1941 Philippine Senate election

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1941 Philippine Senate election
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  1938 (National Assembly) November 11, 1941 1946  

All 24 seats in the Philippine Senate
13 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority party
  Manuel Roxas.jpg Vicente Yap Sotto 1917.jpg
Leader Manuel Roxas Vicente Sotto
Party Nacionalista Popular Front
Seats won240
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 240

1941 Philippine Senate elections results.svg
Representation of results

Elected Senate President

Manuel Roxas
Nacionalista

Election to the Senate were held on November 11, 1941 in the Philippines. The Senate was re-instituted after amendments to the constitution restored the bicameral legislature last used in 1935.

Contents

The elected senators would start to serve only in 1945 as they were not able to take office on December 30, 1941 as Imperial Japan invaded the country on December 8, 1941 at the onset of World War II.

Electoral system

The electorate voted with plurality block voting for the first time for the Senate; the voters have the option of writing the party name on the ballot and all 24 candidates from the party receive votes; another option is by voting individually for each candidate. Also, the former senatorial districts were not used; instead voting was done nationwide as one at-large district. The succeeding Senate elections would be held every two years, with eight seats to be disputed in every election. [1] [2]

The next election was to be on 1943, but due to the intervention of World War II, no elections were until 1946, where the seats supposedly up in 1943 and 1945 were disputed. The winners of the 1941 election were not seated until 1945. In the intervening years, the Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, put up a unicameral National Assembly.

Candidates

These were the following tickets:

Total seats up: 24
PartyTotal
Nacionalista 24
Popular Front (Sumulong wing)24
Popular Front (Abad Santos wing)23
Ganap 22
Modernist Party (Philippines)11
Independent 1
Total105
Nacionalista Party (NP) Popular Front (Sumulong Wing) (PF-Sumulong) Popular Front (Abad Santos Wing) (PF-Abad Santos) Ganap Party (GP)Modernist Party (MP)
Alauya Alonto Jose Alejandrino Sr Jose Alejandrino Sr Wenceslao AsistidoPedro Arteche
Nicolas Buendia Jose CasalMariano BalgosSixto BedrusVicente del Rosario
Esteban de la Rama Pedro ColetoPedro C. CastroMarcelino Chavez Francisco Afan Delgado
Ramon J. Fernandez Fernando GardoquiMateo del CastilloAlfredo Dumlao Santiago Fonacier
Pedro Hernaez Melchor LagascaFrancisco DemateraJose JabeonManuel Luz
Vicente Madrigal Marcelino Lontok Crisanto Evangelista Fernando MangsonFlora Ylagan
Rafael Martinez Mamerto ManaloSeverino IzonVicente PamatinatHonorio Caringal (withdrew)
Quintin Paredes Emilio MedinaIgnacio Nabong (withdrew)Perfecto ReyesMariano delos Santos
Vicente Rama Jose Padilla Sr. Jose M. NavaFlorentino Subayno Crisanto Evangelista
Manuel Roxas Francisco RamosDatu Tampugao PagayaoEulalio TolentinoMelchor Lagasca
Proceso Sebastian Geronimo SantiagoNarcisa PaguibitanPrudencio VegaJosefa Martinez
Ramon Torres Vicente Sotto Hadji UsmanGaudencio Bautista
Melecio Arranz Jose M. BayotAngel AncajasCiriaco V. Campomanes
Mariano Jesus Cuenco Felicidad ClimacoIsabello CaballeroEsteban Coruna
Antonio de las Alas Jose GamboaSevero DavaJoaquin Flavier
Carlos P. Garcia Eliseo Imzon Isabelo delos Reyes Jr. Mariano Lumbre
Domingo Imperial Julio A. Llorente Lino DizonSamson Palomares
Daniel Maramba Sixto Lopez Juan Feleo Antonio Ramos
Jose Ozamiz Angel MarinManuel JovenAntipas Soriano
Elpidio Quirino Raymundo Melliza Norberto NabongAurelio Tankeko
Claro M. Recto Jose Palarca Sr Jose Padilla Sr. Ricardo Valdivia
Eulogio Rodriguez Pablo RochaAntonio PaguiaPedro Zaragosa
Emiliano Tria Tirona Filemon Sotto Antonio Salvador
Jose Yulo Juan Villamor
Independents
Manuel Briones

