The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) announced Friday its Legislative Election quick count result that placed incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party first.
In its press release LSI announce that the Democratic Party leads with 20.48 percent votes, leaving a close race between second place Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) with 14.33 percent and third place Golkar Party with 13.95 percent votes.
Falling behind the top three were the Prospereous Justice Party (PKS) with 7.85 percent votes, the National Mandate Party (PAN) 5.72 percent, the United Development Party (PPP) 5.24 percent, the National Awakening Party (PKB) 5.12 percent, the Indonesian Great Movement Party (Gerindra) 4.59 percent and the National Conscience Party (Hanura) with 3.78 percent votes.
“Only those nine party made throught the parliamentary threshold,” said LSI executive director Saiful Mujani.
The result fulfills previous prediction by a number of surveys that there would be only nine parties will get seats at the House of Representatives in Jakarta.
The rest of the the contesting parties, 38 in total (44 in Aceh including local parties), did not even pass the 2.5 percent parliamentary threshold and will not have legislators at the House or be able to compete in the 2014 polls.
Saiful said the result used data from 2096 polling stations, out of a total of more than 530,000 polling stations, across the nation. The were still data waiting to be send from several stations in Papua due to communication problem.
“But the random quality of these samples reach 99.57 percent, meaning it should reflect the real counting,” he said.
The samples were chosen through combination method of stratified cluster random sampling. LSI rated its margin of error at 0.9 percent. (dre)
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