SMRC Survey: PDIP Voters Vote More For Ganjar Than Puan For The 2024 Presidential Election

JAKARTA - The SMRC Survey Institute released a poll on political figures who are included in the presidential candidate market in the 2024 General Election. One of the surveys is about the figures most voted for by party constituents.

The party that has the highest electability is PDIP which is also the winner of the 2019 election. Therefore, SMRC Executive Director Sirojudin Abbas views that the direction of this party's mass support for presidential candidates is important to observe.

"We see that the direction of the mass support of PDIP voters will greatly determine the prospects for the victory of the presidential candidates," said Sirojudin in a virtual survey presentation, Thursday, April 7.

Then, what is the direction of the PDIP mass's choice of presidential candidates for the 2024 election? As a result, Ganjar Pranowo is the figure most supported by the PDIP voters to become president with 34.2 percent.

Followed by Prabowo Subianto 11.1 percent, Anies Baswedan 7.2 percent. Meanwhile, Puan Maharani, who is the daughter of the PDIP General Chair, only got 1.9 percent of the electability.

In the last year, continued Abbas, the PDIP's mass support for Ganjar increased from 20.1 percent in March 2021 to 34.2 percent in March 2022," said Abbas.

"However, in the last 3 months, PDIP mass support for Ganjar has tended to stagnate from 36.7 percent in December 2021 to 34.2 percent in March 2022," he said.

Meanwhile, the trend of mass support for PDIP voters for Puan Maharani in the past year has not changed much and remains minimal. That is, 1.3 percent in March 2021 and 1.9 percent in March 2022.

For information, this survey was conducted on March 13-20, 2022. The population of this survey is Indonesian citizens who have the right to vote in general elections, namely those who are 17 years old or older, or were married when the survey was conducted.

The survey was conducted using a multistage random sampling method using a base sample of 1,027 people. The survey's margin of error is estimated at 3.12 percent at the 95 percent confidence level.