Parties rely on reports from their members’ direct observations at polling stations and quick count results released by pollsters. Although no pollsters have released specific quick counts for the DPRD level, parties’ members look into quick counts for the House of Representatives in Jakarta’s electoral districts, which they believe reflect the votes for the DPRD.

Meanwhile, according to the official counts as of Wednesday morning, which collect data from 1,241 of the 29,063 polling stations across the capital, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) leads the race with 19.37 percent of the votes, followed by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) with 17.72 percent and the Gerindra Party with 14.94 percent.

Several credible pollsters such as Charta Politika and Indobarometer also put the three parties in that order, which is not very different compared to the previous election in 2014, when the two close allies trailed behind PDI-P. PDI-P secured 28 seats on the council, while Gerindra and PKS earned 15 and 11 seats, respectively.

The emergence of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), which according to the pollsters is the fourth most voted-for party in Jakarta on the House level in this year’s elections and which has pledged to become a “constructive opposition” to the administration of Governor Anies Baswedan, would add strength to the opposition coalition in the DPRD amid reports of a crack in the PKS-Gerindra coalition.

The two parties engaged in a prolonged tug of war last year while selecting candidates to replace former deputy governor Sandiaga Uno, who resigned to run in the presidential election with Gerindra chairman Prabowo Subianto.

Gerindra has been accused of stonewalling over the nomination of PKS members to be proposed to the DPRD to replace Sandiaga until the presidential election was over. The parties in March submitted Agung Yulianto and Ahmad Syaikhu as candidates for the next Jakarta deputy governor, roughly eight months since the post went vacant.

The Gerindra faction chairman on council, Syarif, said a meeting with PKS would be held immediately after the election to evaluate their support for the governor.

“There will be new members [on council from Gerindra] who will bring in new ideas and perspectives. So we will evaluate everything,” he said, insisting that the party would keep backing the former education minister, at least until his gubernatorial term ends in 2022.

He was previously reported to have said the party might consider leaving the coalition.

“We’ll see what we can improve to help the governor and evaluate his performance at the same time,” he said.

Syarif acknowledged there was a possibility the party could retract its support for Anies in the next gubernatorial election. However: “That was not our main concern now,” he added.

Anies already faced strong opposition from City Council toward executing some of his campaign promises, including his plan to once again allow becak (three-wheeled pedicabs) to operate in several parts of the city, as promoted by the Jakarta Pedicab Drivers Union (Sebaja), which backed the governor during the election.

DPRD Speaker Prasetyo Edi Marsudi of PDI-P said that such a policy was inhumane and should have no place in Jakarta, as the drivers would face serious health risks from air pollution and exhaustion.

Meanwhile, PKS also denied there was trouble in the coalition.

“We have never said anything about [leaving the coalition],” said the head of PKS Jakarta’s sharia council, Abdurrahman Suhaimi. “There is no such discourse [happening] as we are currently waiting on the official results of the election.”

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