Monday, April 22, 2013

Correcting Historical Errors 1: The Election Results from 2004


This is the top portion of the page. I added the two paragraphs below: 

The only post-People Power Revolution presidential election where the winner of the Corridor failed to win nationally was Fernando Poe, Jr. in 2004. In the thirteen provinces/regions of the corridor (Aurora, BataanBatangasBulacanCaviteLagunaMetro ManilaNueva EcijaPampangaQuezonRizalTarlac and Zambales), Poe won 40.8% of the total votes cast, or 4.65 million votes, 1.32 million more than did Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who won 29.2% or 3.33 million. However, GMA more than made up for this deficit in the Visayas. In the 15 provinces (AklanAntiqueBiliran,BoholCapizCebuEastern SamarGuimarasIloiloLeyteNegros OccidentalNegros OrientalNorthern SamarSamar and Southern Leyte) of WesternCentral and Eastern Visayas, GMA won a staggering 61% or 3.6 million votes, versus only 27% or 1.6 million votes, an insurmountable wave of more than 2 million votes. (In Cebu alone, GMA won just under a million votes or 79.9% of the total, opening up an 842,531 vote lead.) Adding the Visayas results to the Corridor tally, GMA led with 697,039 votes.
Alleged cheating and vote-tampering in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao does not negate this result. Official results from the five provinces of ARMM plus Sultan Kudarat and Isabela CityBasilan, show that GMA won 685,076 votes there. Even if GMA did not win a single vote in ARMM and all of these 685,076 votes were given to Poe, it would still fall short of the 697,000-vote defeat of the Corridor by the Visayas. (From Wikipedia)