1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections

1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections

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All 258 seats in the House of Representatives (including 38 underhang seats) 130 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Manny Villar Raul Daza Party Lakas LAMMP Liberal Leader's seat Quezon City–4th Las Piñas Northern Samar–1st Last election 100 seats, 40.66% new party 5 seats, 1.86% Seats won 111 55 15 Seat change 11 55 10 Popular vote 11,981,024 6,520,744 1,773,124 Percentage 49.01% 26.68% 7.25% Swing 8.35% 26.68% 5.39%
Speaker before election Jose de Venecia Jr. Lakas Elected Speaker Manny Villar LAMMP

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Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 11, 1998. Held on the same day as the presidential election, the party of the incumbent president, Fidel V. Ramos' Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, won majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.^[1] For the first time since the People Power Revolution, a party won majority of the seats in the House; Lakas had a seat over the majority. This is also the first Philippine elections that included the party-list system.^[2]

However, with Joseph Estrada of the opposition Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino (LAMMP; an electoral alliance between the Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), the NPC and the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP)) winning the presidential election, the majority of the elected Lakas-NUCD-UMDP congressmen switched sides to LAMMP. This led to Manuel Villar, Jr. (formerly of Lakas but became a LAMMP member prior to the election) on being elected as the Speaker of the House.

The elected representatives served in the 11th Congress from 1998 to 2001.

Results[]

District elections[]

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Lakas-NUCD-UMDP	11,981,024	49.01	111
	Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino	6,520,744	26.68	55
	Liberal Party	1,773,124	7.25	15
	Nationalist People's Coalition	998,239	4.08	9
	Partido para sa Demokratikong Reporma	966,653	3.95	4
	Probinsya Muna Development Initiative	586,954	2.40	4
	Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan	134,331	0.55	0
	Aksyon Demokratiko	106,843	0.44	1
	Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino	47,273	0.19	0
	Ompia Party	46,462	0.19	1
	People's Reform Party	38,640	0.16	0
	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan	35,522	0.15	0
	Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas	8,850	0.04	0
	Lapiang Manggagawa	8,792	0.04	0
	Nacionalista Party	4,412	0.02	0
	Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino	2,010	0.01	0
	Kilusan para sa Pambansang Pagpapabago	1,310	0.01	0
	Unaffiliated	348,281	1.42	4
	Independent	834,934	3.42	2
Party-list seats[a]				51
Total		24,444,398	100.00	257
Valid votes		24,444,398	83.47
Invalid/blank votes		4,841,377	16.53
Total votes		29,285,775	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		33,873,665	86.46
Source: Dieter Nohlen; Florian Grotz; Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos. Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. & Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph.

Party-list election[]

There were 52 seats for sectoral representatives that were contested. Each party has to get 2% of the national vote to win one seat; they would win an additional seat for every 2% of the vote, up to the maximum three seats. Only 14 party-list representatives were elected under this rule, leaving 38 unfilled seats. Eventually, the "2–4–6%" rule was ruled as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on October 6, 2000 on the case Veterans Federation Party, et. al. vs. COMELEC.^[3] Despite this ruling, no additional seats were awarded to any party-lists.

See also[]

• 11th Congress of the Philippines

References[]

• Paras, Corazon L. (2000). The Presidents of the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines. ISBN 971-8832-24-6.
• Pobre, Cesar P. (2000). Philippine Legislature 100 Years. ISBN 971-92245-0-9.
• Teehankee, Julio. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph. Retrieved 2010-12-06.