SURABAYA - The Charta Politika Indonesia survey in the Surabaya Pilkada shows that the electability of candidate pairs Eri Cahyadi and Armuji is superior to around 10.5 percent with 51.2 percent. Meanwhile, Machfud Arifin-Mujiaman's competitor has an electability of 40.7 percent.

"There is a trend of increasing Eri-Armuji's electability from 41.9 percent (September survey result) to 51.2 percent (November survey result). Meanwhile Machfud-Mujiaman is stagnant 41.4 percent to 40.7 percent," said Executive Director Charta Politika. Indonesia Yunarto Wijaya in a statement quoted by Antara, Friday, December 4.

Meanwhile, respondents who had not yet decided on an answer also decreased. From 16.7 percent in the September survey to 8.1 percent in the November survey. This shows that residents have begun to make choices about their ideal leader for the City of Heroes.

Yunarto added that all candidates are well known by voters. Of the four names of candidates for mayor and deputy mayor who were contesting, all of them already had recognition rates above 80 percent.

"Only the name Mujiaman Sukirno still has an recognition rate of slightly below 80 percent," he said.

In terms of preferences, Eri and Armuji are most liked by the public more than Machfud-Mujiaman. The details, of the 88.8 percent recognition rate for Eri, 91.8 percent of them expressed their liking to the former head of the Surabaya City Development Planning Agency (Bappeko). As for the 82.8 percent of residents who know Armudji, 91 percent of them expressed their liking for the former chairman of the Surabaya DPRD.

Meanwhile, from the introduction of Machfud which amounted to 82.9 percent, as many as 86.9 percent of them liked the police retired. For Mujiaman, from the recognition rate of 72.3 percent, 86.1 percent said they liked it.

From the level of stability of choice, in general it has reached 75.8 percent. "Strong voters (strong voters) on the Eri-Armudji pair reached 85.5 percent, while Machfud-Mujiaman's strong voters reached 73.8 percent," he said.

This survey also captures the level of public satisfaction with the performance of the Surabaya City Government, namely 92.7 percent of respondents said they were satisfied. "Only about 5.5 percent of respondents expressed their dissatisfaction with the performance of the Surabaya City Government," said Yunarto.

Charta's latest survey was conducted on November 18-24, 2020 using the multistage random sampling method. The survey involved 1,200 respondents through face-to-face interviews and structured questionnaires. The margin of error reached approximately 2.83 percent.

The 2020 Surabaya Pilkada was attended by two candidate pairs. The pair Eri Cahyadi and Armuji were promoted by PDI Perjuangan and supported by PSI. In addition, they also get additional strength from six non-parliamentary political parties, namely the Bulan Bintang Party (PBB), the Hanura Party, the Berkarya Party, PKPI, and the Garuda Party.

The Machfud Arifin-Mujiaman pair are supported by a coalition of eight parties namely PKB, PPP, PAN, Golkar, Gerindra, PKS, Democrats and Nasdem Party and supported by a non-parliamentary party, namely the Perindo Party.


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