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| Turnout | 66.72% ( 8.56pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2024 East Kalimantan gubernatorial election was held on 27 November 2024 as part of nationwide local elections to elect the governor and vice governor of East Kalimantan for a five-year term. The previous election was held in 2018. Former member of the House of Representatives, Rudy Mas'ud of Golkar, won the election with 55% of the vote. He defeated former Governor Isran Noor of the Democratic Party, who received 44%.
The election, like other local elections in 2024, follow the first-past-the-post system where the candidate with the most votes wins the election, even if they do not win a majority. [1] It is possible for a candidate to run uncontested, in which case the candidate is still required to win a majority of votes "against" an "empty box" option. Should the candidate fail to do so, the election will be repeated on a later date. [2]
According to electoral regulations, in order to qualify for the election, candidates were required to secure support from a political party or a coalition of parties controlling 11 seats (20 percent of all seats) in the East Kalimantan Regional House of Representatives (DPRD). [3] The Golkar party, which won 15 of 55 seats in the 2024 legislative election, is the only party eligible to nominate a candidate without forming a coalition with other parties. [4] However, following a Constitutional Court of Indonesia decision in August 2024, the political support required to nominate a candidate was lowered to between 6.5 and 10 percent of the popular vote. [5] Candidates may alternatively demonstrate support to run as an independent in form of photocopies of identity cards, which in East Kalimantan's case corresponds to 236,185 copies. [6] No independent candidates registered with the General Elections Commission (KPU) prior to the set deadline. [7]
The following are individuals who have either been publicly mentioned as a potential candidate by a political party in the DPRD, publicly declared their candidacy with press coverage, or considered as a potential candidate by media outlets:
Following the 2024 Indonesian legislative election, nine political parties are represented in the East Kalimantan DPRD: [4]
| Political parties | Seat count | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party of Functional Groups (Golkar) | 15 / 55 | ||
| Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) | 10 / 55 | ||
| Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) | 9 / 55 | ||
| National Awakening Party (PKB) | 6 / 55 | ||
| National Mandate Party (PAN) | 4 / 55 | ||
| Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) | 4 / 55 | ||
| NasDem Party | 3 / 55 | ||
| Democratic Party (Demokrat) | 2 / 55 | ||
| United Development Party (PPP) | 2 / 55 | ||
| Candidate | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rudy Mas'ud | Seno Aji | Golkar | 996,399 | 55.66 | |
| Isran Noor | Hadi Mulyadi | Democratic Party | 793,793 | 44.34 | |
| Total | 1,790,192 | 100.00 | |||
| Valid votes | 1,790,192 | 95.10 | |||
| Invalid votes | 92,199 | 4.90 | |||
| Total votes | 1,882,391 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,821,202 | 66.72 | |||
| Source: KPU Kalimantan Timur | |||||
