section_path: Results
section_name: Results
paragraph_text: Results
  
  The Commission on Elections (COMELEC), sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) expected to proclaim the winners at least a week after election. The NBOC first convened on May 13, a day after the election, to canvass the local absentee voting results. Rodante Marcoleta called on to the COMELEC to make a partial proclamation of at least then top six candidates, which the commission refused, maintaining that it will proclaim all twelve winners together by Saturday after the election at the earliest. The commission canvassed 159 certificates of canvass by Wednesday after the election, on what was said to be record speed, leaving just 16 certificates. On May 15, the NBOC finished canvassing the votes. The winning senators were proclaimed on May 17, with all candidates except for Francis Pangilinan attending.
  
  The Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas secured six seats. None of their candidates cracked the top three, with Erwin Tulfo finishing at fourth place. The sixth Alyansa candidate, Camille Villar, was also added as a guest candidate by the DuterTen. For the DuterTen ticket, Bong Go, Marcoleta and Ronald dela Rosa won, with Go topping the nationwide vote. Marcoleta relied on the Duterte stronghold of Mindanao, being in the top six in at least three provinces there. Both candidates in the KiBam ticket won, with Bam Aquino ranking second and Pangilinan fifth. Aquino emerged as the topnotcher in at least 23 provinces, mostly in Luzon, while Pangilinan was in the top six in at least 23 provinces. Imee Marcos, also a guest candidate of the DuterTen, clinched the last spot in the top 12, based primarily on voters from the Solid North or from the Ilocano heartland.
  
  Five senators, Go, dela Rosa, Cayetano, Lapid, and Marcos, successfully defended their seats. Meanwhile, four are returning to the Senate (Aquino, Pangilinan, Lacson, and Sotto), while three are neophytes that were serving out the remainder of their terms as House representatives (Tulfo, Marcoleta, and Villar). Sotto was elected for a fifth senatorial term, the first Filipino senator to have done so. Incumbent senators Bong Revilla and Francis Tolentino failed to defend their seats, placing 14th and 25th, respectively.