Philippine House of Representatives elections, 2007

May 14, 2007

All 270 seats in the House of Representatives 136 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jose de Venecia	Pablo P. Garcia	Arnulfo Fuentebella
Party	Lakas	KAMPI	NPC
Alliance	TEAM Unity	TEAM Unity	TEAM Unity
Leader's seat	Pangasinan–4th	Cebu–2nd	Camarines Sur–3rd
Last election	92 seats	2 seats	53 seats
Seats won	89	44	28
Seat change	3	42	25

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Joseph Emilio Abaya	Carlos M. Padilla	Ronaldo Zamora
Party	Liberal	Nacionalista	PMP
Alliance	GO	GO	GO
Leader's seat	Cavite–2nd	Nueva Vizcaya-Lone	San Juan City-Lone
Last election	29 seats	2 seats	7 seats w/ PDP-Laban
Seats won	23	11	9 w/ PDP-Laban & UNO
Seat change	6	9	2

Speaker before election

Jose de Venecia
Lakas

Elected Speaker

Jose de Venecia
Lakas

The 2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections were held on May 14, 2007, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines to serve in the 14th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2007, until June 30, 2010. The Philippines uses parallel voting for seats in the House of Representatives.

In district elections, 219 single-member constituencies elect one member of the House of Representatives. The candidate with the highest number of votes wins that district's seat. In the party-list election, the parties with at least 2% of the national vote were elected, and 21 representatives were elected However, later in 2007 the Supreme Court ruled in Banat vs. COMELEC that the 2% quota was unconstitutional, and that the sectoral representatives should comprise exactly 20% of the House. This led to the increase in the number of sectoral representatives to 51.

The administration-led TEAM Unity maintained control of the House of Representatives although the opposition-backed Genuine Opposition won control of the Senate. Incumbent Speaker Jose de Venecia of Pangasinan was elected Speaker after being the only one nominated: 186 voted for De Venecia, 1 against (Eduardo Joson) and 24 abstentions.

Campaign

Genuine Opposition

The Genuine Opposition (GO) targeted to win at least 80 seats to be able to impeach President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; however the administration's TEAM Unity prevented GO in winning several of those seats by fielding in strong candidates against GO in those districts.

Lakas vs. KAMPI

The administration's two main parties, Lakas-CMD and Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (KAMPI), was seen to win majority of the seats, with most contests contested by the two parties. This inevitably produced a split in the administration ranks on who would be their candidate for Speaker in the impending victory. However, the two parties were united in supporting President Arroyo and were able to prevent any impeachment proceeding against her or her allies from reaching the Senate.

Lakas-CMD party leader and House Speaker Jose de Venecia was challenged by KAMPI's Pablo P. Garcia for the speakership in the incoming 14th Congress of the Philippines which has caused a battle between administration allies. Recently, Garcia was accused by Parañaque City 1st District Rep. Eduardo Ziacita and Manila 6th District Rep. Bienvenido Abante, Jr. both under the party Lakas-CMD of using Government Service Insurance System or GSIS pension funds care of Garcia's son GSIS Vice-Chairman, General Manager and President Winston Garcia to bribe congressmen of PHP 300,000 to 400,000 to support his father's speakership bid.^[1]

