105,786,658 votes counted,
compared with 117,815,053 registered votes and 4,422,851 invalid
votes. The committee also recorded that 93.54 percent of
registered voters were able to exercise their voting rights.
The volatile Aceh province had the lowest participation with
69.98 percent, while the Maluku province recorded the highest
with 109.28 percent. The PPI is investigating the surplus votes
in Maluku.
Golkar won in Riau, Jambi, Irian Jaya, East Timor, West Nusa
Tenggara, Maluku, South Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara, Central
Sulawesi, West Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Southeast Sulawesi and
North Sulawesi.
PDI Perjuangan won in Bali, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Lampung,
Central and East Kalimantan, South Sumatra, Jakarta, North
Sumatra, Central Kalimantan, West Java and Bengkulu.
The United Development Party (PPP) and the National Awakening
Party (PKB) triumphed in Aceh and East Java respectively.
Calculations by The Jakarta Post, ahead of an announcement of
stembus akoord (vote-sharing) agreements among the 48 political
parties, put PDI Perjuangan in the lead. The party secured 154 of
the available 462 seats in the House of Representatives (DPR).
Golkar came second with 120 seats, while the National Awakening
Party (PKB), the United Development Party (PPP) and the National
Mandate Party (PAN) clinched 51, 39 and 35 seats, respectively.
Allocated seats for the DPR differ according to the quotient
per province. The smallest quotient is for the province of Irian
Jaya with 63,647 votes per seat, while the largest is for
Yogyakarta with 300,680 votes per seat.
With the limited eligible vote-sharing agreements, some 12
million votes will not be accommodated in the House.
Only two political party alliances have been judged eligible
to carry out vote-sharing agreements. The KPU is working on a
solution to accommodate the remaining votes.(imn)