Bongbong Marcos poised to win the Philippines election presidency in a landslide
The 64-year-old senator has won 56% of the vote, compared to 28% for rival Leni Robredo.
Mr Marcos' victory would return his family to power 36 years after a popular revolution ousted them.
Critics allege his campaign was fuelled by misinformation, which he denies.
Turnout on voting day was high and previous elections in the country had been mainly ruled to be fair. Isolated incidents of violence - including the shooting of three people near a polling station - were not reflected widely across the country, officials said.
Opinion Polls in the run-up to the election put Mr Marcos Jr ahead of his nearest rival, Ms Robredo, by dozens of percentage points.
Critics say this resulted from Mr Marcos Jr consistently painting his father's rule as a "golden age" for the Philippines, whitewashing a period of rampant corruption and widespread poverty.
His father, Ferdinand Marcos, who became president in 1965, imposed martial law in 1972 and presided over a brutal regime which saw thousands of dissenters and critics jailed and killed.
Mr Marcos Sr, who died in 1989, and his wife Imelda stole an estimated $10bn (£8.1bn) from the Philippines' coffers, becoming infamous examples of public graft.
Ms Robredo, who ran for president on the promise of a clean and effective government, also drew huge crowds at her "pink revolution" rallies.
The rival campaigns turned this into one of the Philippines' most-watched elections. Both candidates tried to woo those below 30, who account for nearly half of the registered voters.
Mr Marcos Jr is set to inherit a country whose economy appears to be recovering from the pandemic better than expected.
But challenges, from high inflation to the aftermath of a brutal anti-drug campaign by President Rodrigo Duterte, remain.
Mr Duterte, a hugely popular strongman-style leader, oversaw a notorious war on drugs that led to police killing thousands without trial, according to human rights groups.
His daughter, Sara Duterte, who ran for vice-president alongside Mr Marcos Jr, is leading by a wide margin of votes, partial results show.
The election was not just for the presidential positions but also senators, the lower house and regional officials across the entire archipelago.
The official count of all votes may take days.
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