Rodante Marcoleta Wants Top 6 Senate Candidates Proclaimed Early

Cong. Rodante Marcoleta Files Petition before the COMELEC over Senate Election Top 6 Proclamation

RODANTE MARCOLETA – The Congressman filed a petition before the COMELEC seeking for an early proclamation of the Top 6 senate candidates.

The 2025 Midterm Elections are over. Both local and national polls were held. While the board of canvassers in the different cities, municipalities, and provinces in the Philippines have already proclaimed the winners in the local elections, the counting for the senatorial election is ongoing.

📷: Philippine News Agency

In the partial and unofficial results of the 2025 Senatorial Race, Senator Bong Go topped the list. Returning senators Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan making it to the Top 12 also delighted former Vice President Leni Robredo. Here are the Top 12 based on the partial and unofficial results:

Go, Christopher ‘Bong”
Aquino, Bam
Dela Rosa, Ronald “Bato”
Tulfo, Erwin
Pangilinan, Kiko
Marcoleta, Rodante
Lacson, Ping
Sotto, Tito
Cayetano, Pia
Villar, Camille
Lapid, Lito
Marcos, Imee

Five (5) candidates from the PDP-Laban of former Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte made it to the Top 12 of the partial and unofficial senatorial race results — Go, Dela Rosa, Marcoleta, Villar, and Marcos. The Duterte siblings campaigned fervently for the senatorial bets of the PDP-Laban.

Recently, amid the ongoing counting of votes in the 2025 Senatorial Election, Sagip Party-list Representative Rodante Marcoleta filed a petition before the Commission on Elections. Based on a report on GMA News, he asked the COMELEC for the early proclamation of the Top 6 senate candidates based on the unofficial results.

Cong. Rodante Marcoleta earned a total of 14,910,218 votes after 97.36% of the election returns have been transmitted. He is followed by former Sen. Ping Lacson with 14,857,071 votes. Based on the report, in his petition, he cited his votes after 97.23% of the ERs was transmitted.

Marcoleta stated that there is allegedly a statistical improbability that the 7th to 12th Senate candidates will no longer affect the standing of the first six candidates. Based on the report, he requested the COMELEC to make the proclamation of the Top 6.

“Hence, may we respectfully pray that, should this Honorable Commission determine that it is statistically improbable for the rankings of the leading senatorial candidates to be altered based on the official canvass returns, it should consider allowing the early proclamation of the top-ranking Senators whose positions can no longer be reasonably contested,” he stated in his petition.

The COMELEC has yet to speak on the request of Cong. Rodante Marcoleta. Amid five (5) candidates in the Top 12 being their allies, Vice Pres. Sara Duterte is disappointed over the Senate Election results and invited the Filipinos to build a powerful opposition.