Comelec initializes servers for results transmission

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Rappler's election site will be rendering results real time, as they are received from the Comelec's Media Server

MAKATI, Philippines – The Commission on Elections information technology (Comelec IT) department has initialized the election servers at 3 pm on Monday, May 12, in preparation for receiving results from polling centers nationwide.

As part of its Automated Election System for the 2025 national and local elections, the Comelec has engaged three data centers in various locations for the purpose of processing results for all electoral contests. The servers are programmed to start receiving results from counting machines after 7 pm. Read this story to understand how the Philippine Automated Election System works.

Rappler is one of the media groups accredited to receive partial, unofficial results from the Comelec Media Server which is located at the Circuit Corporate Center in Makati City.

As of 5 pm, Rappler’s election site has already shifted to results reception mode, with all positions displaying zero votes.

The map below will track transmission status as the transmission process progresses. Keep refreshing the page for the latest results and updates on the results transmission.

For the 2025 elections, the Comelec has engaged three data centers for the purpose of receiving and processing results. There are two data centers in Makati City.

Data Center 1, which hosts the Comelec Central Server, is at the PLDT’s Vitro Data Center in Makati. Data Center 3, which hosts the servers for the various transparency servers for the unofficial count is at the Circuit Corporate Center Building in the same city.

Data Center 2, which hosts the main backup server, is located in Sucat, Parañaque.

The Comelec has also increased the number of servers that will receive ERs directly from the voting machines. Each of the four mandated groups will now have their own dedicated servers.

These groups are: two civil society groups that act as the Comelec’s citizen’s arm — the Parish Pastoral for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) and the National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) — and the dominant majority party and the dominant minority party.  

Rappler and other media groups access through a fifth server: the Comelec Media Server.

Tabulation of votes received by the various transparency servers are considered partial and unofficial. Rappler’s election site, accessible through ph.rappler.com/ will also be publishing partial and unofficial results from the Comelec Media Server as soon as it starts receiving election results from the counting machines.

All servers in the Comelec data centers are expected to receive results directly from 93,629 clustered precincts.

In addition to this, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) also hosts a server that mirrors data from the central server. – Rappler.com