Mechanism for Organizing and Evaluation of Readiness for The Election of Village Head Candidates According to Law No. 6 Of 2014

Instances of single-candidate participation in village head elections give rise to diverse conjectures. A case in point is observed in the Karang Tengah district of Guntur village, where only one candidate is present. This research employs field research methods aimed at obtaining information and describing events that occur in the field according to the facts found in the field. The approach used by the researcher is qualitative descriptive. Through the examination of data, it can be inferred that regional regulation no. 5 of 2022, concerning the administration of village head elections, stipulates that the nomination process for village heads in Guntur village, Guntur district, adheres to the framework outlined in regional regulation no. 5 of 2019. Primary data, serving as the principal data source for this study, was obtained via interviews with the village head election committee and documentation about the implementation of the village head election. Conversely, secondary data concerning village head elections were sourced from literature, including books. Following data collection, analytical descriptive methodologies were employed to delineate the procedures associated with village head elections carried out in the field. The stages of planning, nomination, and voting in the 2023 village head election in Guntur village are commonly observed practices.