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Durano's brother, ] of the ] (NPC), won convincingly to keep the seat within the Durano family, winning in all 891 polling precincts in the district's ten towns and ]. His grandfather, ], previously held the seat from 1949 to 1971 (the area was districted as Cebu's 1st district at that time). Ramon VI's father, ], then mayor of Danao, later became congressman and then represented the district for three consecutive terms from 1987 to 1998, before Joseph Ace succeeded him. Joseph Ace was on his second term when he was appointed Tourism secretary. Even before the votes were cast, Durano's opponent, Dean Severo Dosado, was quoted as having said he did not think he was going to win. He and the other candidate, Wilfredo Tuadles, did not field any poll watchers.<ref name="star">{{cite news |url=http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=280017&publicationSubCategoryId=67 |title=Durano brod is new Cebu congressman |first=Fred |last=Languido |work=Freeman News Service |work=The Philippine Star|date=2005-06-02 |accessdate=2011-01-06 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |
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Durano's brother, ] of the ] (NPC), won convincingly to keep the seat within the Durano family, winning in all 891 polling precincts in the district's ten towns and ]. His grandfather, ], previously held the seat from 1949 to 1971 (the area was districted as Cebu's 1st district at that time). Ramon VI's father, ], then mayor of Danao, later became congressman and then represented the district for three consecutive terms from 1987 to 1998, before Joseph Ace succeeded him. Joseph Ace was on his second term when he was appointed Tourism secretary. Even before the votes were cast, Durano's opponent, Dean Severo Dosado, was quoted as having said he did not think he was going to win. He and the other candidate, Wilfredo Tuadles, did not field any poll watchers.<ref name="star">{{cite news |url=http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=280017&publicationSubCategoryId=67 |title=Durano brod is new Cebu congressman |first=Fred |last=Languido |agency=Freeman News Service |work=The Philippine Star|date=2005-06-02 |accessdate=2011-01-06 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |
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The low turnout (48.56%) was blamed on the non-inclusion of areas outside the district in the special holiday for the election. Another factor was the nonexistence of campaign materials from the candidates. The turnout in ], the town with the lowest turnout at 31.78%, was blamed on the town ] that prevented the electorate from voting.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mb.com.ph/node/125271 |title=It’s a runaway poll win for brother of Durano |first=Mars Jr. |last=Mosqueda |work=Manila Bulletin|date=2005-06-01 |accessdate=2011-01-06}}</ref> |
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The low turnout (48.56%) was blamed on the non-inclusion of areas outside the district in the special holiday for the election. Another factor was the nonexistence of campaign materials from the candidates. The turnout in ], the town with the lowest turnout at 31.78%, was blamed on the town ] that prevented the electorate from voting.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mb.com.ph/node/125271 |title=It’s a runaway poll win for brother of Durano |first=Mars Jr. |last=Mosqueda |work=Manila Bulletin|date=2005-06-01 |accessdate=2011-01-06}}</ref> |
