This study is conducted to scrutinize political
event effect towards the stock liquidity and market
reaction in Indonesia. 2019 Presidential Election is being
the focus of the study and using both abnormal return
and bid-ask spread as the parameter of the study. The
samples of this study are listed stocks from both LQ45
and PEFINDO25 Index that are actively traded on April
3, 2019 to May 1, 2019. Parametric t-test and paired
sample t-test are being utilized to measure the
hypotheses. Overall, the results of the study explain that
the market is not significantly react to the presidential
election and this can be understood because market has
already hypothetically known the winner of the election
previous of the announcement in media. This study also
strengthens the major studies that Indonesia Stock
Market is not an efficient market
Keywords : component; Abnormal return; bid-ask spread; paired sample t-test; Indonesian president and vicepresident election.