Populi Center Survey: Ridwan Kamil Most Voted To Be The Cagub Of DKI 2024

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil after attending the 21st Anniversary of Tasikmalaya City, in Tasikmalaya, Monday (17/10/2022). ANTARA/Feri Purnama

The Populi Center released the results of a survey regarding the electability of political figures to become candidates for the Governor of DKI Jakarta in the 2024 Simultaneous Elections. As a result, Ridwan Kamil's name was chosen the most. Populi Center researcher, Dimas Ramadan, said that the findings were 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 run as a candidate for the Governor of DKI Jakarta in 2024 with 69.7 percent (electability)," Dimas said in his presentation, quoted Thursday, October 20. 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. Ridwan Kamil's electability increased in a survey this month from a survey in February 2022. In February, Ridwan Kamil was in third place at 65.7 percent. Meanwhile, the electability of Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno and Anies Baswedan decreased in the last eight months. In February 2022, Sandiaga ranked first with an electability of 77.5 percent and Anies 77.3 percent. On that occasion, Populi Center also released the results of a survey on the electability of political parties in Jakarta. The findings of this survey show that there are 8 parties that get the same percentage of electability or above 4 percent. The eight parties are PDIP with 18.3 percent, followed by PKS 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. "For the option of other parties, get a percentage below 3 percent. The respondents who answered they did not know / did not answer by 16.4 percent," he explained. 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 ± 4 percent at a 95 percent confidence level in the multistage random sampling assumption.