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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. The elected representatives will serve in the 15th Congress.
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 Philippines uses parallel voting for seats in the House of Representatives; a voter has two votes: one for a representative from one's legislative district, and another for a sectoral representative via closed lists under the party-list system, with a 2% election threshold and 3-seat cap, when the parties with 2% of the national vote or ...
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 ...
Party Votes % +/– Seats +/– Ako Bicol Political Party: 1,524,006: 5.06: New: 3: New: Senior Citizens Partylist: 1,296,950: 4.31 +2.98: 2 +1: Buhay Hayaan Yumabong ...
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 ...
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 ballot.
Elected via closed lists, each party can return up to three representatives. If the person quits the party, the representative also loses one's seat. In any vacancy, the person next in line assumes the party's seat. For changes after the first seat was awarded for a party, see Change of seats in the 15th Congress.