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Philippine presidential election, 1986
February 7, 1986
	Incumbent President; Ferdinand E. Marcos; KBL President-elect; Corazon C. Aquino; UNIDO

The Presidential and Vice-Presidential snap elections were held on February 7, 1986 in the Philippines. President Ferdinand E. Marcos and former Foreign Affairs Minister and Senate President Arturo Tolentino were proclaimed winners by the Batasang Pambansa as well as the official election canvasser, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) thus granting President Marcos another six-year term as President of the Philippines. The electoral exercise was marred by alleged electoral fraud from both sides of the political fence as well as violence. Marcos and Tolentino won by over a million votes according to the COMELEC. The opposition headed by Sen. Benigno Aquino, Jr.'s widow Corazon C. Aquino and former senator Salvador Laurel refused to accept the allegedly fraudulent result. Due to the reports of fraud, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a statement condemning the elections, the United States Senate passed a resolution stating the same. This chain of events eventually led to the resignation of Marcos' Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and military vice-chief Fidel Ramos, who then decided to seclude themselves in the military and police headquarters at Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame respectively, leading to the People Power Revolution which precipitated Marcos's departure from the country into exile in Hawaii. On March 24, 1986, the Regular Batasang Pambansa made a people's resolution signed by 150 lawmakers which nullified the election returns that proclaimed that Marcos and Tolentino as the winners. Instead, it mandated that Aquino and Laurel were the real winners of the snap elections.

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Final Official Parliamentary Canvass (Nullified on March 24, 1986)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Ferdinand E. Marcos	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan	10,807,197	53.62%
Corazon C. Aquino	United Nationalists Democratic Organizations (UNIDO)- LABAN	9,291,761	46.10%
Reuben Canoy	Social Democratic Party	34,041	0.17%
Narciso Padilla	Movement for Truth, Order and Righteousness	23,652	0.12%
Total:		20,156,651	100.0%

NAMFREL Tally

Candidate	Party	Votes
Corazon C. Aquino	United Nationalists Democratic Organizations (UNIDO)- LABAN	7,835,070
Ferdinand E. Marcos	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan	7,053,068

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Final Official Parliamentary Canvass (Nullified on March 24, 1986)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Arturo M. Tolentino	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan	10,134,130	50.65%
Salvador H. Laurel	United Nationalists Democratic Organizations (UNIDO)-LABAN	9,173,105	45.85%
Eva Estrada-Kalaw	Liberal Party (Kalaw Wing)	662,185	3.31%
Roger Arienda	Movement for Truth, Order and Righteousness	35,974	0.18%
Total:		20,053,394	100.0%

NAMFREL Tally

Candidate	Party	Votes
Salvador H. Laurel	United Nationalists Democratic Organizations (UNIDO)-LABAN	7,441,313
Arturo M. Tolentino	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan	6,613,507

[edit] Nullification of COMELEC final tally

The COMELEC final tally showed that Marcos won by twice Aquino's margin in the NAMFREL tally (roughly 1.6 million), and also had Tolentino winning over Laurel. This alleged fraudulent outcome would eventually lead to the People Power Revolution which ousted President Ferdinand Marcos and installed Corazon Aquino as president. It only changed when the Regular Batasang Pambansa declared on March 24, 1986 that Aquino and Laurel won the elections and admitted that Marcos's lawmakers tampered the official COMELEC Canvass at the PICC and the Batasang Pambansa to make sure Marcos and Tolentino won the elections.

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