2009 Indonesian presidential election

2009 Indonesian presidential election
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Registered176,367,056 (Increase 13.75%)
Turnout72.57% (Decrease 5.66pp)
 
Candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Megawati Sukarnoputri Jusuf Kalla
Party Demokrat PDI-P Golkar
Alliance Joint Secretariat Mega–Prabowo JK–Wiranto
Running mate Boediono Prabowo Subianto Wiranto
Popular vote 73,874,562 32,548,105 15,081,814
Percentage 60.80% 26.79% 12.41%
Results by province
President before election

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Demokrat

Elected President

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Demokrat

Presidential elections were held in Indonesia on 8 July 2009. The elections returned a president and vice president for the 2009–2014 term. Incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, elected with a 20% margin in the 2004 election, sought a second term against former President Megawati Sukarnoputri in a rematch of the 2004 election, as well as incumbent Vice President Jusuf Kalla. Securing a majority of the votes in a landslide victory in the first round, Yudhoyono was re-elected without the need to proceed to a second round.[1][2] Yudhoyono was officially declared the victor of the election on 23 July 2009, by the General Election Commission (KPU).[3] At the time of his re-election victory, Yudhoyono, with nearly 74 million votes in his favour, held the record for the highest number of votes for a single person in any democratic election in history, surpassing Barack Obama's total of 69.5 million votes in the 2008 United States presidential election.[4] His record was surpassed by his respective successors Joko Widodo who won more than 85 million votes in 2019 and Prabowo Subianto who won more than 96 million votes in 2024.

  1. ^ Yang, Lina (23 January 2009). "Indonesia's presidential election day set at July 8". Xinhua. Archived from the original on 27 January 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
  2. ^ "Indonesia's president re-elected: No wonder why with SBY". The Economist. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
  3. ^ Andra Wisnu (24 July 2009). "SBY officially declared winner". The Jakarta Post. p. 2.
  4. ^ "How Do Other Countries Elect Presidents Without An Electoral College? Pretty easily". The Washington Post. 20 December 2016.