Three-term Representative Nancy Alaan Catamco is North Cotabato’s first Lumad Governor.
Catamco defeated veteran politician Rogelio Talino, long-time mayor of Carmen town and father of incumbent Governor Emmylou Talino-Mendoza, by a margin of 3,531 votes. She got 272,249 votes against Talino’s 268,718 votes.
Mendoza, who had served as three-term Representative of the first district of North Cotabato from 2001 to 2010 and Governor from 2010, won the post of Vice Governor with 326,718 votes 209,064 of Socrates Pinol, brother of Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol.
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