Former Sen. Bong Revilla Jr. pushed out reelectionist Sen. Bam Aquino out of the Top 12 senatorial candidates in the latest partial and official results posted by the Commission on Elections en banc sitting as National Board of Canvassers last night.
Aquino fell to 13th and has 13,384,293 total votes based on the 146 Certificates of Canvass received by the NBoC as of 7:16 p.m.
Revilla for the first time managed to get into the Top 12 since the official canvassing began.
The rankings in the rest of the Top 12 senatorial candidates remain unchanged since the NBoC last posted its partial and official results Thursday.
Reelectionist Sen. Cynthia Villar remain on top with 23,610,580 votes.
Second is reelectionist Sen. Grace Poe who has 20,711,849; Bong Go, 19,030,884; Pia Cayetano, 18,550,012; Ronald dela Rosa, 17,567,258; Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, 17,027,333;
Lito Lapid, 15,778,223; Imee Marcos, 14,775,948; Francis Tolentino, 14,387,602; Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel, 13,563,083; and Sen. Nancy Binay, 13,453,117.
In 14 and 15th are half-brothers Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito, 13,344,417, and former Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, 10,512,191.
The canvassing will resume today as the NBoC has to canvass 21 more CoCs.
The NBoC started officially canvassing the votes for senators and partylist groups Tuesday or the day after the elections at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.
Meanwhile, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting has validated about 26,800 or 30.61 percent of the election returns as of yesterday afternoon.
PPCRV national chairperson Myla Villanueva said they have a match rate of about 99.98 percent.
“For me that’s fine. There’s no significant problem,” Villanueva said.
Dr. Arwin Serrano, PPCRV board member, earlier said some discrepancies like typographical errors were encountered during the parallel count. Serrano said this was on the part of the encoders.
The election returns received and validated by the PPCRV came from Lingayen City, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Kalibo, Aklan, Nueva Vizcaya, and Cagayan de Oro City. (Jeffrey Damicog and Minka Tiangco)
