The candidates were Jun Omar Cabanayan Ebdane of the Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka and son of Zambales Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane; Rica Victoria Villanueva Diaz-Aram-bulo of the Nationalista Party; former Zambales vice governor Cheryl Poynter Deloso-Montalla of the Liberal Party; and Wilfredo Paul Dantes Pangan and Alfred Sebarrotin, both independent bets.
The special election was called to find a replacement for the late congressman Antonio Diaz who died last August 2010.
It will be done manually and not automated since there is no need to consolidate the votes in the national level. According to Comelec records, there are a total of 200,813 voters in 2,108 established and clustered precincts in the 10 cities and municipalities comprising Zambales’ second district. Voting is from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The son of Zambales Governor Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. won Saturday’s special congressional elections for the province’s second district.
Jun Omar Ebdane,the former provincial administrator and candidate of the Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka, was proclaimed winner by the board of canvassers at around 11:15 a.m. on Sunday. He garnered 62,867 votes. The runnerup was former vice governor Cherly Deloso-Montallo of the Liberal Party, who got 56,945 votes.
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