Incumbent Tagbilaran City mayor wins by a landslide
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — Voters here gave incumbent Mayor John Geesnell “Baba” Yap II a landslide victory on Monday.
Yap garnered 43,924 votes against his aunt, Dr. Sharleen Lim who had 5,770 votes.
Lim is married to former Tagbilaran mayor Dan Lim, older brother of Yap’s mother.
“I would like to thank the Tagbilaranons for the opportunity to serve them for 3 more years under the ‘asenso (progress) pa more’ theme,” said Yap. “Rest assured that the consultative and participative style of governance will continue.”
Lim also thanked her supporters. “My slate and I may have lost this battle, but it is with heads up high and big smiles that we can say we fought fair and square because to the end, we did not resort to vote-buying,” she said in a post on Facebook.
Vice Mayor Jose Antonio Veloso got a fresh term with 34,318 votes and defeated his opponent, Barangay Poblacion 1 Captain Arlene Karaan, who had 11,652 votes.
There were 65,698 registered voters in Tagbilaran but only 51,982 voted. (Editor: Leti Boniol)
