Ike Ponce

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Ike Ponce
Pateros Mayor Miguel "Ike" Ponce III.jpg
Mayor of Pateros
Assumed office
June 30, 2016
Preceded byJoey Medina
Personal details
Born
Miguel Ponce III

(1959-06-15) June 15, 1959 (age 65)
Metro Manila, Philippines
Political party Aksyon (2021–present)
Other political
affiliations
OccupationPolitician

Miguel "Ike" Ponce III (June 15, 1959) is a Filipino politician currently serving as Mayor of Pateros since 2016.

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Political career

Ponce ran for mayor in 2001 but lost to Rosendo Capco, the son of then-mayor Jose "Pepe" Capco, Jr., he ran again for a second attempt in 2013 under the Liberal Party but lost again, this time to reelectionist Joey Medina. [1]

In 2016, with incumbent vice mayor Gerald German as his running mate, he finally won the election. [2] [3] [4] In 2019, he run for his second term with German again as his running mate, and they won again. [5] [6]

In 2022, while running for a third-term, he tapped John Peter Marzan as his running mate, as German was now term-limited. He also supported the presidential run of another metro Mayor Isko Moreno. [7] Ponce got his third and final term as mayor, [8] as he overwhelmingly defeated his opponent, Marilyn Chiong. [9] He won in a landslide election to Chiong with a margin of 25,757 votes. [10]

Electoral performance

2022

Pateros Mayoralty Elections
PartyCandidateVotes%
Aksyon Miguel "Ike" Ponce III28,534 91.13%
Independent Marilyn Ison Chiong2,7778.87%
Total votes31,311 100.00%
Aksyon hold

2019

Pateros Mayoralty Elections
PartyCandidateVotes%
PDP–Laban Miguel "Ike" Ponce III18,370 67.67%
Nacionalista Willie Buenaventura8,77532.33%
Total votes27,145 100.00%

2016

Pateros Mayoralty Elections
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Miguel "Ike" Ponce III 9,760 36.24%
Independent Daisy Reyes 8,44431.35%
Nacionalista Willie Buenaventura6,43623.90%
NPC Jorge "Jojo" Nicdao1,6135.99%
Aksyon Ramon Roxas5902.19%
Partido Bagong MaharlikaDelfin Dela Rosa890.33%
Margin of victory1,3164.89%
Total votes26,932 100.00%

2013

Pateros Mayoralty Elections
PartyCandidateVotes%
Nacionalista Jaime “Joey” Medina12,886
Liberal Miguel "Ike" Ponce III12,284
Total votes

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