Bong Go retains lead in Senate race

Dutertes poised to win big in Davao City

- BY DHEL NAZARIO, HANNAH TORREGOZA, and IVY TEJANO

Reelectionist Senator Christopher "Bong" Go maintains a commanding lead in the partial unofficial tally of the 2025 senatorial elections, garnering 26,476,787 votes as of 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 13, data from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) transparency server showed.

Former senator Bam Aquino remains at No. 2 with 20,634,210 votes, while Go's partymate and fellow reelectionist Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa is still in third place with 20,261,077 votes.

Media personality and former Social Welfare secretary Erwin Tulfo still hangs on at fourth place with 16,812,695 votes, ahead of former senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan (15,086,511) and Sagip Partylist Rep.

Rodante Marcoleta (14,902,929).

Rounding out the top 12 are: Former Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson - 14,855,055 Former Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III 14,595,423 Senator Pia Cayetano 14,304,902 Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar - 13,355,859 Senator Lito Lapid 13,116,390 Senator Imee Marcos 13,034,300 Still in contention but currently outside the top 12 are broadcaster Ben Tulfo (11,885,181), Senator Ramon Bong Revilla (11,786,693), and Makati Mayor Abby Binay (11,567,840).

Akbayan leads partylist race

Meanwhile, in the partylist race, Akbayan still leads the field with 2,750,289 votes, based on partial unofficial results as of 3:12 p.m. on Tuesday.

Trailing Akbayan are Duterte Youth with 2,300,083 votes and Tingog with 1,788,063. The 4Ps Partylist is in fourth place with 1,435,027 votes, followed by ACT-CIS (1,222,092), Ako Bicol (1,061,250), and Uswag Ilonggo (772,616) are: Completing the top 12 partylists Solid North Party - 753,765 Trabaho 647,627 CIBAC 587,621 PPP-570,195 Senior Citizens Partylist 569,702 Based on Comelec's website, 97.32 percent of the election returns have been processed.