As a biggest modern Musleem organization, Muhammadiyah has long experienced in the changing political system in Indonesia from authoritarian regime to procedural democracy. This research tries to explore the grass root Muhammadiyah�s elite in direct regent election contestation. Mix-research method was employed with combining quantitative and qualitative analysis. All respondends of Muhammadiyah�s Village Board were selected from three regencies, Bantul, Gunungkidul and Sleman in Yogyakarta Province as a capital of Muhammadiyah organization. This findings is contrary with Muhammadiyah electoral behavior at national level with three internal characteristics � a tendency to avoid partisan politics, independent rational investigation and divided elites1. However, in the election of local leaders (direct election), Muhammadiyah�s electoral behavior is characterized with partisan politics, collective action and unified elites, Keywords: Muhammadiyah, electoral behavior, partisanship, elite, partisan politics, democracy.

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