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According to the Fair Elections Act, the COMELEC's cap on spending is 10 pesos per voter for each candidate and another 5 pesos per voter for one's political party; since there are about 50 million voters, a candidate can spend up to 500 million pesos and a party can spend an additional 250 million pesos.
The 2010 elections were administered by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in compliance with the Republic Act No. 9369, [1] also known as the Amended Computerization Act of 2007. It was the first national, and second overall computerized election after the 2008 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao regional election in the history of the ...
The 2010 House of Representatives of the Philippines party-list election was on May 10, 2010. The whole country was one at-large district, where parties nominate three persons to be their candidates, ranked in order of which they'll be seated if elected.
On December 15, 2009, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) released the approved list of candidates for the Senate elections. [8] On January 14, 2010, the COMELEC approved four more candidates for the Senate, reaching a total of 61. These are the candidates that were listed on the ballot, with order determined by surname.
On December 1, 2009, the COMELEC's Second Division ruled that Roberto Pagdanganan defeated Jonjon Mendoza in the 2007 elections, with Pagdanganan garnering 342,295 votes, 4,231 votes over Mendoza. Mendoza was a member of KAMPI prior to switching to the Liberals, and Pagdanganan was a member of Lakas-CMD before joining the Nacionalista Party . [ 4 ]
Candidate Party Votes % Benigno Aquino III: Liberal Party: 15,208,678: 42.08: Joseph Estrada: Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino: 9,487,837: 26.25: Manny Villar: Nacionalista ...
In district elections, the candidate with the highest number of votes in the district wins that district's seat. Even prior to the election when Lakas Kampi CMD members switched parties to either the Liberals or the Nacionalistas, they still suffered the biggest seat losses, although they still retained the plurality of seats in the House.
In an en banc decision however, the Comelec later ruled that Roman is the official Lakas-Kampi-CMD candidate, making Garcia the independent one. The result of the election is under protest in the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal. [1]