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espite being Indonesia'€™s largest crude oil producer, no survey institution is conducting a quick count survey at the Riau gubernatorial race leading each candidate to claim early lead.

The Riau General Elections Commission (KPUD) will not publish a provisional result. It will officially announce the final result on Sept. 14.

The campaign team of Herman Abdullah-Agus Widayat claim the pair to have an early lead with 51.60 percent by grabbing the most votes in the cities of Pekanbaru and Dumai as well as Kampar regency.

Coming second were Annas Maamun-Arsyadjuliandi Rahman, endorsed by the Golkar Party, with 11.60 percent followed by Lukman Edy-Suryadi Khusaini (9.96 percent), Achmad-Masrul Kasmy (11.64 percent) and Jon Erizal-Mambang Mit (15.54 percent).

The result will change as many cities and regencies have yet to report their tallies.

The campaign team of Lukman and Suryadi also claim to lead the race with 37.99 percent based on an internal survey at 354 polling stations across Riau.

Herman-Agus were second with 18.42 percent followed by Annas-Arsyadjuliandi (18.33 percent), Achmad Masrul (12.99 percent) and Jon-Mambang (12.54 percent).

'€œWe are still monitoring the development of votes received by all candidates but we are optimistic that our calculation will not differ from the official results announced by the KPUD,'€ said secretary of the National Awakening Party'€™s (PKB) provincial executive board, Ade Agus Hartanto.

The PKB and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) support Lukman'€“Suryadi.

Antara news agency reported that Lukman, a former minister for disadvantaged regions, deplored the fact that Riau KPUD did not forge cooperation with survey institutions to conduct quick counts.

In other provinces, quick count surveys were organized by a number of surveyors and most of the results were close to the official final results.

However, the provincial executive board of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) found that Achmad and Masrul, who are endorsed by the Democratic Party, temporarily led the race with 31.3 percent.

Annas'€“Arsyadjuliandi were second with 23.1 percent followed by Jon-Mambang (17.8 percent), Herman-Agus (16.4 percent) and Lukman-Suryadi (11.4 percent).

The result was based on 24.4 percent of the total ballots cast.

Jon-Mambang campaign team, consists of PKS and the National Mandate Party (PAN), also reported that Achmad and Masrul to have the early lead with 31 percent from 23.8 percent of the total votes.

Annas and Arsyadjuliandi were second with 23 percent followed by Jon-Mambang (17 percent), Herman-Agus (16.6 percent) and Lukmand-Suryadi (11.04 percent).

In a number of polling stations (TPS), absenteeism was the clear winner. At TPS 35 and 25 on Jl. Bunga Raya, for example, Herman-Agus pair were defeated by the number of absentees. At TPS 35 the pair received 73 votes with 79 absentees while at TPS 25, the candidates got 93 votes with 130 absentees.

Almost all candidates cast their votes in Pekanbaru and won the most votes at their respective TPS.

Incumbent Vice Governor Mambang Mit, for example, won the most votes of 38 at TPS 01 in Suka Mulya sub-district, Sail district. '€œAlthough there are still shortcomings here and there, I am quite satisfied with the gubernatorial election. The shortcomings will not reduce the quality,'€ he said after casting his vote.

Annas voted in Rokan Hilir regency while Achmad in Rokan Hulu regency.

Jon did not cast his vote because he does not have a Riau ID card.