Akbayan, Duterte Youth lead party-list race

Metro Manila, Philippines - Akbayan and Duterte Youth are frontrunners during the first wave of partial, unofficial results for party-list groups in the House of Representatives.

As of 9:48 a.m., Akbayan was still at top with 2,204,072 votes, followed by Duterte Youth with 1,872,003 votes.

Lawyer Chel Diokno leads the nominees of Akbayan. With him are current representative Perci Cendaña, and Lumad rights champion Dadah Kiram Ismula.

Duterte Youth nominees are Drixie Mae Suarez Cardema, Berlin Baday Lingwa, and Ron Godfrey Waggawag Bawalan.

Here are the rest of the Top 15 party-list groups based on partial, unofficial results from the Commission on Elections transparency server data released by government-run PTV:

3. Tingog: 1,488,833

4. 4PS: 1,199,457

5. ACT-CIS: 992,230

6. Ako Bicol: 884,334

7. Uswag Ilongo: 655,428

8. Solid North Party: 633,746

9. Trabaho: 531,822

10. CIBAC: 471,585

11. PPP: 468,429

12. Senior Citizens: 463,211

13. Malasakit@Bayanihan: 462,411

14. ML: 438,100

15. 4K: 434,796

A party-list must receive at least 2 percent of the total votes cast to win a seat in the House of Representatives.

Party-list groups occupy 20 percent of the lower chamber, translating to 63 out of the 317 available seats.