HUBUNGAN PERSEPSI KINERJA PEMERINTAHAN DENGAN KETERPILIHAN CALON PASANGAN PETAHANA DI PILKADA SALATIGA 2017

Abstract

The 2017 Major Election of Salatiga concluded that the number of earned votes for current
Major and Vice-Major Yulianto – Muhammad Haris (Yaris) surpass the earned votes for Agus Rudianto –
Dance Palit Ishak (Rudal). As the incumbent, Yaris were much favored politically. Strategic incumbent
variable is a chance to convince public over their government performance. The level of public
satisfaction over the performance of Major Yulianto could be the main modal to build personal political
variable such as popularity, acceptability and electability.
This Research use survey data that conducted by the researcher while the 2017 Major Election of
Salatiga is on process. The survey data then analyzed using determination approach with the result of the
2017 Major Election of Salatiga that being held on 15 February 2017. Aspect of the method used in this
survey are using sample frame of Permanent voters list (DPT). The technique used to get the sample are
cuplikan random sampling based on the survey location. The survey conduected over 96 TLS with 768
reponden. This survey has 3,5% margin error with significance level of 95%.
Yaris perceived to have good governing performance of 77%. This incumbent win the election
with 50,5% earned votes. At the unit level data analysis, 23 kelurahan indicates the distribution are
varies. Although there is a relation between good governing performance and the incumbent to be
elected, there are many other variable that affect the result.
Key word: local election, Salatiga, incumbent, performance,political personal