It pitted incumbent Rano Karno against People's Representative Council member and former mayor of Tangerang Wahidin Halim.

Wahidin, supported by a coalition of 6 parliamentary parties, secured a landslide victory in his former constituency at Tangerang, and defeated Rano with a margin of 90,000 votes despite losing in 6 of the other 7 regencies and cities.

Ratu Atut Chosiyah served as the governor of Banten - Indonesia's fifth most populous province - between 2007 and 2014, until she was arrested for a bribery scandal related to an election dispute.

[6] Registration for the candidates opened between 28 and 30 August 2016, with the campaign period ranging from October 2016 to February 2017.

[12] On 5 April, KPU officially announced Wahidin-Andika as the winning pair.