MANILA. The Genuine Opposition senatorial candidates continued to dominate the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) Quick Count (partial and unofficial) yesterday reports said.

As of 5:34 p.m. Loren Legarda still topped the Senate race with 4,181,309 votes. Another GO candidate, Francis Escudero, was in second place with 4,028,586 votes followed by teammate Panfilo Lacson (3,644,891).

Manuel Villar (3,432,402), GO's guest candidate, dislodged independent bet Francis Pangilinan (3,422,350) from the fourth slot.

Benigno Aquino III (3,286,331) trailed behind Pangilinan to take the sixth slot while Team Unity's Edgardo Angara (3,062,154) and Joker Arroyo (2,717,216) ranked number seventh and eighth place, respectively.

Rounding out the top 12 were independent candidate Gregorio Honasan (2,662,027), GO candidates Alan Peter Cayetano (2,590,440) and Antonio Trillanes IV (2,554,849) and TU's Juan Miguel Zubiri (2,548,567).

Placing 13th to 15th were GO candidate Aquilino Pimentel III (2,519,139), TU's Ralph Recto (2,496,863) and Prospero Pichay (2,433,074).

For party-list elections, Bayan Muna still maintained its lead with 72,935 votes followed by Gabriela (71,256), Buhay (68,766), Apec (50,365) and Cibac (42,579).

The figures in NAMFREL's quick count represented 65,242, or 29.03 percent, of the 224,748 total number of clustered precincts nationwide.