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The Philippines has a 24-member Senate elected at-large. Every three years since 1995, 12 seats are disputed. For 2025, the seats disputed in 2019 will be contested. Each voter has 12 votes, of which one can vote for one to twelve candidates, or a multiple non-transferable vote; the twelve candidates with the most votes are elected.
Elections in the Philippines are of several types. The president, vice-president, and the senators are elected for a six-year term, while the members of the House of Representatives, governors, vice-governors, members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial board members), mayors, vice-mayors, members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod/members of the Sangguniang Bayan (city/municipal councilors ...
The Senate of the Philippines is elected via multiple non-transferable vote on an at-large basis, where a voter has 12 votes, cannot transfer any of the votes to a candidate, and can vote for up to twelve candidates. If the mock ballot has 13 or more preferences, the pollster classifies it as "invalid."
The 2025 Philippine general election will be held on May 12, 2025. During this midterm election, where the winners take office mid-way the term of President Bongbong Marcos, all 317 seats in the House of Representatives and 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate will be contested to form the 20th Congress of the Philippines.
Instead, they were planning to hold the election in December. [34] A week later, COMELEC announced that the special election would be on December 9, 2023, with the filing of candidacies from November 6 to 8. [35] The filing deadline would later be extended to November 11. [36] COMELEC allocated ₱75 million for the conduct of the election. [37]
Ever since elections were first introduced by the United States, [15] single-winner elections have been carried out using a plurality voting system: the candidate with the highest number of votes is elected. [46]: 149 Multiple-winner elections, except for representatives elected through the party-list system, are done via plurality-at-large voting.
This list of presidential elections in the Philippines includes election results of both presidential and vice presidential elections since 1899 with the candidates' political party and their corresponding percentage. The offices of the president and vice president are elected separately; hence a voter may split their vote.
The following is the official canvassing of votes by the Congress of the Philippines for the 2022 Philippine presidential and vice presidential election.The canvassing started on May 24, 2022 [1] and ended a day later, making it the fastest congressional canvassing process in Philippine electoral history.