Former Sen. Manny Pacquiao Fails To Enter Top 12 of 2025 Senatorial Election Result
MANNY PACQUIAO – The former Senator confirmed his return to his boxing career after he lost the 2025 Senatorial Race.
Pacquiao, a boxing champion-turned-politician, is one of the former senators who attempted for a Senate comeback. He was out from politics since 2022 when he lost to President Bongbong Marcos in the presidential race.
In October 2024, former Sen. Manny Pacquiao filed his candidacy for senator in the 2025 Elections. He was one of the candidates endorsed by Pres. Bongbong Marcos’ Alyansa Para Sa Pagbabago. The Marcos administration endorsed the following senatorial candidates:
- former Sen. Manny Pacquiao
- Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos
- Sen. Francis Tolentino
- Sen. Pia Cayetano
- Makati City Mayor Abby Binay
- Sen. Lito Lapid
- former Senator Panfilo Lacson
- Sen. Ramon ”Bong” Revilla Jr.
- Deputy Speaker Camille Villar
- former Senator Vicente Sotto III,
- former Social Welfare and Development Secretary Erwin Tulfo
Pres. Bongbong Marcos led the campaign for the Alyansa bets. He called on the Filipino people to vote for the candidates endorsed by the grand alliance and the administration for the continuity of the programs and projects that the government has already started.
However, only six (6) candidates of the Alyansa made it to the Top 12 based on the partial and unofficial result of the 2025 Senatorial Election. Here are the senatorial candidates who are currently in the Top 12 after 99.12% of the election returns has been transmitted based on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Media Server:
- Go, Christopher ‘Bong”
- Aquino, Bam
- Dela Rosa, Ronald “Bato”
- Tulfo, Erwin — Alyansa
- Pangilinan, Kiko
- Marcoleta, Rodante
- Lacson, Ping — Alyansa
- Sotto, Tito — Alyansa
- Cayetano, Pia — Alyansa
- Villar, Camille — Alyansa
- Lapid, Lito — Alyansa
- Marcos, Imee
Former Sen. Manny Pacquiao ranked 18th based on the partial and unofficial result of the election race. As of this writing, he earned 10,360,733 votes. Amid his election loss, the former Senator confirmed his return to his boxing career — four (4) years since he announced his retirement for the presidential race.
Based on a report on ABS-CBN News, former Sen. Manny Pacquiao is set to fight American boxer Mario Barrios in July 2025 for his WBC welterweight title. The match is set to be held in Las Vegas.
Furthermore, based on the report, the Pacquiao-Barrios fight aligns with the scheduled induction of the boxing champion-turned-politician into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in June. Prior to his upcoming fight with the 29-year-old boxer, Pacman lost to Cuban Yordenis Ugas for the WBA welterweight title in 2021 via a unanimous 12-round decision.
Despite his election loss and his return to boxing, Pacquiao assured that his fight and service will continue. Aside from Pres. Bongbong Marcos, former Vice Pres. Leni Robredo also endorsed Pacquiao for senator.