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The Lom tribe is a unique community in Bangka Island. Known as SukuLom because they are considered as not havingknown religion (lom: not yet). This community is considered as one of the old tribes that has not developed like other communities in this area. However, as a unit of society which bounded by the population administration system, the Lom Tribe cannot be separated from legal and political norms. It is interesting to examine how the political behavior of the people in the Lom Tribe is in the General Election. The interesting question is whether the colors of their political choices are uniform or varied, then how electoral political elites play at the grass root level. In the end, this paper will examine on how the political behavior of the community is amidst the gusts of modernization that have slowly begun to come to this community. The fact that political behavior was originally very collective and homogeneous gradually begin to color. The Lom tribe, which has been known to be marginal, has begun to play a negotiable and heterogeneous political role. With its communality, the Lom Tribe builds a different face of electoral politics; the typical of indigenous communities.