Achieving a legitimate democracy with a high level of participation through the holding of regional head elections can not be relied upon only in the General Election Commission. Strengthening of government networks is needed to increase community participation. This paper discusses how the structure of the network formed in the implementation of regional head election in Pekanbaru City. Using network theory according to Povan and Kenis (2008) with three forms of network structure: PGN,

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... tional leaders (LOG), and regulated network administration (LOG). Based on the results of the analysis, the network formed strongly influence the level of political participation of the community in the election. Network Patterns In a network there are two important parts of network structure, namely actors (nodes) and relationships between actors (links). Actors are not always individuals, but can also be organizations. Bebagai relationship direction and interaction between network actors are forming a pattern so that to know struktu what network patterns are formed must be based on interaction patterns that occur. The network pattern is useful to describe the relationship structure and position of the actor in the network. Through the network pattern can be known several things including: the structure of a network, how closely intensive members of the network interact with each other, how the pattern of interaction between members in the network, and how the position of actors inside network, whether as a determinant or as a liaison (Eriyanto, 2014) [1]. In the network pattern there are relationships such as coordination, communication, negotiation and others and able 118 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).