Partial election returns give Aquino, Binay early leads

(Update 3 - May 11 1:43 a.m.) With nearly two-thirds of the election returns in, Liberal Party standard-bearer Benigno C. Aquino III and Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino vice-presidential bet Jejomar Binay maintained their leads over their rivals, based on a partial and unofficial consolidation of data from election returns as of 12:47 a.m. Tuesday. The unofficial data culled by GMA News from 76,347 precincts nationwide showed Aquino, son of Philippine democracy icons Corazon C. Aquino and Benigno Aquino Jr., garnering 9,163,255 votes. Binay meanwhile accumulated 8,953,916 votes. Comelec official count Aquino also leads in the partial official count of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as of 11:11 p.m., which showed him with 8,958,396 votes (40.58 percent) over former President Joseph Estrada (Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino) with 5,678,821 votes (25.72 percent), Sen. Manny Villar Jr. (Nacionalista Party) with 3,058,942 votes (13.8 percent) and Gilberto Teodoro Jr. (Lakas-Kampi-CMD) with 2,347,274 votes (10.63 percent). Next came Eddie Villanueva (Bangon Pilipinas) and Sen. Richard Gordon (Bagumbayan) with 684,722 (3.10 percent) and 340,447 (1.54 percent). Independent candidates Senator Jamby Madrigal and Nicanor Perlas, as well as Ang Kapatiran Party presidential bet JC delos Reyes got less than one percent of the total votes, according to Comelec data. Binay, Mar in tight race In the vice presidential race, Binay, Estrada's running mate, got 8,935,188 votes (40.48 percent). Liberal Party's Sen. Mar Roxas came in a close second with 8,153,093 votes (36.93 percent), according to the Comelec. Villar's running-mate Sen. Loren Legarda came in third with 2,297,058 votes (10.40 percent), followed by Bayani Fernando with 641,839 votes (2.90 percent), and Lakas-Kampi-CMD's Eduardo Manzano with 394,308 votes (1.78 percent). Comelec data also showed the three remaining vice-presidential hopefuls — Bangon Pilipinas’ Perfecto Yasay, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL)’s Jay Sonza and Ang Kapatiran Party’s Dominador Chipeco Jr. — with less than one percent of the votes. The figures represent 57 percent of precincts nationwide, the first official batch transmitted to Comelec servers, as of 11:11 p.m. 75 percent voter turnout The Comelec said around 75 percent of all registered voters cast their votes on Monday. The figure translates to about 37.5 million of the 50 million registered voters for the May polls, according to Comelec chairman Jose Melo. “I would have been very happy with a little over 50 percent, but we have here 75 percent. I am very, very happy," Melo said. The Comelec is expected to give the next update at 6 a.m. Tuesday, complete with the breakdown of votes per province. Results of the random manual audit of 10 percent of the precincts chosen to have their votes manually counted for counterchecking with the automated results will also be released Tuesday, according to the Comelec. GMA News tally The GMA tally may be viewed here. As of 12:47 a.m. Tuesday, the GMA Network's partial and unofficial tally showed the following results: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 1 AQUINO, Benigno Simeon III C. 9,934,426 2 ESTRADA EJERCITO, Joseph M. 6,289,206 3 VILLAR, Manuel Jr B. 3,400,818 4 TEODORO, Gilberto Jr. C. 2,600,967 5 VILLANUEVA, Eduardo C. 753,749 6 GORDON, Richard J. 372,402 7 ACOSTA, Vetellano S. 107,325 8 PERLAS, Jesus Nicanor P. 33,079 9 MADRIGAL, Jamby A. 29,972 10 DE LOS REYES, John Carlos G. 27,451 VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 1 BINAY, Jejomar C. 9,525,008 2 ROXAS, Manuel A. 8,704,863 3 LEGARDA, Loren B. 2,451,178 4 FERNANDO, Bayani F. 683,597 5 MANZANO, Eduardo B. 423,164 6 YASAY, Perfecto R. 235,040 7 SONZA, Jose Y. 39,559 8 CHIPECO, Dominador Jr F. 29,611 SENATORIAL CANDIDATES (top 20 only) 1 BONG REVILLA, Ramon, Jr. B. 12,416,821 2 ESTRADA, Jinggoy E. 12,365,455 3 DEFENSOR SANTIAGO, Miriam P. 11,385,123 4 DRILON, Franklin M. 10,442,678 5 ENRILE, Juan Ponce -. 10,326,968 6 CAYETANO, Pilar Juliana S. 9,070,459 7 MARCOS, Ferdinand, Jr. R. 8,888,424 8 RECTO, Ralph G. 8,101,335 9 SOTTO , Vicente III C. 7,927,318 10 OSMEÑA, Sergio III D. 7,554,944 11 LAPID, Manuel M. 6,985,612 12 GUINGONA , Teofisto III D. 6,786,418 13 HONTIVEROS-BARAQUEL, Ana 6,135,699 14 BIAZON, Rozzano Rufino B. 5,739,118 15 DE VENECIA, Jose III P. 5,511,528 16 REMULLA, Gilbert Cesar C. 5,011,835 17 LIM, Danilo D. 4,902,305 18 ROCO, Sonia M. 4,445,310 19 QUERUBIN, Ariel O. 4,366,425 20 PIMENTEL, Gwendolyn D. 4,054,533 Voting in the country's first automated elections officially closed at 7 p.m. Monday in 76,347 clustered precincts nationwide, although the voting centers were allowed to process voters that are already in the vicinity by 7 a.m. Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said the bulk of the results are expected at about 3 a.m. on Tuesday. — with a report from Kimberly Jane Tan and Andreo Calonzo, VS/YA/JV/RSJ, GMANews.TV