It’s official: Digong, Leni in Cebu

Majority of Cebuanos favor Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte over the other presidential candidates in the elections as he got more than a million votes in Cebu province and Cebu City. (CDN PHOTO/JUNJIE MENDOZA)

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte garnered a total of 1 million votes in Cebu City and Cebu province in the election.

Duterte garnered 726,559 votes in Cebu province and 296,246 in Cebu City or a total of 1,058,805 votes (not P1.4 million votes as earlier reported).

He led by about half-a-million votes against Liberal Party candidate Manuel Roxas III.

But the final and official tally of votes cast in the province showed a disparity when compared with an earlier tally posted on the GMA 7’s transparency server, which said that Duterte garnered a total of 1,123,075 in Cebu province. The unofficial Comelec-GMA 7 mirror server count was found to also include votes in Cebu City, which is not part of Cebu province. (The official canvass in Cebu City showed Duterte garnering 296,246 votes, that was erronously added to the 1.1 million votes posted in the Comelec-GMA 7 mirror server.)

Cebu province has a total of 1.9 million voters while Cebu City has 630,003 voters. The actual votes cast was 2.1 million (1.6 million in the province; 524, 850 in the city), which means Duteter got half of Cebu’s votes.

In the vice-presidential race, Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo (LP) dominated the race, who gathered a total of 753,286 votes. She was number one in the vice-presidential race in Cebu province with a total of 590,777 votes garnered and second in Cebu City with 162,509 votes.

Her close rival, Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. got 288,950 votes. Marcos ranked third both in Cebu province (196,943 votes) and Cebu City (92,007 votes).

Duterte’s running-mate, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, garnered a total of 615,660 votes.

Cayetano ranked second in the Cebu province race with 447,955 and first in Cebu City with 167,705 votes.