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Majority of respondents trust preliminary vote tally, LSI survey finds
Official results of the presidential election are not due until March 20, but a majority of respondents in a recent opinion survey said they trusted the preliminary vote tally on General Elections Commission’s (KPU) tabulation platform Sirekap so far, amid reports of irregularities in its data.
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A local poll administrator (KPPS) takes a photo of vote tabulation forms during an election simulation on Feb. 7, 2024 in Indramayu, West Java. (Antara/Dedhez Anggara)
The official results of the presidential election are not due until March 20, but a majority of respondents in a recent opinion survey said they trusted the preliminary vote tally on the General Elections Commission’s (KPU) tabulation platform Sirekap so far, amid reports of irregularities in its data.
For the survey, pollster Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI) polled over 1,200 respondents of voting age nationwide by phone from Feb. 19 to 21, about a week after the simultaneous presidential and legislative elections and when reports of irregularities in Sirekap data began to surface.
The KPU has made it clear that the official winners would still be based on the KPU’s manual tabulation, rather than the vote count displayed on Sirekap. The poll body is manually tabulating all votes.
The LSI survey, released on Sunday, found that 35 percent of respondents said they knew about the preliminary vote tally on Sirekap and slightly over 75 percent of all respondents, regardless of whether they were aware of Sirekap or not, said they trusted the preliminary results.
At the time of the LSI survey, Sirekap showed that the Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka ticket was leading with over 55 percent of the vote, ahead of rivals Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD.
However, LSI executive director Djayadi Hanan noted that the respondents’ answers might be biased toward their preferred candidates.
Nearly 72 percent of respondents who trusted the preliminary results voted for Prabowo-Gibran, while the remaining 28 percent were voters of Anies-Muhaimin and Ganjar-Mahfud combined.
