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The Benguet Provincial Board is the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) of the Philippine province of Benguet. The members are elected via plurality-at-large voting: the province is divided into two districts, the first sending four and the second sending six members. The number of members the electorate votes for and the number ...
Benguet's 1st provincial district consists of the municipalities of Bokod, Itogon, Kabayan, Sablan and Tuba. Four board members are elected from this provincial district. Four board members are elected from this provincial district.
The province-level Sangguniang Bayan (later given the name Sangguniang Panlalawigan, [8] commonly abbreviated to SP) consisted of all the incumbent provincial board members (including the governor and vice-governor), plus a representative from each municipality within the province, and the provincial president of the Katipunan ng Mga Kabataang ...
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Medical practitioner, general surgeon Melchor Daguines Diclas (born March 18, 1973) is a Filipino politician and physician who has been the governor of Benguet since 2019. A member of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino , Diclas previously served as vice mayor of Buguias from 2007 to 2010, and then as mayor from 2010 to 2016.
Benguet (/ b ɛ ŋ ˈ ɡ ɛ t /), officially the Province of Benguet (Ibaloi: Probinsya ne Benguet; Kankanaey: Probinsyan di Benguet; Pangasinan: Luyag/Probinsia na Benguet; Ilocano: Probinsia ti Benguet; Filipino: Lalawigan ng Benguet), is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the southern tip of the Cordillera Administrative Region in the island of Luzon.
The province is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its lone congressional district. The present-day provinces of Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao and Kalinga, as well as the highly urbanized city of Baguio, formed part of the old (pre-division) Mountain Province's representation until 1969. Since 1969 ...
In 1917, the undivided Mountain Province, of which Benguet was a component sub-province, was provided representation in the Philippine Legislature.Pursuant to the Revised Administrative Code (Act No. 2711) enacted on March 10, 1917, the non-Christian-majority areas of the Philippines, which then included the Mountain Province and Baguio, were to be collectively represented in the legislature's ...