Tag: senate race

“It has yet to sink in,” says Robin Padilla on leading May 2022 senate race; thanks INC for solid vote

  (Eagle News)– Senatorial candidate actor Robin Padilla maintained his lead as the top senatoriable who got the most number of votes in the May 9, 2022 elections. As of the May 12 partial and unofficial count, or three days after the elections, his votes hit more than 26.4 million, while the candidate at rank 2 is senator Loren Legada who in the previous elections had always been the frontrunner in the senatorial race. Legarda […]

De Lima on loss of Otso Diretso bets in Senate polls: It’s “hard, painful” but “we should not give up”

(Eagle News)–Opposition senator Leila de Lima has expressed disappointment over the loss of Otso Diretso Senate bets in the recently concluded polls. “I could not understand how the objectively undeserving – those who are known to have committed crimes against the nation, who presented no concrete plans of action, who could show no accomplishment except their ‘loyalty’ to one man, and those who are fencesitters- could win the votes of the Filipino people,” De Lima, […]

Villar maintains lead in Senate race

(Eagle News)–Reelectionist Senator Cynthia Villar continued to lead the Senate race on Sunday, May 19, based on partial and unofficial results from the Commission on Elections transparency server. Villar had 25,116,310 votes vis à vis Grace Poe’s 21,911,481 votes. In third place was Bong Go, with 20,453,347 votes. Below are the other Senate bets in the winning circle: 4. Pia Cayetano – 19,632,440 votes 5. Bato dela Rosa – 18,802,305 votes 6. Sonny Angara – […]

Updated: Villar, Poe, Go continue to top senate race; no LP bets still in top 12 as of Comelec’s latest partial unofficial results

    (Eagle News) — Senators Cynthia Villar and Grace Poe continued to top the senatorial race, followed by former Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go in the latest unofficial and partial returns of the Commission on Elections. Still, no one from the Liberal party’s “Otso Diretso” senatorial slate managed to get in as of the partial Comelec results of 2:50 p.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2018. Villar got 24,463,539 votes topping the list, […]