<![CDATA[This study aims to examine how the Student Council President election at Junior High School (SMP) Al-Azhar Medan, an Islamic school, works as a pedagogical space for internalizing political ethics grounded in divine values. A qualitative case study was carried out. Data came from semi-structured interviews with nine informants (two candidates, four student voters, a Pancasila Education teacher, the student council advisor, and the school principal), observation of the election, and documentation in the form of election photographs, the voter attendance list, the ballot box, and the public vote tally. The data were analyzed with the interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña. The results show six patterns: honest campaigning, trustworthy leadership, respect for peers’ choices, civility in competition, rejection of manipulative practices, and a school culture that accompanies the election through counsel, habituation, supervision, and reflection. The election recorded 606 votes, 375 for Pair 01 and 231 for Pair 02. The study contributes an Islamic pedagogical reading of school democracy: divine values act as an ethical orientation that is transmitted through nasihat, pembiasaan, muraqabah, and muhasabah, so that an annual procedure becomes a moral learning experience for students.]]>
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