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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 ...
Manuel Roxas of the newly formed Liberal Party won the election a few weeks prior to the granting of independence by the United States. In 1949, the first election for the newly independent republic was held with President Elpidio Quirino winning; Quirino succeeded Roxas, who died while in office. Thereafter, elections were held every four ...
1936 United States Presidential Election; United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1936; 1936 Louisiana gubernatorial election;
January 14 - Abdulmari Imao, National Artist of the Philippines for Sculpture. (d. 2014) April 3 - Louie Beltran, Filipino columnist (d. 1994) April 6 – Boy Asistio, former mayor of Caloocan (d. 2017) July 18 - Kurt Bachmann, Olympic basketball player (d. 2014) October 2 - Feliciano Belmonte, Jr., member of the Philippine House of Representatives
For full results and candidates, see the list of Philippine presidential elections. From the Commonwealth period to the last election prior the declaration of martial law, the major parties always split their ticket: one candidate was from Luzon and another either from the Visayas or Mindanao (the so-called "North-South" ticket).
The first national presidential election was held, [note 3] and Manuel L. Quezon (1935–44) was elected to a six-year term, with no provision for re-election, [4] as the second Philippine president and the first Commonwealth president. [note 2] In 1940, however, the Constitution was amended to allow re-election but shortened the term to four ...
Four special elections (known elsewhere as "by-elections") to the National Assembly of the Philippines, the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, were done on September 1, 1936. These were to fill up vacancies from four seats.
The 1935 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on September 16, 1935. This was the first election since the enactment of the Tydings–McDuffie Act , a law that paved the way for a transitory government , as well as the first nationwide at-large election ever held in the Philippines.