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Opinion polling (popularly known as surveys in the Philippines) for the 2010 Philippine presidential election is managed by two major polling firms: Social Weather Stations and Pulse Asia, and several minor polling firms. The polling firms conducted surveys both prior and after the deadline for filing of certificates of candidacies on December ...
Aquino had Manuel "Mar" Roxas II as his running mate for vice president, while Binay was the vice presidential candidate of Joseph Estrada, who was aiming to be elected president for a second time. The campaign was nonetheless successful as Aquino and Binay were elected as president and vice president of the Philippines. [4]
The 2010 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on Monday, May 10, 2010. The incumbent President of the Philippines , Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , was ineligible to seek re-election as per the 1987 Constitution .
On June 9, 2010, at the Batasang Pambansa, in Quezon City, the Congress of the Philippines proclaimed Aquino as the President-elect of the Philippines, [3] [41] following the 2010 election with 15,208,678 votes, [3] [42] while Jejomar Binay, the former mayor of Makati, was proclaimed as the Vice President-elect of the Philippines with ...
On August 1, 2009, former President Cory Aquino died due to cancer, [8] [9] and due to her death it made his son and Mar's campaign manager Noynoy being urged to run as president. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The party members also proposed that Roxas to slide down as vice presidential candidate to form a Noy-Mar. [ 12 ]
In November, after a September executive voting result of 42–5 through secret balloting, Teodoro was officially picked by his party as nominee for presidential election in 2010. [8] Teodoro picked actor, TV host, and former Makati Vice Mayor Edu Manzano as his running mate. [9] [10] [11]
The following is the official canvassing of votes by the Congress of the Philippines for the 2010 Philippine presidential and vice presidential election. The canvassing, originally scheduled to start on May 31, started on May 25, 2010, and ended on June 9, 2010. The Congress is mandated to declare a winner 30 days after the elections (June 9). [1]
The current Philippine constitution allows a president to serve for only one six-year term; however, former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo served for 9 years, 5 months, and 10 days (3,448 days) and 2 presidential terms because she took over the last three years of Joseph Estrada's administration when Estrada was ousted as the result of the Second EDSA Revolution.