Extended

At about noon today, 10 May 2010, COMELEC spokesman James Jimenez on Twitter (@jabjimenez) and on television announced that voting is extended to 7 pm from the original schedule of 7am to 6pm.

Quezon City, Congressional District 2: Sample Ballot and other interesting data

Barangays (from Wikipedia)

• Apolonio Samson (Balintawak)
• Baesa (Charlatan)
• Bagbag (Bagbag Novaliches)
• Bagong Silangan
• Balongbato (Camachile)
• Batasan Hills
• Capri
• Commonwealth
• Culiat (Muslim Village)
• Fairview
• Greater Lagro (Lagro)
• Gulod (Gulod Novaliches)
• Holy Spirit
• Kaligayahan
• Nagkaisang Nayon (General Luis)
• New Era (Iglesia ni Cristo Central)
• North Fairview
• Novaliches Proper (Novaliches Bayan)
• Pasong Putik (SM Fairview)
• Pasong Tamo (Marivic Co Pilar Village)
• Payatas
• San Agustin (San Agustin)
• San Bartolome (San Bartolome Novaliches)
• Sangandaan (Project 8 / Sangandaan)
• Sauyo
• Santa Lucia
• Santa Monica (Sta. Monica Novaliches)
• Talipapa (Talipapa Novaliches)
• Tandang Sora
• Unang Sigaw (Balintawak)
• *Novaliches Reservoir(Undeclared barangay) (La Mesa Watershed)

Stats (Number: 2010-60, Date Released February 18, 2010, NSO)

Interesting data:

• The population of Quezon City is about 2.6M as of 2007
• Quezon City has 142 barangays, the largest of which is Brgy. Commonwealth with almost 200,000 people. Graph below shows the Top Ten QC barangays, all of which fall under District 2.

• 52.6% of Quezon City's population of voting age (18 and over) is female.
• "Females outnumber males in all categories of marital status"
• "More females had attained higher levels of education"
• "54.6% with academic degrees, 54.9 with post-baccalaureate courses"

No. of Candidates for May 10, 2010 Based on the COMELEC sample ballot below.

(NOTE: Clicking on image will open up a PDF download link from my blog "ideography.wordpress.com" because I can't upload the format on Blogspot and the COMELEC website has been slow.)

• Congressional - 11 / Mayor - 9 / Vice Mayor - 9 /  City Council (aka Sangguniang Panlunsod) - 44

DO NOT OVERVOTE PER CATEGORY. Do NOT shade BEYOND the oval. VOTE WISELY.

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Sources:
- QC map was based on the Quezon City map from wapedia.mobi
- Charts, graphs and statistics entries are from the National Statistics Office web site
- Sample ballot above and the PDF download was emailed to me courtesy of cybernotebook.

...the game has really begun

At 12:01 am, 09 February 2010, the campaign period for the national positions for the Philippines' elections opened not with a bang but with a whimper — at least in my neighborhood.

This is a Commission on Elections (COMELEC)-designated date in which the allowed campaigning starting today, up to May 8, 2010, are for those running for President, Vice President, Senators and Party-List Representatives.

With some late releases of guidelines and regulations, attendance to forums and debates by candidates, monitoring surveys and other such campaign activities, political party staff and volunteers are probably all over themselves especially in the past 12 hours of Monday running up to the official start of the campaign period.

As I write this, there hasn't been any hushed, overnight group action in the streets so far, unlike in past campaign periods when service vehicles would stop by each coconut tree by our fence, unload a ladder and have a man or two hammer away in the still of night to clandestinely dress up the helpless trees with campaign materials or simply try to mess up others' property without as much as a peep of simple courtesy.

And so, elections are here, Philippine-style. We exercise America's gift of democracy, Philippine-style. This is where all the campaign spending matters.

REF:
Download COMELEC Resolution 8758 (PDF) here.