Aklan winds up provincial canvass, local winners proclaimed

Kalibo, Aklan -- Aklan has winded up its provincial canvass of election results from various municipalities today with winners proclaimed by the Provincial Board of Canvassers, chaired by Atty. Renault Macarambong of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).

Based on the municipal tallies of Aklan’s 17 towns displayed outside the SP Session Hall here, incumbent Rep. of the Lone District of Aklan, Florencio T. Miraflores obtained a fresh mandate from Aklanons to serve in the same position for three years, winning over his opponent, Anthony Acevedo. Miraflores garnered a total of 130,051 votes while Acevedo got 43,687.

Incumbent Governor Carlito Marquez also won in the gubernatorial race, getting 90,623 votes while his opponents – Kareen Galvan of PMP got 1,333; Maria Bettina Garcia of PDP-Laban got 34,947 and Victoria Ramos of UNO got 72,339 votes.

Rep. Miraflores ran under the KAMPI party while Marquez ran under LAKAS.

Proclaimed winner in the vice gubernatorial race was Gabrielle Calizo of UNO. Calizo was a former Aklan representative.

Of Aklan’s 17 municipalities, election results revealed that 12 of the winning mayors ran under the KAMPI party; 2 ran under LAKAS CMD and 3 ran under the Nacionalista party. Of the winning vice mayors, 9 ran under LAKAS, 5 under KAMPI and 5 under NP.

In the Sangguniang Panlalawigan race, 3 of the winning candidates came from UNO while 2 came from LAKAS and KAMPI for the eastern district, while in the western district, 2 won under KAMPI, 2 under LAKAS and one from LP.

Local candidates who ran under KAMPI and LAKAS are all under the local umbrella group here, Tibyog it Aklan.

For the senatorial race, top 15 candidates with their corresponding votes include: Legarda, Loren, with 123,252 votes; Escudero, Francis Joseph, 115,636; Villar, Manuel, 109,107; Pangilinan, Francis, 99,085; Lacson, Panfilo, 93,626; Aquino, Benigno Simeon, 89,635; Angara, Edgardo, 80,252; Pichay, Prospero, 78,241; Cayetano, Alan, 72,737; Honasan, Gregorio, 68,011; Trillanes, Antonio, 65,503; Pimentel, Aquilino, 63,320; Zubiri, Juan Miguel, 62,815; Recto, Ralph, 61,595 and Arroyo, Joker, 61,178.

Atty. Macarambong, who was assigned here by the Commission on Elections at the height of the election period, said the just concluded political exercise in Aklan was generally peaceful and orderly.(PIA/Venus g. Villanueva