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The legislative districts of Quezon City are the representations of the highly urbanized city of Quezon in the various national and local legislatures of the Philippines.At present, the province is represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines by its six congressional districts, with the districts' representatives being elected every three years.
Quezon City, the most populous city in the Philippines, is politically subdivided into 142 barangays. All of Quezon City's barangays are classified as urban. [1] These barangays are grouped into six congressional districts, with each district represented by a congressman in the House of Representatives. As of July 2, 2012, President Benigno S ...
Metro Manila, the capital region of the Philippines, is a large metropolitan area that has several levels of subdivisions. Administratively, the region is divided into seventeen primary local government units with their own separate elected mayors and councils who are coordinated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, a national government agency headed by a chairperson directly ...
Novaliches: Novaliches is the largest district in Quezon City, which made up almost all the northern portion of the city after Batasan Hills. It contains the La Mesa Watershed Reservation and its Dam and Reservoir where most of Metro Manila's water supply came from. It was originally a part of Caloocan before being incorporated to Quezon City ...
The Quezon City Council is Quezon City's Sangguniang Panlungsod or legislature. It is composed of 36 councilors, with 6 councilors elected from Quezon City's six councilor districts (coextensive with the Legislative districts of Quezon City) and two councilors elected from the ranks of barangay (neighborhood) chairmen and the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK; youth councils).
Quezon City: Filipino word for "front." Calumpang: Marikina: Spanish rendering of "kalumpang", a type of tropical chestnuts. Camp Aguinaldo: Quezon City: Emilio Aguinaldo, first president of the Philippines Camp Crame and West Crame: Quezon City and San Juan: Rafael Crame, sixth chief of the Philippine Constabulary and the first Filipino to ...
Quezon City's 4th congressional district is one of the six congressional districts of the Philippines in Quezon City. It has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1987. [3] The district consists of the south central barangays bordering Manila and San Juan. It includes the Diliman and New Manila areas. [4]
The district consists of the eastern barangays bordering Marikina, San Mateo and Rodriguez. [4] From 1987 to 2013, it was the most populous district in the country, encompassing the northern part of Quezon City commonly called as Novaliches , until it was redistricted in time for the 2013 election.