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Urgent: Duterte leading in Philippine presidential election: partial tally

Xinhua, May 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is taking a strong lead in the Philippine presidential election, according to an unofficial and partial tally of votes cast on Monday evening.

Based on 60.02 percent of registered voters' ballots, Duterte had 10,459,816 votes, followed by Grace Poe at 5,952,327 votes and Manuel Roxas at 5,806,579, the statistics from partial and unofficial Comelec Transparency serve showed.

Comelec, the Commission on Elections, is the Philippine principal government agency tasked by the Constitution to enforce and administer all laws and regulations concerning the conduct of regular and special election.

The results does not include overseas and local absentee voting. Enditem