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Antipolo, officially the City of Antipolo (Filipino: Lungsod ng Antipolo), is a component city and capital of the province of Rizal, Philippines. [5] According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 887,399 people. [3] It is the most populous city in Rizal Province and in Calabarzon region, and the seventh most-populous city in the ...
The city was further divided into two congressional districts on December 22, 2003, by virtue of Republic Act No. 9232; [3] each elected their own representative beginning in 2004. However the city's residents still vote as part of the province's 1st and 2nd Sangguniang Panlalawigan districts for the purpose of electing Provincial Board members.
Antipolo, the province's capital city, is the center of trade and exchange, tourism, government, and economy. [citation needed] It is also a center of education and sports because of the availability of various educational and physical training facilities.
Casimiro "Jun" Alcantara Ynares III (born March 4, 1973) is a Filipino physician and politician who is the mayor of Antipolo from 2013 to 2019 and since 2022. [1] He previously served as the Public Information Officer of the city under his wife, former Mayor Andrea Bautista-Ynares, and the governor of Rizal from 2007 to 2013.
Antipolo held its local elections on Monday, May 13, 2019, as a part of the 2019 Philippine general election.Voters elected candidates for the local elective posts in the city: the mayor, the vice mayor, the two district congressmen, the two provincial board members of Rizal (one for each district) and the sixteen councilors (eight for each district).
Local elections were held at Antipolo on May 9, 2022, as part of the Philippine general election. Held concurrently with the national elections, the electorate voted to elect a mayor, a vice mayor, sixteen councilors members, two members to the Rizal Provincial Board and two district representatives to congress .
The Ynares Center is an indoor arena located along the Circumferential Road in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines. The facility, which has a seating capacity of 7,400, is managed by the Provincial Government of Rizal. The arena is named after the Ynares family of Rizal, whose members had served as governors since 1992.
As Antipolo transitioned from a municipality to a component city of Rizal, Gatlabayan was elected as its first city mayor on May 15, 1998 and was re-elected in a landslide victory to a second term on May 14, 2001. [citation needed] Mayor Gatlabayan was responsible for handling Antipolo's ₱800-million budget and served its 500,000 residents.