It’s final: Comelec logs highest voter turnout for midterm polls

A voter shades the circle of her chosen candidates in this file photo. Comelec file photo

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has logged the highest voter turnout for midterm election in Philippine history at 82.20%.

Comelec on Friday said that this figure is the official and final voter turnout based on the final canvas report of the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC), including the local absentee voting and registered overseas voting.

This represents 57,350,968 out of 69,673,653 registered voters.

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The poll body said that this turnout comes second after the 84.10% voter turnout in the 2022 national and local elections where over 55 million voters out of 65 million registered voters cast their votes.

Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia on Thursday initially said that the total number of votes cast for the May 2025 elections was at 81.65%, representing 55,874,700 votes cast.

The NBOC finished canvassing all the certificates of canvass (COCs) from 64 Philippine posts abroad, 110 provinces, cities, municipalities, and districts in the country, and one from the local absentee voting in three days, from May 13-15. This is the fastest canvassing in the poll body’s history.

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The COCs are the final and official count of votes for the senatorial and party-list race.

The winning 12 senatorial candidates are set to be proclaimed on Saturday, 3 p.m. at the Manila Hotel Tent City. /jpv