PDI Perjuangan Leads Vote Count in 2019 General Election, Gerindra and Golkar Follow

PDI Perjuangan was the party with the most votes in the 2019 General Election (Pemilu).

Data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded that the party led by Megawati garnered 27.05 million valid national votes in the 2019 election. This amounted to 19.33% of the total 139.97 million valid national votes.

The next largest party was the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), which obtained 17.59 million votes (12.57%). This was followed by the Golkar Party with 17.23 million votes (12.31%).

Meanwhile, the Indonesian Justice and Unity Party (PKPI) had the fewest votes, with only 312,770 votes (0.22%). Following this was the Garuda Party with 702,540 votes (0.5%), and the Bulan Bintang Party with 1.1 million votes (0.79%).

Of the 16 national parties that contested the 2019 election, only 9 managed to enter parliament and place representatives in the DPR RI.

These nine parties are:

1. PDI Perjuangan: 27,053,961 votes
2. Gerindra: 17,594,839 votes
3. Golkar: 17,229,789 votes
4. PKB: 13,570,097 votes
5. Nasdem: 12,661,792 votes
6. PKS: 11,493,663 votes
7. Partai Demokrat: 10,876,507 votes
8. PAN: 9,572,623 votes
9. PPP: 6,323,147 votes

Meanwhile, the other 7 parties failed to enter parliament because they did not meet the minimum parliamentary threshold of 4%.

1. Perindo: 3,738,320 votes
2. Partai Berkarya: 2,929,495 votes
3. PSI: 2,651,361 votes
4. Partai Hanura: 2,161,507 votes
5. PBB: 1,099,848 votes
6. Partai Garuda: 702,536 votes
7. PKPI: 312,775 votes