Top 12 of 2025 Senatorial Race Includes Erwin Tulfo from Alyansa at 4th Spot
ERWIN TULFO – The newly-elected Senator went emotional during his visit to the grave of his late mother, Caridad.
This midterm election, the Commission on Elections made history with the fastest canvassing of votes for the senatorial race. After the May 12 polls that included both local and national elections, the COMELEC proclaimed the winners of the 2025 Senatorial Election last Saturday. Six (6) candidates from the Alyansa Para Sa Pagbabago made it to the Top 12.
Pres. Bongbong Marcos called the Alyansa candidates his “dream team”. According to him, all the senatorial bets of the grand alliance have experience in public service and he will be one lucky president if they will all win in the senatorial race.
However, only six (6) candidates made it to the Top 12 of the senatorial race. ACT-CIS Representative Erwin Tulfo made it to the Top 12.
Newly-elected Sen. Erwin Tulfo ranked 4th in the 2025 Senatorial Election. He earned 17,118,881 votes from Filipinos across the nation and abroad. He will join his brother, Sen. Raffy Tulfo, in the upper chamber of the legislative branch of the government.
The other Alyansa senatorial bets who made it to the Top 12 are former senators Ping Lacson, Lito Lapid, and Tito Sotto, Sen. Pia Cayetano, and Las Piñas district representative Camille Villar. Here are the winning senators:
- Go, Christopher ‘Bong” — 27,121,073 votes
- Aquino, Bam — 20,971,899 votes
- Dela Rosa, Ronald “Bato” — 20,773,946 votes
- Tulfo, Erwin — 17,118,881 votes
- Pangilinan, Kiko — 15,343,229 votes
- Marcoleta, Rodante — 15,250,723 votes
- Lacson, Ping — 15,106,111 votes
- Sotto, Tito — 14,832,996 votes
- Cayetano, Pia — 14,573,430 votes
- Villar, Camille — 13,651,274 votes
- Lapid, Lito — 13,394,102 votes
- Marcos, Imee — 13,339,227 votes
Following his proclamation, newly-elected Sen. Erwin Tulfo visited the gave of his late mother, Caridad Teshiba Tulfo. He went emotional during his visit to his late mom as he thanked her for her prayers for him then and now.
“I made it Mom… Salamat sa mga dasal mo noon, at hanggang dyan sa heaven. I love you forever Mom,” he wrote in his post.
The Tulfo brothers are among the government officials who came from the same family. Their other brother, Ben Bitag Tulfo, also ran for senator in the 2025 Midterm Elections but ranked 13th. Previously, now-Senator Erwin Tulfo claimed he will resign if a bill against political dynasty is passed into law.