Bong Go —SENATE Bam Aquino Kiko Pangilinan
MANILA, Philippines — Partial and unofficial tally aggregated from transparency servers utilizing official knowledge from the Fee on Elections (Comelec) confirmed President Marcos’ Alyansa slate dominating the 2025 midterm elections.
Three of the “Duterten,” or allies of former President Rodrigo Duterte, have been within the Magic 12, whereas opposition’s returning senators Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV and Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan each ranked excessive regardless of not being among the many strongest contenders in preelection surveys.
Based mostly on the tally as of 9:54 p.m. on Monday, with 69.59 % of election returns (ERs) transmitted, reelectionist Christopher “Bong” Go garnered essentially the most variety of votes at 24,105,805.
READ: 2025 Philippine Election Outcomes: Partial and Unofficial Tally
Go ranked first within the final “Ulat ng Bayan” Pulse Asia survey from April 20 to 24 and second within the newest Social Climate Stations (SWS) survey from Could 2 to six, commissioned by Stratbase group.
He was adopted by Aquino, who left the Liberal Celebration (LP) final yr and is now operating beneath the banner of Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino political social gathering, with 19,190,010 votes. Aquino ranked 14th within the newest Pulse survey and sixteenth within the SWS survey.
Third among the many senatorial candidates was reelectionist Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa with 18,432,639 votes, adopted by incumbent ACT-CIS social gathering record Rep. Erwin Tulfo with 15,389,693 votes.
Surprises
In fifth place was Pangilinan, the lone senatorial candidate from the LP, with 14,017,321 votes. Pangilinan was nineteenth in Pulse Asia and seventeenth in SWS.
Behind them have been returning senators Ping Lacson (13,719,661) within the sixth spot and Tito Sotto (13,496,911) in eighth place. Each are a part of the administration-backed slate.
Iglesia ni Cristo member and incumbent Sagip social gathering record Rep. Rodante Marcoleta, who was by no means among the many front-runners in preelection polls, was in seventh spot with 13,694,787 votes. Marcoleta was seventeenth in Pulse Asia and 18th in SWS.
Reelectionist Sen. Pia Cayetano is poised to affix her brother Alan Peter on the Senate as she garnered 13,181,344 votes.
Incumbent Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar, who’s formally a part of the President’s slate but additionally bought the endorsement of Vice President Sara Duterte, obtained 12,152,481 votes. She’s going to doubtless sit within the Senate along with her brother Sen. Mark Villar, who’s midway via his six-year time period.
In the meantime, presidential sister Imee Marcos can also be a contender for a contemporary six-year time period after touchdown eleventh place within the senatorial race with 11,966,694 votes.
Clinching the twelfth spot was reelectionist Sen. Lito Lapid, who’s operating beneath the Alyansa banner with 11,893,896 votes.
Behind him have been doable contenders for the final spots of the 12-seat senator race, with broadcaster Ben Tulfo at thirteenth (10,915,727 votes), adopted by Alyansa senatorial candidates incumbent Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. (10,721,313), incumbent Makati Metropolis Mayor Abby Binay (10,574,393), and former Inside Secretary Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. (10,447,430).
Unofficial tallies
The Comelec on Monday night time disavowed partial and unofficial tallies for the senatorial, social gathering record and native races that surfaced on media networks supposedly coming from the ballot physique.
“If there’s a partial tally, the information might have been sourced from Comelec, however the tally didn’t come from us. The one issuing partial, unofficial ‘operating’ tally of outcomes is a distinct [entity],” Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco informed reporters by way of Viber.
Laudiangco clarified that solely unofficial outcomes per precinct can be found on the Comelec microsite, 2025electionresults.comelec.gov.ph.
“By no means did the Comelec come out with unofficial tally or mixture or operating whole, whether or not handbook or automated, outdoors canvassing. The regulation solely permits the Comelec to mixture or sum [up] after canvass,” he mentioned.
He added that the Comelec will launch unofficial outcomes solely per precinct, as a part of transparency, and the official canvassed outcomes, whether or not full or partial.
“That is in compliance with the regulation,” he added.
Delayed transmission
In the meantime, accredited citizen watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Accountable Voting (PPCRV) and media community Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) expressed concern over the delay within the transmission of votes to their transparency servers, regardless of the Comelec’s earlier assurances that election outcomes this yr can be quicker resulting from main technical upgrades.
As of 9 p.m. on Monday, two hours after polling precincts have been supposed to shut, the transparency servers of PPCRV and KBP the place the partial and unofficial outcomes of the Could 12, 2025, nationwide and native elections remained empty.
At the moment, the partial and official depend of election leads to the Comelec web site confirmed that it has already obtained 63,195 election returns from precincts throughout the nation—or 67.67 % of all of the 93,387 anticipated ERs.
PPCRV spokesperson Ana Singson mentioned this was “uncommon” and so they have been “involved” in regards to the unexplained delay.
“The unhappy information is that we now have not had entry to any of that knowledge, so it’s of concern to us. We now have been in fixed contact with Comelec. We now have not but obtained our response,” Singson informed reporters at its command heart in Manila.
She mentioned they solely obtained recordsdata from the Comelec server however these have been empty, apart from a “header” title.
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“I’ve to say that that is fairly uncommon and that this has not occurred since 2010,” she defined. —with a report from Inquirer Analysis