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This essay seeks to discuss how patronage and clientelism being performed, developed and emphasized by political identity, which is how the ethnic or religious identity, as well as network and religious entities, used to distribute patronage and clientelism. Some previous research proved that money politic and efforts to enhance votes are more effective when primordialism issue plays its role. Sentiments, symbols and ethnic entities, as well as religion, significantly have strong influence in shaping the behaviors of voters, although it does not stand alone. Money politic has reciprocal relation with political identity. The issues that we are going to discuss is the electoral practice of candidates of Chinese groups in North Sumatra for three levels of parliament in the first zone of the election. The solidity ofChinese ethnic group is also fragile where the social politic domain related to clan and interest also embellishes social relationships among them. However, there is cultural mechanism presents along with the senior leaders whose capacity to consolidate various groups of social politic and interest. The selected candidates are introduced to the Chinese community leaders to get support from both aspects which are votes and finance. The success team also managed to lobby the political party to place their candidates in voting zones which supporting each other at district, provincial and national level. Social projects are organized intensively as part of softer and elegance patronage, rather than buying the voters Keywords— Patronage-Clientelism, election,Political Identity.

Patronage-Clientelism and Political Identity of Chinese Candidate, A Case Study of PSMTI in Medan, North Sumatera in General Election 2014