Indonesia ? The secular party of Indonesia’s president tripled its share of the vote in parliamentary elections as support for religious parties nose-dived in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.

After years of unpopular laws pushed through by religious hard-liners, regulating women’s dress and banning everything from smoking to yoga, even devout Muslims in Indonesia say they have had enough with religion in politics.

The election victory by the party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to help him win a second term when a presidential vote is held in July. The former army general became the country’s first democratically elected leader in 2004.

Support for the main Islamist parties in last month’s parliamentary polls declined from 39 percent five years ago to just 24 percent, largely because modern, urban voters view them as intolerant.

Official results showed the Democrats easily won the elections, pulling in nearly 21 percent of the vote, compared to 7 percent last time around — buoyed by Yudhoyono’s popularity and reform agenda. The second and third-ranking parties were also secular, although both also saw their share of the vote slide.

The Democrats now have 148 seats, the most in 560-member parliament.