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How the provinces voted for president, VP


President-elect Rodrigo Duterte won in 36 out of 81 provinces in the country. 

Vice President-elect Leni Robredo got the highest number of votes in 41 provinces. 

GMA News Research gathered this from the National Board of Canvassers official tally.

 


 


The Commission on Elections placed the number of registered voters for the 2016 polls at more than 54 million. The biggest chunk of voters came from Luzon provinces with 30 million, followed by Mindanao provinces with almost 13 million and Visayas provinces with 11 million. 

There are 38 provinces in Luzon, 27 provinces in Mindanao and 16 provinces in the Visayas. 

In the presidential race, second-placer Manuel “Mar” Roxas II won in 23 provinces. Sen. Grace Poe had the most number of votes in 16 provinces while Vice President Jejomar Binay was the leading candidate in six provinces. 

Duterte got the highest number of votes for president in 23 out of the 27 provinces in Mindanao, where he hails from.

Roxas was the top choice for president in 11 of the 16 provinces of his bailiwick, the Visayas islands. 

Poe had the lead in 16 out of the 38 Luzon provinces, the biggest among the presidential candidates. Poe, who is from Luzon, did not top the polls in any province in the Visayas and Mindanao. 

University of the Philippines Political Science Professor Aries Arugay said the results show that Filipino voters still preferred a province-mate in casting their ballot.  

“That’s balwarte politics, regionalism. Expected na ang ganyang result based on balwarte politics,” Arugay says.  

Duterte’s Mindanao sweep

In the 36 provinces where Duterte got the most number of votes for president, 23 are in Mindanao, eight are in Luzon and five are in the Visayas. 

This means that the Davao City mayor won in all but four of the 27 Mindanao provinces. The PDP-Laban standard-bearer was the top presidential candidate in all five provinces of Region 11 or the Davao Region, site of his hometown Davao City. Duterte also won in all five provinces of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and all four provinces of Soccsksargen or Region 12. 

He was also the top choice for president in four of the five provinces in the Caraga or Region 13, three of the five provinces in Northern Mindanao or Region 10 and two of the three Zamboanga provinces. 

Roxas  won in four Mindanao provinces—Agusan del Sur, Camiguin, Misamis Occidental and Zamboanga del Norte. 

Roxas country

As expected, Roxas ruled in the Visayas islands which include his hometown of Capiz. The Liberal Party standard-bearer gained the most number of votes cast for president in 11 of the 16 Visayan provinces. 

Western Visayas or Region 6, where Capiz belongs, is Roxas country indeed. All five provinces in this region gave Roxas the most number of votes for president. 

The two provinces of the newly created Negros Island Region also chose Roxas for president. It was Roxas, then DILG secretary, who endorsed the proposal to create the new region. Roxas’s mother, Judy Araneta Roxas, hails from Negros Occidental. 

Roxas also led the polls in half of the six Region 8 or Eastern Visayas provinces. He also won in Siquijor.

Duterte won in five Visayan provinces—Cebu, Bohol, Southern Leyte, Leyte and Biliran.

Duterte’s father Vicente was a mayor of Danao, Cebu, and is reportedly related to the Durano and Almendras political families in the province. The president-elect was born in Southern Leyte.

Duterte and Roxas managed to win in provinces in all three island groups. Poe and Binay topped the presidential race only in Luzon provinces.  

16 Luzon provinces for Poe

Poe is the top choice for president among the provinces in Luzon. All 16 provinces where she obtained the highest number of votes are in Luzon. 

Three of the four provinces in Region 1 or the Ilocos Region had Poe as top choice for president. Ilocos Norte went for Duterte. 

Half of the six provinces in Region 5 or the Bicol Region also chose Poe. The other half of the Bicol provinces picked Roxas—Camarines Sur, hometown of his running mate Robredo, Albay and Masbate. 

Half of the six provinces in the Cordillera Administrative Region also gave Poe the highest number of votes for president. She was also the choice of voters in the Central Luzon provinces of Nueva Ecija, Zambales and Aurora; Nueva Vizcaya in Region 2; Quezon in Region 4A; and Oriental Mindoro and Marinduque in Region 4B.

The other half of CAR provinces—Abra, Apayao, Kalinga—went to Binay. He also got the most votes for president in three out of five provinces in the Cagayan Valley Region—Cagayan, Isabela and Quirino. 

Binay’s mother, Lourdes Gatan Cabauatan, hails from Cabagan, Isabela.

He also won in these provinces in the 2010 vice presidential race. 

