Robin Padilla still on top of Comelec’s partial tally with 25 million votes

Actor Robin Padilla is still leading the 2022 senatorial elections based on the partial and official canvassing results of the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) as of Saturday morning.

Sitting as the NBOC, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has already canvassed 149 Certificates of Canvass (COCs) for senators and party-list groups for the automated election system and manual overseas voting as of Saturday.

The following are the Top 12 senatoriables based on the NBOC’s National Tally Sheet Report Number 4, released on May 14, 2022 at 6:12 a.m.:

• Padilla, Robin - 25,856,168
• Legarda, Loren, - 23,614,960
• Tulfo, Raffy - 22,801,648
• Gatchalian, Sherwin - 20,052,418
• Escudero, Chiz - 19,784,560
• Villar, Mark - 18,927,520

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• Cayetano, Allan Peter - 18,743,575
• Zubiri, Juan Miguel - 18,153,807
• Villanueva, Joel - 18,058,632
• Ejercito, JV - 15,428,651
• Hontiveros, Risa - 15,016,708
• Estrada, Jinggoy - 14,693,932

The NBOC resumed the canvassing of votes past 3 p.m. on Sunday, to canvass the Certificates of Canvass from certain areas in India, Laos, Pakistan, Hungary, Poland, Jordan, Chile, Syria, and South Africa, as well as the COCs for the persons deprived of liberty (PDLs).

All in all, the NBOC has canvassed 159 out of 173 COCs as of Sunday afternoon.

Comelec Commissioner George Garcia said that the poll body is looking at proclaiming all 12 winning senators and partial winning party-list groups for Eleksyon 2022 on Tuesday or Wednesday. — BM, GMA News