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A general election was held in the Philippines on May 13, 2013. It was a midterm election —the officials elected will be sworn in on June 30, 2013, midway through President Benigno Aquino III 's term of office. Being elected are 12 senators (half of the Senate), and all 229 district members of the House of Representatives.
It was held on Monday, May 13, 2013, to elect 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate. The winners in this election joined the winners of the 2010 election to form the 16th Congress of the Philippines. The senators elected in 2010 will serve until June 30, 2016, while the senators elected in this election will serve up to June 30, 2019.
May 16, 2013. Evangelical Charismatic Christian. Senator (2007–2013) Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Lone District of Taguig-Pateros (1998–2007) Acting Vice Mayor of Taguig (1998–1998) Member of the Taguig Municipal Council from the 1st district (1992–1998) 1970. 4th. Francis Escudero.
The 2013 Philippine House of Representatives elections were the 33rd lower house elections in the Philippines. They were held on May 13, 2013 to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines that would serve in the 16th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2013 to June 30, 2016. The Philippines uses parallel voting for ...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) purged the parties participating in the party-list election from almost 200 parties in the 2010 election to just over 100. However, most of the disqualified party-lists successfully got restraining orders from the Supreme Court to retain their names on the ballot. On April 6, 2013, the Supreme Court changed ...
1981. Plebiscite. Approval of the modified parliamentary system. Yes 79.53%. Details. Prohibiting elected officials for being appointed except in the Executive Committee. Limiting accreditation of political parties to top two parties only. Prohibiting public officers from switching parties mid-term. Yes 78.95%.
There had been 17 direct presidential elections in history: 1935, 1941, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1969, 1981, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2016 and 2022. When referring to "presidential elections", these 17 are usually the ones being referred to. All of these also included vice presidential elections, except for 1981.
The results are then printed as the election return and sent electronically to the city or municipal Board of Canvassers. In 2016, for the third time in a row, the Philippines automated their elections using electronic vote counting machines. The deployment of 92,500 of these machines was the largest in the world.