KPU Has Validated Votes in 33 Provinces, Prabowo-Gibran Winning 76.8 Million Votes

Chairman of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy'ari (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The General Election Commission (KPU) has ratified the 2024 election votes in 33 provinces until the 19th day of the plenary meeting to recapitulate the national-level vote tally results held on Sunday, March 17 at 23.59 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (WIB).

The Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka pair won 76,888,902 votes in 33 provinces. Furthermore, Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar received 31,118,204 votes, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD received 23,461,344 votes.

KPU Chairman Hasyim Asy'ari explained that there were five remaining provinces that needed to be recapitulated at the national level. "Our agenda is only for Central Papua Province. Next, there is Papua, Mountain Papua, Southwest Papua. Then, Maluku, and West Java," said Hasyim at the KPU building, Jakarta, Sunday evening, quoted by ANTARA.

Apart from that, said Hasyim, there is a recapitulation of the results of the Kuala Lumpur re-voting (PSU) which needs to be discussed at the national level recapitulation plenary meeting.

"One more recapitulation of the Kuala Lumpur PSU results which we will summarize with the votes of all PPLN (overseas election committees), 128 PPLN, and then we add or add up the votes in Central Jakarta and South Jakarta as part of the DKI Jakarta II electoral district," he said.

Based on the plenary meeting to recapitulate the results of the vote count at the national level conducted by the KPU from Wednesday 28 February to Monday 4 March, the Prabowo-Gibran pair won 421,605 votes in 127 PPLN areas. Second place was Anies-Muhaimin with 120,085 votes, and third place was Ganjar-Mahfud who got 117,351 votes.

Meanwhile, based on the national recapitulation as of Sunday  at 23.59 WIB, the KPU has validated the vote results for the presidential election in 33 provinces at the national level.

The 33 provinces include the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Gorontalo, Central Kalimantan, Bali, Lampung, Bangka Belitung, West Kalimantan, South Sumatra, Central Java, DKI Jakarta and the Riau Islands.

Next, East Nusa Tenggara, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Banten, East Kalimantan, Southeast Sulawesi, East Java, West Sulawesi, Riau, West Papua and North Sulawesi.

Next, Bengkulu, West Sumatra, South Sulawesi, Aceh, West Nusa Tenggara, South Papua, Jambi, North Maluku, North Sumatra, Central Sulawesi and Central Papua.