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The House of Representatives elections were part of the 2016 general election where elections for President, Vice President, Senators, and all local officials, including those from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, were also held. The Philippines uses parallel voting in its lower house elections. There are 297 seats in the House; 238 of ...
A general election in the Philippines took place on May 9, 2016, for executive and legislative branches for all levels of government – national, provincial, and local, except for the barangay officials. At the top of the ballot was the election for successors to Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and Vice President Jejomar Binay.
2016 Philippine House of Representatives election in Mandaluyong's Lone District; Party Candidate Votes % Liberal: Alexandra "Queenie" Gonzales : 122,792 : 79.00% : Independent: Francisco Reyes 9,543 6.14% PDP–Laban: Jack Ramel 4,147 2.67% Independent: Albert Yap 1,560 1.00% Valid ballots 138,042 88.81% Invalid or blank votes 17,391 11.19% ...
The election was via the party-list system, with a 2% "soft" election threshold via the Hare quota, except that no party can win more than 3 seats, and if the seats won do not reach the 20% of the seats of the entire House of Representatives, the parties that have yet to win seats will get a seat each until the 20% reserved for party-lists have ...
February 9, 2016 Start of Campaign period for president, vice president, senators and party-lists [19] March 24–25, 2016 Campaign ban [19] March 26, 2016 Start of Campaign period for district representatives and local officials [19] April 9, 2016 Start of casting of ballots for overseas absentee voters. (until May 9, 2016) [19] April 27–29 ...
Former representative won election unopposed. Davao del Sur: Nacionalista: Mercedes Cagas Nacionalista: Incumbent won reelection. New District, municipalities of Sulop, Kiblawan, Malalag from 2nd district were added to form the new 1st district. Davao Occidental: Liberal: Lorna Bautista-Bandigan Liberal: New representative won election unopposed.
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. Since 1992, on presidential election days, the presidency, half of the Senate, the House of ...
Elections were held in Central Luzon for seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines on May 9, 2016. The candidate with the most votes won that district's seat for the 17th Congress of the Philippines .