Mar Roxas in the first wave of the election results (3 out of 212 clustered precincts) in Tacloban City only got 32 votes, getting the second to the lowest position among Otso Diretso candidates in the said place.
Meanwhile, Bam Aquino got the highest vote in Tacloban among Otso Diretso candidates, getting 166 votes, while Chel Diokno placed second with 97 votes.
Imee Marcos who’s a pro-government candidate led in Tacloban City, getting 528 votes, while Bong Go and Bato Dela Rosa reached second and third position.
The votes got by Roxas made some pro-Duterte bloggers believed that the people of Tacloban could still be thinking of the controversial actions of the former DILG Secretary in their place during Yolanda in 2013.
On April 23, Roxas visited Tacloban and tried to convince the voters to make his political comeback possible.
Here are the senatorial candidates reached the top 13 in Tacloban City.
