The Winners Of The Senatorial Race Could Announced Tonight
ELECTION RESULTS – The ballot count resumed last night after another election trouble that caused the delay of the proclamation.
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Due to the delay in processing, the set proclamation date has been moved. The winning senators will be announced probably tonight, while the winning party lists shall be announced tomorrow.
Assistand director of the Commission On Elections, Frances Arabe also made the same claims that they are hoping to get the ballot counting done by today for them to be able to announce the winning senators by night.
There were also reports of delayed transmissions of Certificates of Canvass from Washington, United States and Saudi Arabia.
By 8 pm yesterday (May 20, 2019), four COCs coming from abroad with 633,527 total vote count and a COC from the province of Isabela with 1,050,681 total votes are still pending canvass.
Specifically, the votes were coming from Japan (76,166 votes), Saudi Arabia (326,620 votes), Washington US (228,472 votes and from Abuja, Nigeria (1,999 votes).
The delay of transmission of these ballots were, according to Arabe, caused by malfunctioning SD Cards.
This is based on an article from PhilStar.
As of now, the leading senatorial candidates in the race are:
- Cynthia Villar with 24,757,642 votes,
- Grace Poe with 21,563,558 votes,
- Bong Go with 20,223,738 votes,
- Pia Cayetano with 19,390,096 votes,
- Bato dela Rosa with 18,639,583 votes,
- Sonny Angara with 17,786,740 votes.
- Lito Lapid with 16,587,742 votes,
- Imee Marcos with 15,362,702 votes,
- Francis Tolentino with 15,196,397 votes,
- Koko Pimentel with 14,395,957 votes,
- Bong Revilla with 14,279,625 votes, and
- Nancy Binay with 14,065,071 votes
This is based on the 165 COCs that was tabulated as of Sunday (May 20, 2019).
That is all there is to it, at least for now. We’ll post updates as soon as we got them.
