The 2016 Election Report

The latest count prior to the Congressional official report on May 24, 2016, regarding the results of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, are cited below. The results came from a report that 95.87 percent of precincts all over the country had reported.

The first column are the candidates for the presidency, and the other names opposite them are their candidates for the vice-presidency. The last column shows the difference between their votes.

DUTERTE 15,914,972 CAYETANO 5,663,670 10,251,302 ROXAS 9,681,731 ROBREDO 13,992,311 -4,310,580 POE 8,929,823 ESCUDERO 4,806,960 4,122,863 BINAY 5,616,535 HONASAN 758,383 4,858,152 MIRIAM 1,420,535 MARCOS 13,775,388 -12,354,853 SENERES 25,117 TRILLANES 842,498 -817,381 TOTAL 41,588,713 TOTAL VP 39,839,210 DIFFERENCE 1,749,503 TRILLANES 817,381 TOTAL VP 39,814,093
From the votes cast for the Presidents, there appears to be a difference of about 1.7 million votes cast for the Vice-presidents. Even assuming that those given to the late Seneres were deleted from those cast for Trillanes, the total number went beyond the million attributed to the total or 39,814,093. (The votes for Seneres were considered “void” and thus only 817,381 were credited as votes for Trillanes.) The last column shows that, for the first line, the candidate for the presidency had ten million votes difference, or that the voters considered that candidate as more qualified to be their choice. The interpretation holds true for those in the lines where the numbers are positive; Honasan and Escudero were considered “less qualified” than their principals. On the other hand, since the difference is quite high, in a total amounting to more than twelve million, Senator Bongbong Marcos, is considered more than qualified than his principal, even as his other opponent, Congresswoman Robredo, had more than four million votes than her principal.
In the meantime, Senator Marcos is complaining and objecting to the “win” of Congresswoman Robredo of more than two hundred thousand votes (216,923), claiming of having been “cheated” of his win. With more than five percent (100-95.87=4.23) votes or 1,792 thousand still to be counted, the complaint will have to be resolved. I have a few questions on these numbers: 1.      How many precincts are there? And on an average, how many voters are there per precinct? 2.      Since every sheet to be accomplished the voter had to shade the names of those s/he voted for, why are the totals for the presidential and the vice presidential candidates different? 3.       If I add all those votes given to the Vice Presidents (39,814,093) and compare them with those given to the Presidents (41,563,596) there will be a total only of about 40 million.  I can only surmise that almost one million did not shade or vote for any VP.