Despite the Pandemic, Voter Participation in Majene Reaches 88 Percent

Majene, Sulbarkita.com - General Election Commission Chairman Majene Muh. Arsalin Aras said that even in the conditions of the Covid 19 pandemic, voter participation in his area had increased significantly. In the 2020 Pilkada Simultaneously, voter participation reached around 88 percent.

"This exceeds the target for the 2015 Pilkada by around 86 percent and exceeds the target for this year's Pilkada, which is 77 percent," said Arsalin after the plenary meeting of recapitulation and vote counting at the Hall of the Grand Mosque of Ilaikal Mashir on Wednesday, December 16, 2020.

Arsalin detailed the total number of valid votes in the 2020 Pilkada as many as 100,960 votes. As many as 1,353 votes were invalid. So that the total number of votes j102,313.

As for the total votes acquired by the candidate pair number 01 Patma-Lukman, Arsalin continued, was 44,176 votes. Meanwhile, the votes acquired by candidate pair number 2 AST-ARIS were 56,784 votes.

"The recapitulation of the vote count results will later be used as the basis for determining the elected candidate pair for regent and deputy regent of Majene," he said.

Arsalin is grateful that the health protocol implemented not only increases voter participation, but also prevents the spread of Covid-19. The report he received was that no new clusters emerged after the Majene Pilkada. "It is hoped that in the next few days there will be no complaints from Covid-19, both election organizers and the public."

Muhammad Ashari