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^1 In 1949, two candidates from the Liberal Party contested the election: Jose Avelino and Elpidio Quirino. Avelino did not win at least a plurality of votes in a single province except his home province of Samar. ^2 In 1946, two candidates from the Nacionalista Party contested the election: Sergio Osmeña and Manuel Roxas. Both candidates won ...
For much of its history since 1935, the Philippines has been governed as a presidential unitary republic. 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 ...
The offices of the president and vice president are elected separately; hence a voter may split their vote. The candidate with the highest number of votes wins the position. 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.
Candidates for Philippine congressional seats and thousands of smaller races started campaigning Friday with police watching closely due to past violence and to enforce a pandemic ban on ...
The Iglesia ni Cristo is known for its practice of bloc voting during elections. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The INC is known for issuing directives to vote for certain candidates endorsed by the church under the tenet of obedience and the advocacy of a united unit. [ 1 ]
Registration gets underway in the Philippines on Tuesday for one of the world's biggest midterm elections, headlined by what could be a bitter proxy battle between President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ...
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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. Brazil and India, countries which also use technology to process their votes, employ e-voting instead of an automated count. [5]