What happens when there's a tie between two candidates during an election?

In the case that there is a tie between the two highest candidates during an election, the results are left to chance.

According to a trivia from Kuya Kim, the Board of Canvassers would call a public hearing and initiate a drawing of lots — but more commonly, a coin toss.

Case in point, during the 2016 elections, Jodi Villanueva and Jim Valerio each garnered 16,694 votes as they vied for the mayoral seat in Bocaue, Bulacan.

They engaged in three rounds of coin toss, and Villanueva emerged victorious.

It is not always this clean cut, however.

In 2019, mayoral candidates Sue Cadilla won via coin toss against Noel Beronio after they each got 3,495 votes in Araceli, Palawan.

This prompted Beronio to file an electoral protest at the Regional Trial Court. After the manual recount, it was found that he actual beat out Cadilla by four votes.

Beronio was declared mayor of Araceli that year. —JCB, GMA News