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Quick count shows incumbent candidate pair leading Cilacap election
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Voting day: Polling station officials in Panisihan village, Maosa district, Cilacap, Central Java, count ballots on Feb. 15. (JP/Agus Maryono)
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ncumbent candidates Tatto Pamuji-Syamsul have declared victory in the regent election in Cilacap, Central Java, securing 57 percent of the vote.
Supported by the Democratic Party, the National Awakening Party (PKB), the Golkar Party and the National Mandate Party (PAN), Tatto-Syamsul secured 439,515 votes from a total of 777,729 votes considered valid on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the two other candidate pairs, Tofik-Faiqoh and Fran Lukman-Bambang, received 213,268 votes, or 27 percent, and 124,946 votes, or 16 percent, respectively.
“I’m grateful for this victory. We will not be drawn into any euphoria. We will immediately continue with our work,” Tatto told journalists on Thursday.
He said poor road access, natural disaster mitigation and the economic improvement of rural people would be prioritized during his leadership over the next five years.
Cilacap General Elections Commission official Aniroh said the quick count had been completed. “However, we will still conduct a manual vote, starting from the district polling committee [PPK] level through to the regency level,” she told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
The manual vote count will be conducted from Feb. 16 to Feb. 24, she added. (ebf)
