In The Meantime, There Are 87 Regions That Sue The Results Of The 2020 Regional Elections At The MK

JAKARTA - The General Election Commission (KPU) commissioner Hasyim Asyari said, for the time being, the vote count results in 87 electoral districts in the 2020 Pilkada Simultaneously were being challenged at the Constitutional Court (MK).

Meanwhile, the total regions that will hold simultaneous regional head elections in 2020 are 270 regions, with details of 9 provinces, 224 regencies, and 37 cities.

In this case, the KPU as the respondent in the petition for judicial review of election results dispute (PHP) at the constitutional court.

"The number of PHP applications in the gubernatorial election is 1 region, namely Bengkulu, there are 77 regent elections, and 9 mayoral elections," Hasyim told reporters, Monday, December 21.

The province with the most contested regional vote count results was North Sumatra with 10 districts / cities. Furthermore, Papua and North Maluku with seven applications for the election of regents and / or mayors each.

Then, Lampung has 6 requests to dispute the election results. Gorontalo and Papua each have 5 requests. Southeast Sulawesi, NTT, and South Sumatra each with 4 requests.

Then, Maluku, Southeast Sulawesi, Central Java, West Java, Bengkulu, Riau, West Sumatra have 3 requests each.

South Sulawesi, North Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Riau Islands each have 2 requests.

Furthermore, Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, Banten and Jambi each had 2 requests.

"Disputes over the election results were submitted from Wednesday, December 16 to Sunday, December 20, 2020," said Hashim.

Furthermore, most applications submitted by one of the losing regional head candidate pairs do not agree with the vote count results of the local regency / municipality or provincial KPU.

In addition, there are two applications for the 2020 Pilkada dispute submitted by residents in the electoral district with a single candidate pair, in which a single candidate won the election against an empty box.

"Two requests for dispute over the election results in regions with single candidate pairs are in Ogan Komering Ulu Regency and Raja Ampat Regency," said Hasyim.