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Philippine Election Results: Benigno Aquino Set to Succeed

Philippine Election Results: Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino Winning

The Philippine election results are hinting at a landslide victory by Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, who currently leads the pack after 40% of the votes are already tallied. Begnino Aquino is the son of Benigno Servillano Aquino Jr., who was assassinated during the Marcos period, and Corazon Aquino, who soon after supplanted Ferdinand Marcos as Chief executive through People Power revolution immediately after a falsified snap Philippine election results extended the term of Marcos, ending a 20-year regime.

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Liberal Party standard bearer Benigno C. Aquino III is topping his rivals in the presidential bout primarily based the just updated Philippine election results tally. Makati Mayor Jejomar C. Binay of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan was leading the vice presidential race in a GMA Philippine News tally based upon 45.05 percent of Philippine election results nationwide.

The unofficial records culled out of 76,347 precincts countrywide found Aquino, child of Philippine democracy icons Corazon C. Aquino and Benigno Aquino Jr., garnering 6,969,177 votes. Binay accumulated 6,650,523 votes.

Aquino also leads in the partial count of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as of 1 .m., which showed him with 5,853,537 votes (40.44 percent) over former President Joseph Estrada (Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino) with 6,066,078 votes, Sen. Manny Villar Jr. (Nacionalista Party) with 3,264,834 votes and Gilberto Teodoro Jr. (Lakas-Kampi-CMD) with 2,501,298 votes.

Next came Eddie Villanueva (Bangon Pilipinas), Sen. Richard Gordon (Bagumbayan), and disqualified candidate Vetellano Acosta (Kilusang Bagong Lipunan) with 453,016 (3.12 percent), 226,552 (1.56 percent), 61,704 (0.42 percent), respectively.

Independent candidate Nicanor Perlas, meanwhile, got 19,196 votes (0.13 percent), followed by fellow independent candidate Sen. Maria Ana Consuelo Madrigal with 17,556 (0.12 percent), and John Carlos De Los Reyes (Ang Kapatiran) with 15,842 (0.1 percent).

In the vice presidential race, Binay, Estrada's running mate, got 5,881,127 votes (40.63 percent) while Liberal Party's Sen. Mar Roxas emmerged second with 5,310,355 votes (36.68 percent), reported by the Comelec.

Villar's running companion Sen. Loren Legarda arrived 3rd with 1,542,687 votes (10.65 percent), succeeded by Bayani Fernando with 422,607 votes (2.91 percent), and Lakas-Kampi-CMD's Eduardo Manzano with 249,025 votes (1.72 percent).

Bangon Pilipinas' Perfecto Yasay came in sixth with 144,471 votes (0.99 percent), while former broadcaster Jay Sonza came next with 24,616 votes (0.17 percent). Finishing last was Dominador Chipeco of Ang Kapatiran with 17, 971 (0.012 percent) votes.

The figures represent 35.38 percent of precincts across the country, the earliest official batch of Philippine election results transmitted to Comelec servers, as of 9:45 p.m.

The Comelec mentioned about 75 percent of all registered voters cast their votes on Monday. The figure transposes to about 37.5 million of the 50 million registered voters for the May polls, as per Comelec chairman Jose Melo.

“I would have been very happy with a little more than 50 percent, but we have here 75 percent. I am very, very happy," Melo said