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 – 18,041,634 votes

7. Lito Lapid – 16,880,206 votes

8. Imee Marcos – 15,729,192 votes

9. Francis Tolentino – 15,368,023 votes

10. Koko Pimentel – 14,548,465 votes

11. Bong Revilla – 14,546,314 votes

12. Nancy Binay – 14,448,498 votes

Trailing close to Binay is JV Ejercito, with 14,224,622 votes.

Bam Aquino was in fourteenth place, with 14,080,499 votes.

The results represent 98.26% of  nationwide election returns, or 86,319 of 87,851 ERs.

This translates to 46,933,612 of 63,662,481 registered voters.