In the survey published by Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI) on Sunday, Bobby of the Gerindra Party came out as the most electable candidate in the simulation of 23 prospective candidates for the November race, with 41.2 percent of respondents favoring him.

Bobby so far has secured early support from all four members of the Onward Indonesia Coalition (KIM), an electoral alliance in the February presidential election widely perceived as a rival to the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Bobby’s former party. They include Gerindra, the Golkar Party, which won the most seats in North Sumatra in February’s legislative election, the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the Democratic Party.

In the survey, Bobby was followed by former North Sumatra governor Edy Rahmayadi with 21.1 percent.

Edy, a retired military general, won the previous election in 2018 on the ticket of Gerindra and eight out of the 11 parties in the province, against PDI-P executive Djarot Syaiful Hidayat, who ran on the ticket of PDI-P and the one remaining party in the province.

Edy has expressed his intention to seek reelection in November but has not received any support from a political party so far.

In a distant third was another PDI-P politician and former Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama with 7.3 percent. He was followed by Musa “Ijeck” Rajekshah of Golkar. The electability ratings of the remaining potential names were only in the lower single digits, including those of Ahok’s colleagues, former North Tapanuli regent Nikson Nababan with 2.4 percent and Djarot with 0.6 percent.