Nofriadi Kurnia Putra, M.A.

Nofriadi Kurnia Putra is a political researcher and consultant from Pariaman, West Sumatra, with nearly five years at national polling and political consulting firms. He has handled dozens of national and regional survey projects and electoral mapping for the 2024 legislative and presidential elections, and has advised campaign strategy for candidates for the national parliament (DPR RI) and for regional head offices.

His core expertise is data-driven electoral mapping and strategic issue mapping, from mapping territory and votes to designing vote-building programmes at village and polling-station level. He graduated in Government Studies from Universitas Brawijaya (2020) and holds a master’s degree from the Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada (2026).

His research interests cover political behaviour, political parties, electoral politics, candidate selection, elites and oligarchy, and patronage and clientelism; he has also worked on the crisis of representation, and on AI-driven disinformation and electoral integrity. At ASPIRASI he handles electoral mapping and strategy and develops questionnaire instruments and research variable frameworks.