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Elections for the Senate of the Philippines were held on November 11, 1947, with eight of the 24 seats in the Senate being contested. These eight seats were elected regularly; the winners were eligible to serve six-year terms from December 30, 1947, until December 30, 1953. Gubernatorial and local elections were held on the same date.
Going into the 1947 election, the Senate consisted of nine Liberals, 14 Nacionalista, and one Popular Front (Vicente Y. Sotto). Of the seats up for election in 1947, all eight seats were held by Nacionalistas.
Senate President Jose Avelino, president of the Liberal Party, scored the opposition and said, "the Nacionalista Party of today is not the party of Quezon and Osmeña ... (it is) the party of Hukbalahaps and other dissident elements." In response, Nacionalista Party President Eulogio Rodriguez appealed for the voters to give the opposition a stronger mandate to fiscalize the administration, which they accused of being corrupt and incompetent. [1]
In the 1st Congress, the Liberals held 14 seats in the Senate, thereby retaining control of the Senate. The Liberals' total was reduced to 13 seats pursuant to the Senate Electoral Tribunal resolution in which Senator Carlos Tan (Liberal) was unseated and replaced by Eulogio Rodriguez (Nacionalista) in 1949.
Geronima Pecson became the first woman to be elected in the Senate.
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Key:
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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| Lorenzo Tañada | Liberal Party | 1,570,390 | 48.11 | |
| Vicente Madrigal | Liberal Party | 1,562,825 | 47.87 | |
| Geronima Pecson | Liberal Party | 1,559,511 | 47.77 | |
| Emiliano Tria Tirona | Liberal Party | 1,552,545 | 47.56 | |
| Fernando Lopez | Liberal Party | 1,543,830 | 47.29 | |
| Camilo Osías | Nacionalista Party | 1,512,196 | 46.32 | |
| Pablo Ángeles y David | Liberal Party | 1,489,014 | 45.61 | |
| Carlos Tan [lower-alpha 1] | Liberal Party | 1,480,305 | 45.35 | |
| Primitivo Lovina | Liberal Party | 1,473,888 | 45.15 | |
| Eulogio Rodriguez [lower-alpha 1] | Nacionalista Party | 1,346,174 | 41.24 | |
| Felixberto Serrano | Nacionalista Party | 1,236,649 | 37.88 | |
| Jose Maria Veloso | Nacionalista Party | 1,225,347 | 37.54 | |
| Emilio Javier | Nacionalista Party | 1,210,419 | 37.08 | |
| Sotero Cabahug | Nacionalista Party | 1,209,598 | 37.05 | |
| Jesus Barrera | Nacionalista Party | 1,201,329 | 36.80 | |
| Jose Imperial | Nacionalista Party | 1,172,741 | 35.92 | |
| Fabian R. Tenebro | Liberal Party | 33,785 | 1.03 | |
| Fabian Abellera | Liberal Party | 22,523 | 0.69 | |
| Ponciano Abordo | Young Philippines | 13,441 | 0.41 | |
| Hilario Moncado | Modernist Party | 11,261 | 0.34 | |
| Manuel Dikit | Modernist Party | 10,136 | 0.31 | |
| Rosendo Zaldarriaga | Democrat (Osmeña) | 9,010 | 0.28 | |
| Leonardo Tenebro | Modernist Party | 7,884 | 0.24 | |
| Melchor Lagasca | Goodwill Party | 1,641 | 0.05 | |
| Total | 22,456,442 | 100.00 | ||
| Total votes | 3,264,423 | – | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,233,528 | 77.11 | ||
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| Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | |||||
| Up | Before | Won | After | +/− | |||||
| Liberal Party | 12,241,929 | 54.47 | +6.76 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 15 | +4 | |
| Nacionalista Party | 10,114,453 | 45.00 | +3.78 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 8 | −4 | |
| Young Philippines | 13,441 | 0.06 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Goodwill Party | 1,641 | 0.01 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent | 102,998 | 0.46 | +0.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Popular Front | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 22,474,462 | 100.00 | – | 8 | 24 | 8 | 24 | 0 | |
| Total votes | 3,264,423 | – | |||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,233,528 | 77.11 | |||||||
| Source: Dieter Nohlen; Florian Grotz; Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos (15 November 2001). Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199249596. & Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph. | |||||||||
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