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For much of its history since 1935, the Philippines has been governed as a presidential unitary republic.The term "general election" is not predominantly used in the Philippines, but for the purposes of this article, a "general election" may refer to an election day where the presidency or at least a class of members of Congress are on the ballot.
The Philippines uses parallel voting for its lower house elections. For this election, there are 317 seats in the House of Representatives; 254 of these are district representatives, and 63 are party-list representatives. [7] Philippine law mandates that there should be one party-list representative for every four district representatives.
The National Assembly amended the constitution, reconstituting a bicameral Congress, in 1941. The first elections under this setup was done later that year. World War II intervened, and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines led to the creation of the Second Philippine Republic, with elections done in 1943 for its own National Assembly.
A joint session of Philippines Congress on Wednesday declared Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the notorious late dictator, the winner of this month's election and confirmed he would ...
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.
The following are the results of the 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections by ... Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines: 128,134: 84.58:
These are term-limited and retiring members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines during the 19th Congress of the Philippines, who either cannot or chose not to run in the 2025 House elections. In the Philippines, members of the House of Representatives are limited to three consecutive terms. Term-limited members, therefore, cannot ...
Election Congress Senate election results House of Representatives elections results Pre-1941 See Philippine Legislature and National Assembly of the Philippines: 1941: 1st Commonwealth Congress: 24 Nacionalista: 95 Nacionalista 3 independent 1946: 2nd Commonwealth Congress: 9 Nacionalista (Liberal wing) 6 Nacionalista 1 Popular Front