Ridwan and running mate Suswono convened in the evenings of Monday and Tuesday with campaigners and political parties behind their bid to discuss a strategy to win in a second round of voting.

"We are welcoming the second round of voting. All volunteers and mass organizations as well as the entire community of residents will work hand in hand to elect the [Ridwan-Suswono] pair,” campaign manager Ahmad Riza Patria said on Tuesday.

The meeting came after their main rival Pramono Anung of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) claimed victory in the November race, citing a provisional tally from the KPU’s Jakarta office and the party's own tallying of returns from polling stations across the city.

While the tiered vote tabulation is still underway and the KPU’s Jakarta office will release the results by Dec. 15 at the latest, quick count results from various pollsters indicate that Pramono, who ran alongside Rano Karno, is leading with a projected 49.4 to 50.1 percent of the vote.

The pair was followed by Ridwan and Suswono with around 40 percent, while the third pair, Dharma Pongrekun and running mate Kun Wardana who ran independently, lagged with around 10 percent.

None of the quick count results, however, gave a conclusive projection of the winner because of their margins of error.