TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Preliminary results of quick counts carried out by pollsters Cyrus Network and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) indicated the Jokowi-Kalla ticket would likely win the presidential election held on Wednesday, July 9, 2014.
According to the quick counts, which involved some 2,000 polling stations in 33 provinces, presidential hopeful Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his running-mate Jusuf Kalla are ahead in the election with 45.7 percent, followed by Prabowo-Hatta with 42.15 percent of the total vote.
"I think that from the data, we can conclude that Jokowi-JK is likely to win this presidential election," said CSIS researcher Phillips J Vermonte while showing CSIS' poll results at his office.
"The main battle takes place in West and East Java," he said. The Jokowi-JK ticket leads in Jakarta, Central Java, East Java, Borneo, and several other areas. The Prabowo-Hatta pair, on the other hand, prevails in Banten, West Java, and Sumatra.
NURUL MAHMUDAH