Incumbent mayors in southern Metro Manila prevail in polls

Most incumbent mayors in southern Metro Manila are set to serve another three-year term in office, with nearly all of them winning a landslide victory based on official results of the canvassing of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

In Muntinlupa City, re-electionist Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi obtained a landslide victory along with the majority of his party's slate in the local election.

Fresnedi was proclaimed as the Muntinlupa's chief executive by Comelec Election Officer Atty. Ronald Sindo, Board of Canvassers Atty. Silverio Garing and City Prosecutor Aileen Marie Gutierrez on Tuesday in the City Council's Session Hall.

Fresnedi garnered 125,250 votes in the official tally by Comelec, leading by 58,000 votes against rival mayoralty candidate Aldrin San Pedro.

Liberal Party bets Ruffy Biazon for the congressional race and Celso Dioko for vice-mayoralty post also won with 135,470 and 103,142 votes, respectively.

In Pasay City, incumbent mayor Antonino "Tony Calixto" of Liberal Part (LP) was a runaway winner with 113,218 votes, followed by Jose Antonio Roxas of United Nationalist Alliance, 42,441 and Jorge Del Rosario of PDP-Laban at 10,552.

For the city's vice mayor post, Noel Del Rosario (LP) has 94,362 defeated incumbent vice mayor Marlon Pesebre of Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) with 81,389 votes.

Calixto sister, incumbent congresswoman Emi Calixto- Rubiano retained her post with 140,141 defeated her opponent Sonny Quial who only got 30,679 votes.

In Taguig City, unopposed last termer Mayor Lani Cayetano, was proclaimed on Tuesday.

Cayetano garnered a total votes of 225,496 while Vice Mayor Ricardo Cruz Jr. was also re-elected with 222,172 votes.

Cayetano's sister-in-law, Senator Pia Cayetano is set to serve as Taguig second district representative with 94,228 votes and incumbent District 1 Representative Arnel Cerafica with 102,954 votes won against Gloria Cabrera with 11,051 votes.

Also, Las Pinas City elected the wife of incumbent mayor Vergel "Nene" Aguilar, Imelda Aguilar, who garnered a sum of 183,511 votes defeating four other mayoralty candidates.

Aguilar assured city residents that she will continue to pursue the programs and projects and provide the basic services like free education, free hospitalization among others initiated by her husband.

Louie Bustamante retains his vice mayoralty post beating Louie Casimiro with 155,668 votes.

Meanwhile, Mark Villar was proclaimed on Tuesday as he was re-elected for the third time as the representative of Las Pinas.

Villar garnered 174,533 votes or 86.5 percent of the results, over two other independent candidates.

In Parañaque City, incumbent Mayor Edwin Olivarez emerged victorious in his re-election bid.

Olivarez, who is set serve his second term, vowed to continue and finish all the projects he started during his term.

He added that three years of serving the people is too short.

The partial and unofficial results for the city 's vice mayor post race shows Jose Enrico Golez garnered a total vote of 118,928 while his opponent incumbent Barangay chairman in BF, Jeremy Marquez garnered a total of 93,574 votes.

Marquez is a son of former city mayor and actor-comedian Joey Marquez.

For the city's first district representative, Eric Olivarez had a wide margin of votes 79,351 against independent candidate Vic Celeridad with only 2,230 votes while for the Second District – incumbent Congressman Gus Tambunting garnered a total votes of 63,642 against his rival, Roilo Golez with 60,804.

In Makati City, the Binays regained the city's leadership after Vice President Jejomar Binay daughter, Congresswoman Abby Binay was proclaimed as the city's new mayor early morning Tuesday.

Binay got a total votes of 153,487 against incumbent acting mayor Kid Peña who has 137,803 votes.

On the other hand, Binay's running mate, Monique Lagmadeo also got the vice mayor post with 166,450 votes.

Leading the congressional race is Binay's husband, Luis Campos with 74,205, who is set to replace his wife as the second district of Makati representative.

Abby Binay ran for the mayor post after the Office of the Ombudsman ordered the dismissal of her brother, former Mayor Jejomar Erwin "Junjun" Binay in October 2015 for being charged of "grave misconduct and dishonesty" in connection to the alleged overpricing of the Makati City Hall parking building project.

On the other hand, the lone municipality of Pateros elected Miguel Ponce as mayor with 9,760 votes beating his rival Daisy Reyes who garnered a sum of 8,444 votes and four others. Gerald German with 12,533 votes notched the vice mayor post defeating three other vice mayoralty bets. (PNA)