indonesian legislative election indonesia held legislative elections april houses country national legislature included seats seats new final results popular vote tally showed ruling party new order era received largest number votes lost legislative election democratic_party newest parties participate elections received combined percent popular vote based final allocation seats democratic_party qualified submit candidates country direct presidential election later year election described complicated election history democracy background annual session added amendments constitution indonesia included amendments measures legislature beginning composed existing new seats directly elected called removal military legislature seats assembly appointed change amendment direct election president vice president major steps indonesia road democracy july president signed effect law outlining composition reorganized new composed representatives provinces indonesia totaling members revised constitution set membership electoral campaign phases registration parties registered human rights number reduced scrutiny newly created reduction parties stood legislative election largely attributed new election law allowed parties won percent seats percent seats provincial half provinces stand election parties met requirement remaining parties required merge new party campaign period parties candidates began march continued april split phases day silence parties delivered national indoors march meant encourage dialogue parties constituents events poorly attended conducted tracking survey showed voters knew vote candidates new aware existed candidates nominated political parties national provincial levels candidates stood seats candidates stood seats candidates elected open list system election results election results determined political parties eligible submit candidates indonesia direct presidential election held july parties received percent popular vote percent seats submit candidates parties meet criteria join parties meet criterion election day election day april relatively free major incidents irregularities minor violations included officials helping elderly voters cast submit ballots indonesian election officials reported killed delivering voting equipment australian parliamentary observer delegation organizations observing election grand total counting votes took month final results announced week later initially scheduled registered voters ballots percent submitted ballots considered valid declared invalid received number seats previously lost legislative election power fourteen participating parties refused election results allegations irregular vote counting seat allocation achieve proportional representation seat allocation conducted largest remainder method hare determine seats automatically secured individual parties remaining seats assigned electoral region allocated remaining political parties based rank order remaining votes total disputes brought decided june cases decisions affected final allocation seats provincial democratic_party lost seats pioneers party gained seat seat allocated reassigned resolution disputes sixteen parties received seat received order parties according votes received seats allocated arose special rule created address uneven population distribution java islands rule hare values provinces java average higher outer islands party require fewer votes automatically secure seat outside java example received votes pan received nearly seats half seats received party stronghold value higher contrast pan seats automatically secured analysis results showed ruling party new order era led speaker won largest number seats defeating president received votes parties thirty provinces results occurred declining popularity increase popularity support traditional stronghold declined performance medium small parties region despite winning largest share vote performance suffered greatest bombings terrorist group devastated island province economy considered islamic parties maintained rankings founded president chairman continued perform stronghold despite losing votes democratic_party finished second respectively voting patterns considered indonesian politics parties received percent votes capital city voting patterns based religion evident eastern provinces christianity based received percent votes christian dominant north seats overall likewise muslims likely vote regions religious conflict historically prevalent aftermath legislative election complicated indonesian history vote representatives national provincial levels factors indonesia electoral system unique systems world election described longest complicated election history democracy secured nation place world largest democracy prior election seat allocation system deemed complicated world news sources country seven political parties met criteria submit candidates july presidential election democratic_party pan party nominate candidates threw support pan newly elected members took oath office separate sessions october day later scheduled houses convened early morning october took oath office elected inaugural chairman votes run october following day elected speaker vote chairman elected days later won vote october carved province south form west 33rd province indonesia occurred elections represented legislative election
Indonesian legislative election, 2004