Retiring and term limited incumbents

Lakas-CMD

Kilusang Bagong Lipunan

Ilocos Norte's 1st District: Imee Marcos: Term-limited in 2007

Liberal Party

Bataan's 1st District: Antonio Roman: Term-limited in 2007
Bukidnon's 1st District: J.R. Nereus Acosta: Term-limited in 2007
Kalinga's Lone District: Lawrence Wacnang: Term-limited in 2007
Laguna's 3rd District: Danton Bueser: Term-limited in 2007, ran and lost in the Mayoralty race in San Pablo to incumbent Vicente Amante
Malabon-Navotas's Lone District: Federico Sandoval: Term-limited in 2007, ran and lost in the Mayoral race in Navotas to incumbent Tobias Reynald Tiangco
Manila's 4th District: Rodolfo Bacani: Term-limited in 2007, ran and lost in the Mayoralty race in Manila to incumbent Senator Alfredo Lim
Northern Samar's 1st District: Harlin Abayon: Term-limited in 2007
Quezon's 1st District: Rafael Nantes: Term-limited in 2007, ran and won as Governor of Quezon
Tarlac's 2nd District: Benigno Aquino III: Term-limited in 2007, ran and won in the Senatorial race (6th place, first 12 are elected)

Nacionalista Party

Manila's 5th District: Joey Hizon: Term-limited in 2007, ran and lost in the Vice Mayoral race in Manila to incumbent Councilor Isko Moreno
Taguig City-Pateros's Lone District: Alan Peter Cayetano: Term-limited in 2007, ram and won in the Senatorial race (9th place, first 12 are elected)

Nationalist People's Coalition

Apayao's Lone District: Elias Bulut, Jr.: Term-limited in 2007, ran and won as Governor
Cagayan's 1st District: Juan Ponce Enrile, Jr.: Term-limited in 2007
Caloocan City's 2nd District: Luis Asistio: Ran and lost in the Mayoralty race in Caloocan to incumbent Enrico Echiverri
Camiguin's Lone District: Jurdin Jesus Romualdo: Term-limited in 2007, ran and won as Governor
Cebu's 2nd District: Simeon Kintanar: Term-limited in 2007
Cebu's 3rd District: Antonio Yapha: Term-limited in 2007
Cotabato's 2nd District: Gregorio Ipong: Term-limited in 2007
Davao City's 3rd District: Ruy Elias Lopez: Term-limited in 2007
Davao del Sur's 1st District: Douglas Cagas: Term-limited I'm 2007, ran and won as Governor
La Union's 1st District: Term-limited in 2007, ran and won as Governor
Laguna's 1st District: Uliran Joaquin: Term-limited in 2007, ran and lost in the Mayoralty race in San Pedro, Laguna to Calixto Cataquiz
Lanao del Norte's 1st District: Alipio Badelles: Term-limited in 2007
Lanao del Sur's 2nd District: Benansing Macarambong: Term-limited in 2007
Masbate's 2nd District: Emilio Espinosa: Term-limited in 2007
Negros Occidental's 4th District: Carlos Cojuangco: Term-limited in 2007
Negros Oriental's 2nd District: Emilio Macias: Term-limited in 2007, ran and won as Governor
Nueva Ecija's 1st District: Josefina Joson: Term-limited in 2007
Pampanga's 1st District: Francis Nepomuceno: Term-limited in 2007, ran and won as Mayor of Angeles City
Rizal's 2nd District: Isidro Rodriguez, Jr.: Term-limited in 2007
Sorsogon's 1st District: Francis Escudero: Term-limited in 2007, ran and won in the Senatorial Race (2nd Place, first 12 are elected)
Tarlac's 1st District: Gilberto Teodoro, Jr.: Term-limited in 2007, later appointed as Secretary of the Department of National Defense
Zamboanga del Sur's 1st District: Roseller Barinaga: Term-limited in 2007, ran and lost in the Mayoralty race in Dipolog City to Evelyn Uy

Results

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District

Party-list

89	44	28	23	11	23	34	18
'Lakas	KAMPI	NPC	LP	NP	Others	^[1]	^[2]

² Party-lists with 2 or more seats each

² Party-lists with 1 seat each

District elections results

District representatives are allocated 80% of the seats in the House:

