The 2024 East Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election will be held on 27 November 2024 as part of nationwide local elections to elect the governor of East Nusa Tenggara for a five-year term. The previous election was held in 2018.
Electoral system
The election, like other local elections in 2024, follow 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]
Candidates
According to electoral regulations, in order to qualify for the election, candidates are required to secure support from a political party or a coalition of parties controlling 13 seats (20 percent of all seats) in the East Nusa Tenggara Regional House of Representatives (DPRD).[3] As no parties won 13 or more seats in the 2024 legislative election, coalitions must be formed in order to nominate a candidate.[4] However, following a Constitutional Court of Indonesia decision in August 2024, the political support required to nominate a candidate was lowered to between 6.5 and 10 percent of the popular vote.[5] Candidates may alternatively demonstrate support to run as an independent in form of photocopies of identity cards, which in East Nusa Tenggara's case corresponds to 340,721 copies.[6] No independent candidates registered with the General Elections Commission (KPU) by the set deadline.[7]
The previous governor, Viktor Laiskodat, is eligible to contest the election, but had publicly stated that he will not be seeking reelection.[8]
Potential
The following are individuals who have either been publicly mentioned as a potential candidate by a political party in the DPRD, publicly declared their candidacy with press coverage, or considered as a potential candidate by media outlets:
Emilia Julia Nomleni [id] (PDI-P), speaker of the East Nusa Tenggara DPRD and chairman of PDI-P's East Nusa Tenggara branch.[9]
Simon Petrus Kamlasi [id], Indonesian army general, former chief of staff of the East Nusa Tenggara military area.[13]
Declined
The following are individuals who have either been publicly mentioned as a candidate or considered so by media outlets, but publicly announced to not run for this election:
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