Banten Regional Elections: Despite Leading in 6 Regions, Rano Karno Trails

The gubernatorial candidate pair Rano Karno-Embay Mulya Syarief narrowly lost to their opponents Wahidin Halim-Andika Hazrumy in the 2017 Banten regional elections. Despite leading in six out of eight cities/regencies, the Rano-Embay pair only received 49.91 percent of the vote, while their rivals secured 50.09 percent.

Data from the General Election Commission shows that, with 41.4 percent of the data reported from 6,848 out of 16,540 polling stations (TPS), Rano-Embay were ahead in Cilegon, Serang, South Tangerang, Lebak, Pandeglang, and Tangerang. Wahidin-Andika won the remaining areas. Cilegon is the only area with 100 percent of the data reported, where the Rano-Embay pair garnered 103,963 votes.

The Banten regional elections involved 32.92 million registered voters, with 21.21 million casting their ballots, representing a 64.5 percent voter turnout. Valid votes totaled 20.49 million, with approximately 61,000 invalid votes.