Philippine lawmakers proclaimed Benigno Aquino III as the country's 15th president on Wednesday, with the opposition senator winning by the widest election margin since democracy was restored via a people power revolt in 1986.
Aquino, a 50-year-old bachelor and only son of the Philippines' revered democracy leader Cory Aquino, bagged 15.2 million votes, or 42 percent, of 36.3 million votes cast for president, based on the official Congress tally.
He won by more than 5.7 million votes over his nearest rival, former President Joseph Estrada, in the country's first nationwide automated vote count.
Aquino won by a margin of 5,720,841 over closest rival, ex-President Joseph Estrada of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino. Estrada received 9,487,837 votes.
Binay’s votes totaled 14,645,574, which is 727,084 over the votes received by closet rival and Aquino’s runningmate, Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, who got 13,918,490.
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