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BATAM, Riau Islands: Incumbent Batam Mayor Ahmad Dahlan and incumbent Karimun Regent Nurdin Basirun are leading in their respective vote counts from Wednesday’s regional elections
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ATAM, Riau Islands: Incumbent Batam Mayor Ahmad Dahlan and incumbent Karimun Regent Nurdin Basirun are leading in their respective vote counts from Wednesday’s regional elections.
According to the preliminary count by the Batam district election committee, Ahmad Dahlan and Rudi received 84,248 votes (31 percent), followed by Ria Saptarika and Zainal Abidin with 68,850 votes, Amir Hakim Siregar and Syamsul Bahrum with 59,397 votes, Nada Soraya and Nuryanto with 38,460 votes and Aripin Nasir and Irwansyah with 17,740 votes.
Batam has 667,082 registered voters and 1,788 election sites spread throughout Batam and its surrounding islands.
The final results will be announced next week.
In Karimun regency, the incumbent Nurdin Basirun and his running mate Rafiq garnered 81,956 votes or 92 percent of the vote, while Syamsuardi and Syuryaminsyah received 6,954 votes, according to the Karimun Regional Election Committee. — JP