**Summary of the 14 May 2007 House of Representatives of the Philippines election results in the districts**
Party			Seats	%
	Lakas	TEAM Unity	89	33.1%
	KAMPI	TEAM Unity	44	16.4%
	NPC	Split	28	10.4%
	Liberal	GO	23	8.6%
	Nacionalista	Split	11	4.1%
	LDP	TEAM Unity	5	1.9%
	PDP-Laban/UNO	GO	5	1.9%
	PMP	GO	4	1.5%
	PDSP	TEAM Unity	3	1.1%
	KBL	Unattached	1	0.4%
	Lingkod Taguig	TEAM Unity	1	0.4%
	Independent	Split	4	1.5%
Totals			218	80.4%
Coalitions
		TEAM Unity	142	52.8%
		Split	43	16.0%
		GO	37	13.8%
		Unattached	1	0.4%
Totals			218	80.4%

Party-list election result

Result of the Philippine House of Representatives party-list election. Proportion of votes (inner ring) as compared to proportion of seats (according to VFP vs. COMELEC, middle ring; final allocation according to BANAT vs. COMELEC, outer ring) of the political parties. Parties that did not win any seat are represented by a gray pie slice.

Party-list representatives are allocated 20% of the seats in the House; however, due to the 2% threshold and the 3-seat cap rule, the 20% requirement was not met. On the BANAT vs. COMELEC decision of the Supreme Court, it declared the 2% threshold unconstitutional; instead it mandated that parties surpassing the 2% threshold automatically having seats, then allocating one seat for every party with less than 2% of the vote until the 20% allocation was met. With the formula used, this meant that the party with the highest amount of votes usually gets three seats, the other parties with 2% or more of the vote winning two seats, and parties with less than 2% of the vote getting one seat.

