Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1946

April 23, 1946

All 98 seats in the House of Representatives 50 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Eugenio Pérez	Cipriano Primicias	Luis Taruc
Party	Nacionalista (Liberal wing)	Nacionalista	Democratic Alliance
Leader's seat	Pangasinan–2nd	Pangasinan–4th	Pampanga–2nd
Last election	new party	95	0
Seats won	49	35	5
Seat change	49	60	5
Popular vote	1,129,971	908,740	152,410
Percentage	47.06%	37.84%	6.35%

Speaker before election

Jose Zulueta
Nacionalista

Elected Speaker

Eugenio Pérez
Liberal

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The Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on April 23, 1946. Held on the same day as the presidential election, it was held after the Nacionalista Party had split permanently into two factions: the "Conservative" faction headed by president Sergio Osmeña and the "Liberal" faction headed by Senate president Manuel Roxas which will later be the Liberal Party. Roxas and the Liberals won the elections leaving the Nacionalistas in the minority in both houses of Congress.

Candidates from the leftist Democratic Alliance won six seats in the House of Representatives but were not allowed to take their seats on grounds of fraud and violent campaign tactics during the election.^[1] Five of them were later restored their seats but only after a constitution amendment concerning parity rights to U.S. citizens was approved. That approval was required by the Bell Trade Act of the United States Congress and led to the 1947 Philippine Parity Rights plebiscite to amend the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines.

Results

**Summary of the April 23, 1946 Philippine House of Representatives election results**
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote		Seats won
Parties and coalitions		Total	%	Total	%
	Nacionalista (Liberal wing)	1,129,971	47.06%	49	50.00%
	Nacionalista	908,740	37.84%	35	35.71%
	Democratic Alliance	152,410	6.35%	6	6.12%
	Popular Front	62,286	2.59%	1	1.02%
	Young Philippines	31,222	1.30%	1	1.02%
	Popular Democratic	20,089	0.84%	1	1.02%
	Laborite	3,324	0.14%	0	0.00%
	Modernist	570	0.02%	0	0.00%
	Republican	516	0.02%	0	0.00%
	Philippine Masses	56	0.00%	0	0.00%
	Independent	87,770	3.66%	5	5.10%
Totals		18,081,743	100.00%	98	100.00%
Source: Teehankee, Julio. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph. Retrieved 2010-12-11.

References

↑ Dolan, Ronald E, ed. (1991), Philippines: A Country Study, Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress

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

Elections and referendums in the Philippines

Presidential elections	1935 1941 1946 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1981 1986 1992 1998 2004 2010 2016

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Referendums	1935 1937 1939 1940 1947 1967 1973 (Jan) 1973 (Jul) 1975 1976 1977 1981 (Apr) 1981 (Jun) 1984 1987

See also: Local elections and referendums in the Philippines

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Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1946

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