2024 Kediri mayoral election
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The 2024 Kediri mayoral election was held on 27 November 2024 as part of nationwide local elections to elect the mayor and vice mayor of Kediri, East Java for a five-year term. The previous election was held in 2018. Vinanda Prameswati, the Golkar candidate, won the election with 56% of the vote, becoming the youngest elected mayor in the 2024 local election cycle. Her sole opponent, Ferry Silviana Feronica of the National Mandate Party (PAN), received 43%.
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27 November 2024
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Electoral system
The election, like other local elections in 2024, followed the first-past-the-post system where the candidate with the most votes wins the election, even if they do not win a majority.[1] It is possible for a candidate to run uncontested, in which case the candidate is still required to win a majority of votes "against" an "empty box" option. Should the candidate fail to do so, the election will be repeated on a later date.[2]
On 19 September 2024, Kediri City's General Elections Commission (KPU) announced that there would be 222,265 eligible voters in the election, with 405 polling stations across the city.[3] The election's budget was Rp 29.8 billion (~USD 1.9 million), nearly double the cost of the previous election in 2018, due to an increase in payments to election workers.[4]
Candidates
The previously elected mayor Abdullah Abu Bakar had served two terms and was ineligible to run. He had resigned from his office in 2023 to run in the 2024 legislative election.[5]
One of the candidates, Vinanda Prameswati, is a 26-year old notarial law graduate of Airlangga University and deputy chairman of Kediri's Golkar branch with no prior government experience. She is the daughter of a provincial police official, and had led a local Kediri-based pro-Joko Widodo group. Her running mate, Qowimuddin Thoha, is headmaster of a pesantren in Kediri. The ticket was endorsed by a wide coalition of political parties, including Golkar, Demokrat, PKB, PDI-P, Gerindra, and Hanura.[6][7]
The other candidate, Ferry Silviana Feronica, is Abdullah Abu Bakar's wife. Her running mate, 28 year-old Regina Nadya Suwono, was formerly a PDI-P member of the Kediri City Council, the youngest city councillor in the 2019–2024 period. Ferry and Regina received the endorsements of NasDem Party and the National Mandate Party.[6]
Campaign
Results
| Candidate | Running mate | Candidate party | Votes | % | |
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| Vinanda Prameswati | Qowimuddin Thoha | Golkar | 98,205 | 56.83 | |
| Ferry Silviana Feronica | Regina Nadya Suwono | National Mandate Party | 74,615 | 43.17 | |
| Total | 172,820 | 100.00 | |||
| Valid votes | 172,820 | 96.78 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 5,756 | 3.22 | |||
| Total votes | 178,576 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 222,265 | 80.34 | |||
| Source: Kediri City KPU | |||||
Vinanda and Thoha won more votes in all of Kediri's three districts.[10] The results were made official on 9 January 2025,[11] with Vinanda and Thoha being sworn in on 20 February 2025.[12]