The count closed about 3:30 a.m. with Duterte ontop withb30,277 votes. He was followed by Miriam Defensor-Santiago with 7,089.
Trailing behind were Mar Roxas with 4,533 votes, Grace Poe with 2,898 and Jojo Binay with 1,118.
Roy Seneres, who died February 8 but whose name was not removed from the ballots. received 10 votes.
In the vice presidential race, Bongbong Marcos pushed further ahead with 25,432 votes.
Following far behind were Alan Pater Cayetano with 12,496 votes, Leni Robredo with 6,155, Chiz Escudero with 1,382, Antonio Trillanes IV with 287, and Gringo Honasan with 178.
The votes counted came from 46,396 voters who showed up to cast their ballots during the voting from April 9 to May 9, representing a 49 per cent turnout out of the 93,978 registered voters listed in 224 clustered precincts. The precincts totalled 95.
The atmosphere in the main hall of Bayanihan Center, where the counting was done, was largely somber, with the crowd dominated by poll watchers from the Duterte and Migrante camps.
After the adjournment, the SBOC will conven eagain at 2pmon Tuesday to count the votes cast by Filipinos in Taiwan, Macau, Beijng and the rest of China.
This is expected to be finished by late Tuesday, barring delays in the transmission of the results from these areas, said Deputy Consul General Kit de Jesus,chairman of the SBOC.
On this the last day of the month-long
political exercise, 839 people voted.
Four latecomers, who arrived more than 15 minutes after the gates had closed, climbed up the concrete path to enter through the exit, and asked to be allowed to vote.
Showing a Facebook post of the Consulate stating that voting on May 9 was from 8am to 7pm, they were angry that the closing was moved forward to 5pm. They said they just could not leave their employers’ homes to vote so they waited until the last day
It took Consul Charles Macaspac several minutes explaining how the mix-up happened, but still the four were resentful.
Consul General Bernardita Catalla was
at Bayanihan, overseeing the processing of arriving voters.
Then in the evening she mixed the media and community leaders as she watched
the canvassing of the votes in the center’s auditorium.
In this year’s general elections, a
better version of the controversial PCOS vote counting machine was used, which
improved the election process from the voting to the vote counting.
The system calls for the collation of
SD cards in the precincts upstairs, for uploading of data to the Collating and
Canvassing System, which will transmit the results to the national canvassing
center in Manila.
Voting in Hong Kong finished way past 5pm with the last voter, Rhaezcy
Dulnuan, casting her ballot at about 5:25pm. She was with three other voters
who entered through the front gate of Bayanihan just before the closing of the
election was announced.
