SMRC: West Java Gubernatorial Election Survey, Ridwan Kamil Shows Highest Electability

The West Java gubernatorial election (Pilgub) will be held in 2018. Long before that, the Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) survey institute conducted research on the electability of potential candidates for the election.

The survey employed semi-open-ended questions or simulations with 28 potential gubernatorial candidates. The results showed that 31.4 percent of respondents chose Ridwan Kamil as Governor of West Java. Deddy Mizwar followed in second place with a considerably lower percentage of 13.0 percent, and Dedi Mulyadi was third with 12.3 percent. Furthermore, Dede Yusuf received 8.3 percent of the vote, and the renowned preacher Abdullah Gymnastiar (Aa Gym) obtained 7.5 percent.

In this survey, Ridwan Kamil led across all questioning methods and various candidate simulations. The SMRC survey was conducted from June 17 to 21, 2017, involving 820 respondents spread across West Java. The sample was selected using multistage random sampling. The margin of error used was +/- 3.5 percent at a 95 percent confidence interval.