Duterte topped the tally in eight Luzon provinces. While this may be a far second from Poe’s 16 Luzon provinces, Duterte was the top choice in vote-rich provinces. Four of the five vote-rich provinces in Calabarzon or Region 4A went for Duterte. 

He also won in the Central Luzon provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga and Bataan as well as Ilocos Norte. 

Roxas was the winner in eight Luzon provinces: Tarlac, Batanes, the three Bicol provinces and three of the five provinces in Region 4B—Occidental Mindoro, Romblon and Palawan. 

VP race

In the vice presidential contest, Robredo won in 14 provinces each in Luzon and the Visayas and 13 provinces in Mindanao

 


 


Her closest contender, Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., took a total of 33 provinces—23 in Luzon, eight in Mindanao and two in the Visayas.

In Luzon, Robredo was the top choice for vice president in all five provinces in Region 4B or Mimaropa. She also got the highest number of votes in five out of six provinces in the Bicol Region, which includes her hometown of Camarines Sur.  

The only Bicol province she did not win is Sorsogon, the hometown of vice presidential candidate Sen. Francis Escudero. It is the only province where he got the most votes. 

Robredo was also the winner in Batangas and Quezon provinces in Region 4A as well as Tarlac and Batanes.

She benefited from her running mate’s pull in the Visayas regions. But unlike Roxas, Robredo also won in vote-rich Cebu and the Visayan provinces of Bohol and Southern Leyte. 

Bongbong is top choice among Luzon provinces 

Marcos’s 23-province haul in Luzon was the biggest among the vice presidential candidates. 

Marcos got not only the “solid North” vote of the four Ilocos Region provinces but was also the winner in all six provinces in the Cordillera Administrative Region. 

Marcos also took the top spot in six out of seven provinces in vote-rich Region 3 or Central Luzon. In Region 2 or the Cagayan Valley, four out of five provinces gave him the most number of votes for vice president. 

Three out of five Region 4 provinces—Cavite, Rizal and Laguna, all teeming with voters—also went for Marcos. 

In the Visayas, Marcos won in the provinces of Biliran and Leyte, the hometown of his mother, former First Lady and incumbent Ilocos Norte Second District Imelda Marcos. 

In Mindanao, he was the top choice in all four Soccsksargen provinces. His eight-province Mindanao win also included Dinagat Islands, Zamboanga del Sur, Lanao del Norte and Sulu. 

Cayetano in Davao 

Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, running mate of Davao City’s Duterte, was the top vice presidential choice in all five provinces in the Davao Region as well as Surigao del Sur. 

Cayetano also obtained the biggest voted in his hometown of Taguig City, where he served as congressman, vice mayor and councillor. 

Vote-rich provinces

Based on the latest Comelec data, 15 provinces each have at least 1 million registered voters for the May 9 polls. These are Cebu, Cavite, Pangasinan, Laguna, Negros Occidental, Bulacan, Batangas, Rizal, Iloilo, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Davao del Sur, Leyte, Quezon and Camarines Sur.  

Duterte won in nine vote-rich provinces: Cebu, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan, Batangas, Rizal, Pampanga, Davao del Sur and Leyte. The votes he got in these nine provinces total more than 5 million or 30.4 percent of the votes he got so far. 

Roxas and Poe each won in three vote-rich provinces. Negros Occidental, Iloilo and Camarines Sur chose Roxas while Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija and Quezon picked Poe. 

Metro Manila 

Metro Manila has a total of 6.25 million registered voters for the 2016 polls, the second-biggest among all 18 regions. 

All but one of the 17 local government units in the National Capital Region gave the highest number of votes for president to Duterte and to Marcos for vice president. 

Duterte won in16 Metro Manila LGUs. Makati City, as expected, went for Binay, who was its mayor for 21 years before he was elected vice president in 2010. 

Marcos also won in 16 LGUs. Taguig City gave the biggest number of votes for vice president to Cayetano.

Tight races

In six provinces, the race was so tight—the margin was as little as 16 votes. 

That was in the vice presidential contest in Surigao del Sur, where Cayetano won 88,519 over Robredo’s 88,503 votes. 

The votes received by Roxas and Poe in Ifugao, Oriental Mindoro and Albay each had a difference of around 200 votes. Poe won in Ifugao and Oriental Mindoro while Roxas took Albay. 

Roxas won over Duterte by 460 votes in Zamboanga del Norte.

In Davao Occidental, Cayetano edged out Marcos in the vice presidential race by 450 votes.

 

—JST, GMA News
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