JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The General Elections Commission (KPU) had up to Thursday evening counted 18,908,123 votes with the SBY-Boediono still leading the race, collecting 61.66 percent of the votes.
The Mega-Pro and JK-WIN pairs trailed behind with a vote collection of 28.57 percent and 9.77 percent respectively.
Some 176,367,056 eligible voters including 1,133,738 Indonesians overseas were expected to have voted for their presidential candidates in the country’s second direct presidential election on Wednesday.
Three presidential and vice presidential candidate pairs are competing in the election, namely former president Megawati Soekarnoputri and her running mate retired general Prabowo Subianto, incumbent president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Boediono, and incumbent vice president M Jusuf Kalla and retired general Wiranto.
