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Urgent: Duterte wins Philippine presidential election: preliminary result

Xinhua, May 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Davao city mayor Rodrigo Duterte has won the 2016 Philippine presidential election, according to an unofficial and partial tally of votes cast as of 2:00 a.m. Tuesday.

Based on 87 percent of valid ballots, Duterte pocketed 14,499,396 votes, followed by Manuel Roxas at 8,680,203 votes, the statistics from partial and unofficial Comelec Transparency server showed.

Even if the rest of the uncounted valid votes all went to Roxas, he would not be able to turn the tide. Endit