Polstat Survey: Prabowo-Gibran Electability Reaches 43.5 Percent

Paslon capres-cawapres Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka. (Instagram @prabowo)a

JAKARTA - The Political Statistics survey institute released the latest survey related to the electability of three pairs of presidential candidates (candidates) and vice presidential candidates (cawapres) who will fight in the 2024 presidential election.

The Polstat survey shows that pair number 2 Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka is superior to other couples with a figure of 43.5 percent.

Meanwhile, the pair Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD 27.2 percent and Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar (AMIN) 25.8 percent.

"The results of the Indonesian Polstat survey indicate that if the presidential election is currently being held, the largest part of voters or 43.5 percent of respondents affirm their choice in Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka," said Senior Polstat researcher Apna Permana, in a survey presentation, Friday, December 8.

"Then 27.2 percent of respondents stated that they would vote for candidate pair Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, followed by Anies-Cak Imin who was chosen by 25.8 percent of respondents," he continued.

Meanwhile, respondents who answered they did not know or did not answer were 3.5 percent.

The results of the Indonesian Police survey also emphasized that the majority of the public who do not believe in negative issues against President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and his family tend to direct their choice to the Prabowo-Gibran pair.

"For example, 69.8 percent of the public who do not take the issue of dynastic politics seriously imposes their choice on Prabowo-Gibran. Then 74.3 percent of the public who do not believe in the issue of the TNI-POLRI's neutrality also directs their choice to Prabowo-Gibran," said Apna.

The Polstat survey was conducted in the period 27 November-5 December 2023 against 1,200 respondents. The survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews by trained personnel.

The survey population is a citizen who already has the right to vote, which is 17 years old and equipped with media monitoring analysis to measure public sentiment towards presidential and political candidates. The selection of samples was carried out through the multistage random sampling method. The survey margin of error is up to 2.8 percent with a confidence level of 95 percent.