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After over 2 decades, Ben Abalos returns as Mandaluyong mayo

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 Arra Perez, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Benjamin Abalos Sr. campaigns for his mayoral bid in Mandaluyong City on March 26, 2022. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/file" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/05/10/20220326-abalos-ben-sr-campaign-gc-2097.jpg"/><figcaption>Benjamin Abalos Sr. campaigns for his mayoral bid in Mandaluyong City on March 26, 2022. <em>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/file</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>After over 2 decades, former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Benjamin Abalos is returning as Mandaluyong mayor via a landslide victory in the May 9 elections. </p><p>He was proclaimed winner on Tuesday.</p><p>He beat his opponent Florencio Solomon, who got 24,457 votes, while 86-year-old Abalos garnered 136,849 votes.</p><p>Abalos was also the mayor of Mandaluyong from 1986 to 1987, upon the lifting of martial law, and from 1988 to 1998.</p><p>Abalos&#x27; daughter-in-law, outgoing Mandaluyong Mayor Menchie Abalos, has also been proclaimed as the city&#x27;s vice mayor.</p><p>Menchie ran unopposed, with 148,690 votes.</p><p>She is the wife of former MMDA chairman Benhur Abalos, who also served as Mandaluyong mayor from 1998 to 2004, and from 2007 to 2016.</p><p>Meanwhile, Rep. Boyet Gonzales won his reelection bid in the lone congressional district of Mandaluyong, with 131,794 votes.</p><p>The Abalos&#x27; slate secured 10 out of 12 spots in the city council (six for each district), including Benjie Abalos, son of Benhur and Menchie, and Botong Gonzales Cuejilo, nephew of Gonzales.</p><div><em>For live election results, see <a href="https://halalanresults.abs-cbn.com/">ABS-CBN News Halalan results</a>.</em></div><div><em>For other updates, visit ABS-CBN News&#x27; live blog <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/09/22/halalan-2022-abs-cbn-news-updates-on-philippine-elections">here</a>. </em><br/> </div>

After over 2 decades, Ben Abalos returns as Mandaluyong mayor by landslide victory.

After over 2 decades, Ben Abalos returns as Mandaluyong mayo

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After over 2 decades, Ben Abalos returns as Mandaluyong mayo

Arra Perez,

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Published May 10, 2022 07:51 PM PHT

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