Editing United Development Party (section)

=== 2009 legislative election ===
The party came sixth in the [[2009 Indonesian legislative election|2009 legislative election]] with 5.3 percent of the vote, winning 38 seats in the [[People's Representative Council]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mediacenter.kpu.go.id/berita/472-kpu-rubah-perolehan-kursi-parpol-di-dpr.html |website=Indonesian General Election Commission |title=KPU Ubah Perolehan Kursi Parpol di DPR (''KPU Changes Allocations of Parties' seats in the DPR'') |date=14 May 2009 |language=id |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006080451/http://mediacenter.kpu.go.id/berita/472-kpu-rubah-perolehan-kursi-parpol-di-dpr.html |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Throughout the election, the party obtained votes from the elderly Muslim men throughout rural and urban area, inside and outside of [[Java]].<ref>Hwang, Julie Chernov. (2014). “Patterns of normalization: Islamist parties in Indonesia”, in Quinn Mecham and Julie Chernov Hwang (Eds.), ''Islamist parties and political normalization in the Muslim world''. Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press. p.68. {{ISBN|9780812246056}}</ref>