**Summary of the May 14, 2007 House of Representatives party-list election result**
Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats won as per the Supreme Court decisions
Party	Votes	%	Swing	VFP	BANAT
Buhay	1,169,338	7.30%	1.75%	3	3
Bayan Muna	979,189	6.11%	3.35%	2	3
CIBAC	755,735	4.72%	0.83%	2	2
GABRIELA	621,266	3.88%	0.23%	2	2
APEC	619,733	3.87%	3.48%	2	2
A TEACHER	490,853	3.06%	3.06%	1	2
Akbayan	466,448	2.91%	3.79%	1	2
Alagad	423,165	2.64%	0.04%	1	2
Coop-NATCCO	409,987	2.56%	0.43%	1	2
Butil	409,168	2.55%	0.82%	1	2
BATAS	385,956	2.41%	2.41%	Disqualified
ARC	374,349	2.34%	2.34%	1	2
Anakpawis	370,323	2.31%	1.92%	1	2
AMIN	347,527	2.17%	0.05%	1	2
Abono	340,002	2.12%	2.12%	1	2
YACAP	331,623	2.07%	2.07%	1	2
AGAP	328,814	2.05%	2.05%	1	2
An Waray	321,516	2.01%	0.10%	1	1
FPJPM	301,031	1.88%	1.88%	0	1
UNI-MAD	251,804	1.57%	1.57%	0	1
ABS	235,152	1.47%	1.47%	0	1
ALIF	229,267	1.43%	0.68%	0	1
Kakusa	229,036	1.43%	1.43%	0	1
Kabataan	228,700	1.43%	1.43%	0	1
ABA-AKO	219,363	1.37%	0.61%	0	1
Senior Citizens	213,095	1.33%	0.53%	0	1
Aangat Tayo	200,030	1.25%	1.25%	0	1
VFP	196,358	1.23%	1.45%	0	1
ANAD	188,573	1.18%	0.74%	0	1
BANAT	177,068	1.10%	0.33%	0	1
Ang Kasangga	170,594	1.06%	1.06%	0	1
BANTAY	169,869	1.06%	0.73%	0	1
Abakada Guro	166,897	1.04%	0.52%	0	1
1-UTAK	165,012	1.03%	1.03%	0	1
TUCP	162,678	1.02%	0.56%	0	1
COCOFED	156,007	0.97%	0.32%	0	1
AGHAM	146,062	0.91%	0.91%	0	0
ANAK	141,860	0.89%	0.89%	0	0
Abanse! Pinay	130,649	0.82%	0.09%	0	0
Partido ng Manggagawa	119,082	0.74%	2.78%	0	0
SUARA	114,024	0.71%	0.58%	0	0
ASSALAM	113,966	0.71%	0.01%	0	0
AVE	111,002	0.69%	2.01%	0	0
DIWA	107,193	0.67%	0.67%	0	0
ANC	99,658	0.62%	0.62%	0	0
Sanlakas	97,425	0.61%	0.88%	0	0
ABC	90,125	0.56%	0.56%	0	0
KALAHI	89,461	0.56%	0.56%	0	0
Ahonbayan	80,932	0.51%	0.03%	0	0
APOI	79,460	0.50%	0.50%	0	0
BP	78,716	0.49%	0.49%	0	0
Bigkis	77,351	0.48%	0.98%	0	0
PMAP	75,230	0.47%	0.67%	0	0
AKAPIN	74,704	0.47%	0.21%	0	0
PBA	72,395	0.45%	0.45%	0	0
GRECON	62,247	0.39%	0.12%	0	0
BTM	61,089	0.38%	0.04%	0	0
NELFFI	58,773	0.37%	0.27%	0	0
A SMILE	58,772	0.37%	0.68%	0	0
AKSA	57,032	0.36%	0.36%	0	0
BAGO	55,852	0.35%	0.35%	0	0
BANDILA	54,779	0.34%	0.34%	0	0
Ahon	54,628	0.34%	0.34%	0	0
ASAHAN MO	51,805	0.32%	0.32%	0	0
Agbiag	50,878	0.32%	0.32%	0	0
SPI	50,605	0.32%	0.20%	0	0
ADD	48,665	0.30%	0.30%	0	0
Bahandi	46,640	0.29%	0.19%	0	0
AMANG	43,154	0.27%	0.27%	0	0
ABAY PARAK	42,308	0.26%	0.26%	0	0
BABAE KA	36,531	0.23%	0.23%	0	0
SB	34,893	0.22%	0.22%	0	0
ASAP	34,117	0.21%	0.18%	0	0
PEP	34,054	0.21%	0.21%	0	0
ABA Ilonggo	33,928	0.21%	0.21%	0	0
Vendors	33,726	0.21%	0.21%	0	0
ADD-Tribal	33,209	0.21%	0.21%	0	0
ALMANA	32,270	0.2%	0.20%	0	0
AANGAT KA PILIPINO	29,190	0.18%	0.18%	0	0
AAPS	26,305	0.16%	0.16%	0	0
HAPI	25,947	0.16%	0.16%	0	0
SM	23,239	0.15%	0.09%	0	0
AAWAS	22,963	0.14%	0.14%	0	0
AG	16,975	0.11%	0.11%	0	0
AGING PINOY	16,759	0.10%	0.12%	0	0
APO	16,442	0.10%	0.10%	0	0
Biyayang Bukid	16,286	0.10%	0.10%	0	0
ATS	14,196	0.09%	0.09%	0	0
UMDJ	9,624	0.06%	0.06%	0	0
Buklod Filipina	8,930	0.06%	0.06%	0	0
LYPAD	8,495	0.05%	0.05%	0	0
AA-KASOSYO	8,422	0.05%	0.05%	0	0
KASAPI	6,246	0.04%	0.04%	0	0
Total	15,950,900	100%		22	53
Valid votes	15,950,900	48.63%	10.67%
Total turnout	32,800,054	73.10%	3.87%
Registered voters	44,872,007	100%	3.07%

References

↑ Sun.Star Network Online - 4 lawmakers say GSIS funds used for Garcia's speakership bid

External links

Media websites

Halalan 2007 - Election coverage by ABS-CBN
Eleksyon 2007 - Election coverage by GMA Network
Eleksyon 2007 - Election coverage by the Philippine Daily Inquirer

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