News Update How did the presidential and vice-presidential candidates do in your province?

As an added feature in GMANews.TV’s election coverage, we are presenting a provincial breakdown of the presidential and vice-presidential votes in a visual, interactive and user-friendly format. It also includes the vote breakdowns in Hong Kong and Singapore. var so = new SWFObject("http://www.gmanews.tv/flash/maps/provincial_results.swf", "eleksyon 2010 dashboard", "510", "380", "8"); so.addParam("quality", "high"); so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); so.addVariable("data_url_link", "http://www.gmanews.tv/widgets/flash/eleksyon_flash_maps.txt"); so.write("flashcontent"); Click here for a fullscreen view of GMANews.TV's provincial tally map

As with the other GMA News tallies on this site, this one is based on only 90.26% of the election returns; the rest the Commission on Elections has yet to transmit to the server where media can extract the data.

According to a May 28 statement by Namfrel chair Jose Cuisia, “This (the 10% gap in ERs) reflects that no reports were transmitted or disclosed to the public from some 7,500 PCOS machines. The COMELEC must explain where and why these machines failed to transmit data or why the data was withheld from the public."

Despite the tally’s incompleteness, the provincial breakdown can yield many insights a reader can derive from just mousing over the provinces. For example, Noynoy Aquino did not bother to visit Palawan during his election campaign (click on GMANews.TV’s campaign trails map here) yet still managed to come in second (after Estrada, who did visit).

In Mar Roxas’s home province of Capiz, his rival Jojo Binay still won nearly 83,000 votes to come in second (Roxas still won with almost 192,000). And in Metro Manila, Tondo boy Manny Villar came in a woeful fourth, finishing behind Aquino, Estrada, and Gibo Teodoro, in that order.

And finally, the disqualified Vetellano Acosta, whose name was already on the ballot, still got more votes in many provinces than Richard Gordon, Nick Perlas, Jamby Madrigal, and JC de los Reyes. In at least one province, Bukidnon, Acosta garnered more votes than all four of them combined. In the event of a close race, between Aquino and Estrada, for example, Acosta’s tally might have made a difference, leading Aquino followers to claim that he took away votes from the next name on the ballot, a tactic that others may attempt in the next automated elections. – Howie Severino,
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