Zulkifli wins Jambi election

Zulkifli wins Jambi election

JAMBI: A local poll organizer declared on Tuesday that running
mates Zulkifli Nurdin and Anthony Zeidra Abidin, nominated by the
National Mandate Party and Golkar Party, had officially won the
Jambi direct election for governor and deputy governor.

The victory was confirmed after the final manual vote counting
held by the Jambi General Elections Commission (KPU) showed that
Zulkifli and Anthony led the vote count with 995,792 votes or
some 80,03 percent of total votes in the election held on June
26. They were followed by pair Hasip Kalimuddin and Nasrun Arbain
nominated by the National Awakening Party and the United
Development Party with 165,825 votes and Usman Ermulan and Irsal
Yunus nominated by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle
(PDI-P) with 82,620 votes.

Zulkifli was the former Jambi governor whose tenure ended in
2004. -- JP