Results

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Per candidate

While the tally of votes have been lost in history, some sources tell where each candidate finished in the tally. Claro M. Recto finished first, [3] while Mariano Jesus Cuenco finished fifth, and Vicente Rama finished 16th. [4]

Not all candidates of the same party finished with the same number of votes, as some voted individually per candidate, instead of just writing the party name, and some didn't complete the 24 names if they did choose to vote individually per candidate.

CandidatePartyVotes%
Claro M. Recto [a] Nacionalista Party 1,084,00364.81
Manuel Roxas Nacionalista Party 1,076,38964.36
Quintin Paredes [a] Nacionalista Party 1,046,71562.58
Jose Yulo [a] Nacionalista Party 1,035,02561.88
Elpidio Quirino Nacionalista Party 1,013,09560.57
Antonio de las Alas [a] Nacionalista Party 1,002,85359.96
Emiliano Tria Tirona [a] Nacionalista Party 983,74058.82
Eulogio Rodriguez [a] Nacionalista Party 982,14458.72
Vicente Madrigal [a] Nacionalista Party 977,11958.42
Mariano Jesús Cuenco Nacionalista Party 974,68358.28
Melecio Arranz Nacionalista Party 973,40358.20
Carlos P. Garcia Nacionalista Party 972,03458.12
Ramon Torres Nacionalista Party 962,83657.57
Domingo Imperial Nacionalista Party 959,63357.38
Daniel Maramba Nacionalista Party 959,39057.36
Pedro Hernaez Nacionalista Party 949,23856.76
Ramón J. Fernández Nacionalista Party 947,79856.67
Jose Ozamiz Nacionalista Party 947,10656.63
Nicolas Buendia Nacionalista Party 944,31556.46
Esteban de la Rama Nacionalista Party 937,74656.07
Vicente Rama Nacionalista Party 934,25455.86
Proceso Sebastian [a] Nacionalista Party 930,17955.62
Alauya Alonto Nacionalista Party 919,34854.97
Rafael Martinez [b] Nacionalista Party 871,97152.14
Vicente Sotto Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 229,27613.71
Filemon Sotto Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 191,81511.47
Jose Alejandrino Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 128,0777.66
Jose Padilla Sr. Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 127,5577.63
Emilio Medina Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 125,8967.53
Eliseo Imzon Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 123,5407.39
Geronimo Santiago Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 120,0057.18
Manuel Briones Independent118,8047.10
Isabelo delos Reyes Jr. Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 117,3397.02
Sixto Lopez Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 116,8886.99
Juan Villamor Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 116,4376.96
Jose Palarca Sr. Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 115,0876.88
Raymundo Melliza Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 114,9876.88
Arsenio Suazo Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 110,2106.59
Angel Marin Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 110,0076.58
Jose M. Bayot Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 109,6676.56
Felicidad Climaco Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 109,6106.55
Julio A. Llorente Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 109,4806.55
Jose Gamboa Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 108,7986.51
Pedro Coleto Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 107,3656.42
Marcelino Lontok Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 104,1176.23
Mamerto Manalo Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 102,7986.15
Fernando Gardoqui Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 99,8895.97
Crisanto Evangelista Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 97,5545.83
Norberto Nabong Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 97,2315.81
Juan Feleo Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 96,7405.78
Jose M. Nava Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 94,8875.67
Angel Ancajas Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 91,0055.44
Lino Dizon Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 88,5475.29
Jose Casal Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 85,4035.11
