Almost all voted for Noynoy in his precinct

TARLAC CITY, Tarlac – Almost all votes for president cast in Sen. Benigno “Noynoy" Aquino III’s precinct in Tarlac went for him. Figures transmitted by the board of election inspectors (BEIs) showed that 668 of the 770 voters at the Central Azucarrera de Tarlac Elementary School picked Aquino as their presidential candidate.

Among the voters in the Central Azucarrera de Tarlac elementary school were workers of sugar mill Central Azucarrera de Tarlac, located inside the Cojuangco family-owned Hacienda Luisita. [See: Luisita sugar workers among first to vote in Noynoy's polling precinct] Former president Joseph Estrada came in at a distant second with 32 votes, followed bye Senator Manuel Villar Jr. and administration bet Gilberto Teodoro Jr., who got 21 votes each. Teodoro, Aquino's cousin, also hails from Tarlac. He was congressman of the province’s first district from 1998 to 2007, while Aquino was congressman of the second district during the same period. The votes at Aquino's polling precinct were transmitted past 10 p.m. because problems with the Precinct Count Optical Scan machine earlier in the day delayed the counting of the ballots. Aquino lined up for four hours before he could vote. [See: After four hours in line, Aquino finally votes] - Johanna Camille Sisante/KBK, GMANews.TV