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Duterte bets top Dubai poll count

DUBAI: In what is widely seen as an affirmation of the Duterte Administration, nine of the senatorial candidates with the president’s endorsement made it to the Magic 12 at the poll count in Dubai.

With 55.98% or 15,947 of the 28,487 votes cast in Dubai counted, here are the Magic 12 based on partial, unofficial results as of 10pm last night: Bato with 12,774, Go at 12,268, Marcos, 11,662, Cayetano at 11,326, Willie Ong, 11,147, Villar at 10,073, Tolentino at 9,304, Angara at 7,071, Chong at 6,903, Poe at 6,007, Pimentel at 5,697 and Alunan at 4,829.

The number of votes cast was 13.57% of the total number of registered voters which was 209,862.

In the 2013 midterm elections, the turnout 6.35 % or 3,545 of the 55,842 voters who cast their ballots.

Duterte, who has support from overseas Filipino workers across the world, won by a huge landslide in the UAE during the 2016 presidential elections.

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