Pablo Rocha Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 84,9965.08
Melchor Lagasca Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 82,0094.90
Antonio Paguia Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 80,4684.81
Mateo del Castillo Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 79,3684.75
Severino Izon Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 76,6824.58
Antonio Salvador Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 76,4134.57
Hadji Usman Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 76,3974.57
Pedro C. Castro Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 75,5584.52
Francisco Dematera Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 68,7734.11
Isabello Caballero Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 67,5884.04
Perfecto Reyes Ganap Party 65,0023.89
Mariano P. Balgos Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 64,7993.87
Alfredo Dumlao Ganap Party 64,5533.86
Manuel Joven Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 62,0063.71
Severo Dava Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 61,9563.70
Ciriaco V. Campomanes Ganap Party 57,4403.43
Vicente Pamatinat Ganap Party 55,2113.30
Ricardo Valdivia Ganap Party 55,0443.29
Narcisa Paguibitan Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 54,6323.27
Francisco Ramos Popular Front (Sumulong wing) [c] 54,1893.24
Datu Tampugao Pagayao Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 53,9533.23
Samson Palomares Ganap Party 50,4893.02
Esteban Coruna Ganap Party 50,1133.00
Fernando Mangson Ganap Party 48,7702.92
Eulalio Tolentino Ganap Party 48,5022.90
Prudencio Vega Ganap Party 47,8222.86
Antipas Soriano Ganap Party 47,3472.83
Francisco Robles Ganap Party 46,8832.80
Jose Jabeon Ganap Party 45,9842.75
Joaquin Flavier Ganap Party 44,9802.69
Pedro Zaragosa Ganap Party 44,6692.67
Francisco Afan Delgado Modernist Party41,8902.50
Antonio Ramos Ganap Party 40,0082.39
Aurelio Tankeko Ganap Party 37,9652.27
Sixto Bedrus Ganap Party 37,7142.25
Santiago Fonacier Modernist Party37,5032.24
Gaudencio Bautista Ganap Party 36,9122.21
Mariano Lumbre Ganap Party 36,7152.20
Flora YlaganModernist Party34,7302.08
Wenceslao Asistido Ganap Party 32,8031.96
Marcelino Chavez Ganap Party 30,0581.80
Florentino Subayno Ganap Party 28,4471.70
Josefina MartinezModernist Party25,5961.53
Pedro ArtecheModernist Party23,4411.40
Manuel LuzModernist Party20,0041.20
Vicente del RosarioModernist Party13,2590.79
Mariano delos SantosModernist Party11,4460.68
Honorio Caringal [d] Modernist Party00.00
Ignacio Nabong [d] Popular Front (Abad Santos wing) [c] 00.00
Total29,235,120100.00
Total votes1,672,504
Source: [ citation needed ]
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Detained for collaboration with the Japanese and were not able to take office.
  2. Substituted for Norberto Romualdez who died a few days before the election.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 The Popular Front was split into two wings: those who supported Pedro Abad Santos or the "Abad Santos wing" and those who supported Juan Sumulong or the "Sumulong wing".
  4. 1 2 Withdrew

Per party

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PartyVotes%Seats
Nacionalista Party 23,385,01779.9924
Popular Front (Sumulong wing)2,888,1039.880
Popular Front (Abad Santos wing)1,581,8965.410
Ganap Party 1,053,4313.600
Modernist Party207,8690.710
Independent118,8040.410
Total29,235,120100.0024
Source: [5]

See also

References

  1. Philippine Electoral Almanac. The Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office. 2013. p. 17. Archived from the original on 2014-04-09.
  2. Liang, Dapen. Philippine Parties & Politics: A Historical Study of National Experience in Democracy.
  3. Dooc, Emmanuel (2020-02-28). "Claro Mayo Recto: Champion of Filipino nationalism | Emmanuel Dooc". BusinessMirror. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  4. Oaminal, Clarence Paul. "Don Vicente Rama, the Cebuano who won in the 1941 Senatorial Election". Philstar.com. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  5. Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph. (Seat totals)