“Ferdinand Marcos Jr. obtained the highest number of votes by any candidate in Philippine history.”
What Vera Files found
While Marcos did garner the highest number of votes in Philippine electoral history, his share of the vote (58.7%) in the May 2022 balloting is only the country’s third highest vote percentage, next to former presidents Manuel L. Quezon (67.9%, 1935) and Ramon Magsaysay (68.9%, 1953).
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In short
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. made this claim around 13 November 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 15 November 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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