Shariff Kabunsuan creation plebiscite, 2006

The Shariff Kabunsuan creation plebiscite was a plebiscite on the creation of the Province of Shariff Kabunsuan from Maguindanao province in the Philippines. The results were announced on October 31, 2006.

Gov. Datu Zaldy Ampatuan of ARMM and his father, Gov. Datu Andal Ampatuan of Maguindanao, earlier campaigned for the conception of Shariff Kabunsuan to better extend government services to their constituents, particularly those in the precipitous parts of the area.^[1]

Ampatuan signed Regional Legislative Assembly Bill No. 445, seeking the creation of the new province, on September 7, 2006. This paved the way for the plebiscite.

There are talks Maguindanao Vice Governor Bimbo Sinsuat will be named caretaker of the youngest local government unit in the country.

Sinsuat himself declined to comment when asked to comment on reports that the regional governor had chosen him to head the new province.^[2]

Those who voted for the ratification of the ARMM law which created Shariff Kabunsuan was more than 60 percent of the total registered voters in the province.

It will be the first ever province created by the region’s legislature.

Under the ARMM’s charter, the Regional Assembly can create barangays, towns and provinces as long as the new set up would not alter the geographical and political territories of any of the region’s eight congressional districts.

Its creation was authored by the 24-seat Regional Assembly in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) which will cover all of the 10 towns in the first district of Maguindanao.^[3]

Referendum question

The Shariff Kabunsuan creation plebiscite was supervised and officiated by the COMELEC pursuant to Resolution No. 7727.

The question of the said plebiscite was:

DO YOU APPROVE OF THE CREATION OF THE PROVINCE OF SHARIFF KABUNSUAN, INTO A DISTINCT AND INDEPENDENT PROVINCE COMPRISING THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BARIRA, BULDON, DATU ODIN SINSUAT, KABUNTALAN, MATANOG, PARANG, SULTAN KUDARAT, SULTAN MASTURA, UPI AND DATU BLAH T. SINSUAT IN THE PROVINCE OF MAGUINDANAO, PURSUANT TO MMA ACT NO. 201?

Results

Option	Votes
In favor for creation	285,372
Against the creation	8,802

The following municipalities seceded from Maguindanao and formed the new province. All of them were from the first legislative district of Maguindanao.

Kabuntalan was chosen as the capital of the new province.

The province was the first to be created under Republic Act No. 9054 or the Expanded ARMM law.

Notes

Local elections and plebiscites in the Philippines

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Gubernatorial	1902 1904 1905 1908 1912 1916 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1941 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1980 1988 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016

Regional (Autonomous)	1990 1993 1996 2001 2005 2008 2013 2016

Barangay	1975 (KB) 1979 (SP) 1980 (KB) 1982 (B) 1989 (B) 1992 (SK) 1994 (B) 1996 (SK) 1997 (B) 2002 2007 2010 2013 (B) 2016 (B)

Plebiscites	1963 Samar 1967 Agusan 1971 Quirino and Siquijor 1977 Southern Philippines 1979 Aurora 1989 ARMM 1990 CAR 1992 Biliran, Guimaras and Sarangani 1995 Kalinga Apayao 1995 Isabela 1998 CAR 1998 Compostela Valley 2001 Zamboanga Sibugay 2001 ARMM 2006 Dinagat Islands 2006 Shariff Kabunsuan 2008 Quezon del Sur 2013 Davao Occidental Bangsamoro

Provinces	Abra Agusan del Norte Agusan del Sur Aklan Albay Antique Apayao Aurora Basilan Bataan Batanes Batangas Benguet Biliran Bohol Bukidnon Bulacan Cagayan Camarines Norte Camarines Sur Camiguin Capiz Catanduanes Cavite Cebu Compostela Valley Cotabato Davao del Norte Davao del Sur Davao Occidental Davao Oriental Eastern Samar Guimaras Ifugao Ilocos Norte Ilocos Sur Iloilo Isabela Kalinga La Union Laguna Lanao del Norte Lanao del Sur Leyte Maguindanao Marinduque Masbate Metro Manila* Misamis Occidental Misamis Oriental Mountain Province Negros Occidental Negros Oriental Northern Samar Nueva Ecija Nueva Vizcaya Occidental Mindoro Oriental Mindoro Palawan Pampanga Pangasinan Quezon Quirino Rizal Romblon Samar Sarangani Siquijor Sorsogon South Cotabato Southern Leyte Sultan Kudarat Sulu Surigao del Norte Surigao del Sur Tarlac Tawi-Tawi Zambales Zamboanga del Norte Zamboanga del Sur Zamboanga Sibugay

*An administrative region, but included for purposes of comparison.

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