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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 19th Congress of the Philippines (Filipino: Ikalabinsiyam na Kongreso ng Pilipinas), composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, convened on July 25, 2022. The 19th Congress is meeting during the first three years of Bongbong Marcos's presidency , and will end on June 6, 2025.
The 2025 Philippine Senate election will be the 35th election of members to the Senate of the Philippines. It will be held on May 12, 2025, within the 2025 Philippine general election . The seats of the 12 senators elected in 2019 will be contested in this election.
The Senate, when it existed, met at the Old Legislative Building from 1918 to 1941, from 1949 to 1973, and from 1987 to 1997.. Elections to the Senate of the Philippines are done via plurality-at-large voting; a voter can vote for up to twelve candidates, with the twelve candidates with the highest number of votes being elected.
Senator (2010–2022; Senate president (2016–2022)) 60 Michael Tapado PM — 61 Francis Tolentino: PFP: Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas: Incumbent senator (since 2019) 62 Ben Tulfo: Independent — 63 Erwin Tulfo: Lakas: Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas: Incumbent House representative for ACT-CIS Partylist (since 2023) 64 Mar Valbuena ...
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 ...
Those elected in 2019 were joined by the winners of this election to serve in the 19th Congress. There were 178 people who filed to run for Senate, [150] and the final ballot included 64 names. [156] Among the senators-elect, four were reelected, five returned to the Senate, and three including top vote-winner Robin Padilla were new. [157]
The Congress of the Philippines (Filipino: Kongreso ng Pilipinas) is the legislature of the national government of the Philippines.It is bicameral, composed of an upper body, the Senate, and a lower body, the House of Representatives, [3] although colloquially, the term "Congress" commonly refers to just the latter.