section_path: Results
section_name: Results
paragraph_text: Results
  
  COMELEC noted a total of 18,320 positions up for election in 2025. The election will determine the composition of the 20th Congress of the Philippines, set to take office on June 30, 2025, for a term ending on June 30, 2028.
  
  The commission announced a voter turnout of 81.65% or 55,874,700 out of the 68,431,965 voters, the highest in the history of mid-term elections in the Philippines. COMELEC chairman George Garcia remarked that this was an increase from around 75% turnout in the 2019 elections.
  
  On election night, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) had not received transmitted election returns, although the COMELEC had received theirs. At 10:21 p.m., the PPCRV received data and that the first results were shared to the public. Later that night, the COMELEC had already received 98% of election returns, but the PPCRV had only received 79.9%. Initial data received by the PPCRV showed that their tally and the data did not match. By around 1:00 a.m. early morning after election day, PPCRV director William Yu said that the COMELEC informed them that "they will be revising the dump to remove the duplicates". Later in the day, the PPCRV were able to gain access to the rest of the data. The COMELEC denied any irregularity, faulting the media when receiving the data, as their software did not filter duplicate entries, as explained by Garcia.
  
  COMELEC, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, first convened on May 13, a day after the election, to canvass the local absentee voting results. The commission canvassed 159 certificates of canvass by Wednesday after the election, in what was said to be record speed, leaving just sixteen certificates. They finished canvassing the votes on May 15, with the commission announcing a voter turnout of 57,350,958 or 82% of the electorate.