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Partial #HalalanResults: Lucy Torres set for comfortable win in race for Leyte rep

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/entertainment/05/14/lucy1.jpg"/><figcaption>With 98 percent of the votes counted, Lucy Torres-Gomez has an insurmountable lead against her opponent. <em>Torres-Gomez&#x27;s Instagram</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Lucy Torres-Gomez is on her way to a comfortable win in her bid for reelection as representative of the 4th district of Leyte, based on partial, unofficial results posted Tuesday.</p><p>The counts showed Torres-Gomez (PDP Laban) ahead of her political rival, Winnie Codilla (Lakas), by a wide margin of more than 120,000 votes. She had 175,191 votes as of 2:19 a.m. from 1,737 of the total 1,757 clustered precincts against Codilla&#x27;s 50,255.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/entertainment/05/14/lucy2.jpg"/><figcaption>A look at the difference in votes of Lucy Torres-Gomez and her rival, Winnie Codilla. <a href="https://halalanresults.abs-cbn.com/local/leyte?contest=00737004" target="_blank">Halalan 2019</a> website</figcaption></figure></div><p>Her husband, Richard Gomez, is similarly in a winning position over a member of the Codilla family. Gomez, who is running for reelection as the incumbent mayor of Ormoc City, had 75,676 votes. </p><p>His opponent, Eric Codilla, had 28,969 votes from the city&#x27;s total 198 clustered precincts. </p><p>Click <a href="https://halalanresults.abs-cbn.com/" target="_blank">here</a> for ABS-CBN&#x27;s election results: https://halalanresults.abs-cbn.com/</p>

<p>Torres-Gomez is on her way to a comfortable win in her bid for reelection as representative of the 4th district of Leyte.</p>

Torres-Gomez is on her way to a comfortable win in her bid for reelection as representative of the 4th district of Leyte.