17,888 posts up for grabs CBCP urges Filipinos to pray for peaceful, clean elections By LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO

17,888 posts up for grabs

CBCP urges Filipinos to pray for peaceful, clean elections

By LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO

May 9, 2010, 5:13pm

A total of 50.8-million voters are expected to troop to 76,340 polling precincts Monday to elect government leaders, including the successor of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, in the country’s first automated national and local elections.

Up for grabs are a total of 17,888 elective positions – one president, one vice president, 12 senators, 222 members of the House of Representatives, 80 governors, 80 governors, 762 provincial board members, 120 city mayors, 120 city vice mayors, 1,514 municipal mayors, 1,514 vice mayors, 1,346 city councilors, and 12,116 municipal councilors.

Also to be contested by 187 partylist groups are some 45 available seats in the Lower House.
The electorate, however, may need to go to their assigned voting precinct before 7 a.m. since some of the precincts will have 1,000 voters due to the clustering of precincts.... MORE  

Source:  The Manila Bulletin

URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/256656/17888-posts-grabs