Basketball Personalities Who Won In The Last Election

Several sports and basketball personalities emerged victorious in their respective bids in the latest partial and unofficial results for the 2025 Philippine midterm elections.

PBA star James Yap is set for his second term as San Juan City first district councilor after earning 18,394 votes in second place at 12:46 p.m. with 100 percent of election returns transmitted from the unofficial results aggregated from Comelec data.

His fellow basketball player Ervic Vijandre was also reelected as councilor with 17,372 votes in fourth place, while aspirant Renren Ritualo lost and wound up outside the top six with 13,539 votes.

Francis Zamora, a former La Salle basketball star, was re-elected for his third and final term as San Juan Mayor with 57,998 votes, winning over PBA legend Philip Cezar, who only had 8,340 votes.

Former La Salle champion coach Franz Pumaren is set for his second term as Congressman in Quezon City’s third district with 72,706 votes, leading his competitor Allan Reyes by over 16,000 votes from 200 election returns.

PBA legend Vergel Meneses is reelected for his final term as Bulacan, Bulacan Mayor with 26,967 votes, besting Patrick Niel Meneses.

The ex-UST Growling Tigers’ guard Jeric Teng has been proclaimed as Gumaca, Quezon councilor with 14,882 votes in second place with 92.5% of election returns. Former Perpetual player GJ Ylagan is also poised for a seat with 13,004 votes in fifth place.

Teng’s ex-UST teammate Another former UST and PBA player is set to earn a seat as a councilor, as Jervy Cruz is expected to secure a seat as councilor in Nampicuan, Nueva Ecija.

Dodot Jaworski was reelected as Pasig City Vice Mayor with 285,358 votes, holding a huge margin against Iyo Caruncho Bernardo (70,934), joining re-elected mayor and landslide winner Vico Sotto.

Rosalio "Maro" Martirez, the son of the late San Miguel Beer player Yoyong, was second in the councilor race in Pasig’s second district with 137,376 votes.

Converge deputy coach Dennis "Delta" Pineda won the vice governor position in Pampanga with 748,990 votes from 99.72 percent of election returns.

Retired PBA player Gary David was the top councilor in Dinalupihan, Bataan with 44,188 votes.