Populi Center Surveys: PDIP, PKS And Gerindra Most Voted In The DKI Jakarta Pileg

Illustration. The HI Roundabout became one of the landscapes of DKI Jakarta on Monday, September 14, 2019. (ANTARA-Sigid K)

The Populi Center released the results of a survey on the electability of political parties in the DKI Jakarta Legislative Election (Pileg). As a result, PDIP ranks highest in party electability in the capital city.

Populi Center researcher, Dimas Ramadan said, the highest number of PDIP electability was from eight parties which received a percentage of electability above 4 percent.

"If the legislative election is held today, there are 8 parties that will get a percentage of 4 percent electability or more, namely PDIP with 18.3 percent," Dimas said in his presentation, quoted Thursday, October 20.

After PDIP, the highest electability of political parties was followed by PKS by 14.7 percent, Gerindra 12.8 percent, Democrats 8.7 percent, Golkar 6.7 percent, Nasdem 5.2 percent, PKB 5 percent, and PPP 4.7 percent.

"Other parties get a percentage below 3 percent. As for 16.4 percent of respondents answered they did not know or did not answer," said Dimas.

On that occasion, Populi Center also released the results of a survey on the electability of political figures in the Jakarta gubernatorial election market.

Dimas said this finding was based on the choice of respondents in a poll with closed questions that presented 24 figures.

"Regarding the leadership period of DKI Jakarta, Ridwan Kamil's name has the highest support to advance as a candidate for the Governor of DKI Jakarta in 2024 with 69.7 percent (electability)," said Dimas.

In second place, the name Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno appeared with an electability value of 67.7 percent, Anies Baswedan 66.2 percent, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono 55 percent, Najwa Shihab 45.7 percent, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) 42.5 percent, Tri Rismaharini 40.2 percent, and several other names with support below 40 percent.

For information, this survey was conducted using the Populi Center survey application on October 9-16, 2022. The survey involved 600 respondents from the population of Jakarta residents spread across 60 urban villages.

The survey margin of error with the sample size is estimated at around 4 percent at a 95 percent confidence level in the assumption of multistage random sampling.