Congressional canvass for the Philippine presidential election, 2016
| Date | Scheduled start |
Actual start |
Ended | COCs canvassed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25 | 2:00 p.m. | 2:57 p.m. | 9:30 p.m. | 45 |
| May 26 | 2:00 p.m. | 2:27 p.m. | 10:00 p.m. | 68 |
| May 27 | 2:00 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | 7:16 p.m. | 53 |
The following is the official canvassing of votes by the Congress of the Philippines for the 2016 Philippine presidential and vice presidential election. The canvassing started on May 25, 2016 and ended 2 days later. This was the fastest congressional canvassing process in Philippine electoral history.
The Congress is mandated to declare a winner 30 days after the elections (June 8).
After voters had finished voting, the counting machines will then count the votes received by each candidate in each position. For positions elected on a national basis (president, vice president, senators and party-list representatives), the counting machine will then print an election return for that precinct, and will transmit the results to the municipal/city board of canvassers, Congress, Commission on Elections, the citizen's arm authorized by the commission, political parties, and others.
The city or municipality will then tally the votes for all positions and will issue two documents at its conclusion: a statement of votes where the votes obtained by candidates in each precinct in a city/municipality is stated; and a certificate of canvass (COC), a document in electronic and printed form containing the total votes in figures obtained by each candidate in the city or municipality. The city or municipal COC will either be sent electronically to Congress (if the city is an Independent city with its own legislative district) or to the provincial board of canvassers in which the process is repeated; this time the provincial COC will be sent to Congress.
Congress, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, will canvass the votes to determine who among the candidates are elected president and vice president.
In theory, all of the votes from the election returns when added must be equal to the votes canvassed by Congress coming from the city/provincial COCs.
The provincial/city board of canvassers will send an electronically transmitted COC to the Congress' Consolidation and Canvassing System (CCS) server, which was activated minutes after voting closed on May 9. Meanwhile, the manually counted and physically delivered COCs from the provincial and/or city board of canvassers will be sent first to the Senate then it will be brought to the Batasang Pambansa Complex, the home of the House of Representatives upon the convening of both the Senate and the House of Representatives in a joint session.
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