2013 Makassar mayoral election

A mayoral election was held in the city of Makassar on 23 September 2013. The election was the second direct mayoral election in the city's history.

2013 Makassar mayoral election

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Turnout	59.49%[1]
Candidate Danny Pomanto Irman Yasin Limpo Tamsil Linrung Party Demokrat PAN PKS Running mate Syamsu Rizal Busrah Abdullah Das'ad Latief Popular vote 182,424 114,032 93,868 Percentage 31.17% 19.48% 16.04%
Mayor before election Ilham Arief Sirajuddin Demokrat Elected mayor Danny Pomanto Demokrat

10 pairs contested the elections, including 4 independent tickets. With the incumbent barred from reelection after 2 terms, nearly 600,000 of the city's residents voted in the elections. Demokrat-backed architect Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto secured a victory with a plurality of the votes.

Background

Makassar's first direct mayoral election was held in 2008, with incumbent Ilham Arief Sirajuddin winning his second term.^[2] The city's province, South Sulawesi, has been described by national and international observers alike as being rife with dynastic politics.^[3][4]

Initially, the election was planned for February 2014, but it was moved to 2013 in order to prevent interference with the national legislative and presidential elections.^[5] There were 983,900 eligible voters.^[1]

Candidates

Ballot number[6]	Candidate	Running mate	Supporting parties[7]
1	Adil Patu	Isradi Zaenal	Gerindra PDK
2	Supomo Guntur	Kadir Halid	PDI-P Golkar
3	Rusdin Abdullah	M Idris Patarai	Independent
4	Herman Handoko	Abd Latif Bafadhal	Independent
5	Erwin Kallo	Hasbi Ali	Independent
6	Tamsil Linrung	Das'ad Latif	PKS Hanura PBR
7	Sitti Muhyina	M Syaiful Shaleh	Independent
8	Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto	Syamsu Rizal	Demokrat PBB
9	Irman Yasin Limpo	Busrah Abdullah	Independent
10	Apiati K Amin Syam	Zulkifli Gani Otto	21 non-DPR parties

Results

No	Candidate - Running mate	Votes	%
1	Adil-Isradi	14,556	2.49
2	Supomo-Kadir	84,153	14.38
3	Rusdin-Pattarai	23,846	4.07
4	Herman-Latif	2,930	0.50
5	Erwin-Hasbi	5,489	0.94
6	Tamsil-Das'ad	93,868	16.04
7	Muhyina-Syaful	56,607	9.67
8	Pomanto-Rizal	182,484	31.18
9	Limpo-Abdullah	114,032	19.48
10	Apiaty-Zulkifli	7,326	1.25
Total votes		585,291	100%
Turnout[1]		59.49%

7,008 votes out of the 592,299 cast were invalid. During the results announcement, witnesses of the Supomo-Kadir pair walked out, claiming that the election had been a fraudulent one.^[8] Candidate pairs with ballot numbers 2, 7 and 9 sued Pomanto-Rizal in the Constitutional Court, but their demands to disqualify the winner and repeat voting were rejected in full.^[9]

Pomanto and Rizal were officially sworn in on 8 May 2014.^[10]