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A senatorial election was held on November 10, 1959 in the Philippines. The 1959 elections were known as the 1959 Philippine midterm elections as the date when the elected officials take office falls halfway through President Carlos P. Garcia's four-year term.
The Liberal Party continued chipping away from the Nacionalista Party's dominance in the Senate, winning two more seats, although the Nacionalistas still possessed 19 out of 24 seats in the chamber.
The Nacionalista Party won five seats contested in the election, while the Liberal Party won two, and the Nationalist Citizens' Party won one.
Lorenzo Tañada of the Nationalist Citizens' Party and Nacionalistas Mariano Jesús Cuenco, Fernando Lopez, and Eulogio Rodriguez defended their Senate seats. Lopez was originally from the Democratic Party, and ran as a Nacionalista on this election.
The two winning Liberals are neophyte senators: Estanislao Fernandez and Ferdinand Marcos. Also entering the Senate for the first time are Nacionalistas Alejandro Almendras and Genaro Magsaysay.
Incumbent Nacionalista senators Edmundo B. Cea and Emmanuel Pelaez both lost.
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Key:
Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||
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1 | Ferdinand Marcos | Liberal | 2,661,153 | 41.6% | ||
2 | Genaro Magsaysay | Nacionalista | 2,457,218 | 38.4% | ||
3 | Fernando Lopez | Nacionalista | 2,366,166 | 37.0% | ||
4 | Estanislao Fernandez | Liberal | 2,071,865 | 32.4% | ||
5 | Mariano Jesús Cuenco | Nacionalista | 2,046,842 | 32.0% | ||
6 | Eulogio Rodriguez | Nacionalista | 2,037,682 | 31.9% | ||
7 | Lorenzo Tañada | NCP | 2,029,200 | 31.7% | ||
8 | Alejandro Almendras | Nacionalista | 1,857,782 | 29.1% | ||
9 | Edmundo B. Cea | Nacionalista | 1,764,436 | 27.6% | ||
10 | Emmanuel Pelaez | Progressive (Grand Alliance) | 1,734,330 | 27.1% | ||
11 | Raul Manglapus | Progressive (Grand Alliance) | 1,651,097 | 25.8% | ||
12 | Juan Pajo | Nacionalista | 1,623,637 | 25.4% | ||
13 | Manuel Manahan | Progressive (Grand Alliance) | 1,512,512 | 23.7% | ||
14 | Sofronio Quimson | Nacionalista | 1,272,525 | 19.9% | ||
15 | Cornelio Villareal | Liberal | 1,266,826 | 19.8% | ||
16 | Eleuterio Adevoso | Liberal | 1,035,147 | 16.2% | ||
17 | Jacinto Borja | Liberal | 1,021,281 | 16.0% | ||
18 | Jesus M. Vargas | Progressive (Grand Alliance) | 1,001,981 | 15.7% | ||
19 | Esmeraldo Eco | Liberal | 947,261 | 14.8% | ||
20 | Duma Sinsuat | Liberal | 687,622 | 10.8% | ||
21 | Narciso Pimentel, Jr. | Progressive (Grand Alliance) | 621,915 | 9.7% | ||
22 | Osmundo Mondoñedo | Progressive (Grand Alliance) | 537,729 | 8.4% | ||
23 | Alfredo Abcede | Federal Party | 27,383 | 0.4% | ||
24 | Valentin Festejo | Independent | 3,263 | 0.1% | ||
25 | Gualberto Cruz | Independent | 2,801 | 0.0% | ||
26 | Narciso J. Alegre | New Party | 2,596 | 0.0% | ||
27 | Emilio Alcutse Aninao | Independent | 2,379 | 0.0% | ||
28 | Natalio M. Beltran Jr | Cooperative Democratic Party | 2,286 | 0.0% | ||
29 | Gregorio Llanza | Independent | 1,727 | 0.0% | ||
30 | Consuelo Fa Alvear | Independent | 1,268 | 0.0% | ||
31 | Isaac Eceta | Independent | 1,209 | 0.0% | ||
32 | Chenchay Reyes Juta | Independent | 1,048 | 0.0% | ||
Total turnout | 6,393,724 | 81.7% | ||||
Total votes | 28,108,309 | N/A | ||||
Registered voters | 7,822,472 | 100.0% | ||||
Note: A total of 32 candidates ran for senator. | Source: [1] |
Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | |||||
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Nacionalista Party | 17,160,618 | 50.10 | +2.88 | 6 | 20 | 5 | 19 | −1 | |
Liberal Party | 10,850,799 | 31.68 | −0.10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | +2 | |
Progressive Party | 3,163,609 | 9.24 | −2.83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Nationalist Citizens' Party | 2,029,200 | 5.92 | −1.02 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Federal Party | 27,383 | 0.08 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cooperative Democratic Party | 2,286 | 0.01 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent | 1,015,676 | 2.97 | +2.50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Vacancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | ||||
Total | 34,249,571 | 100.00 | – | 8 | 24 | 8 | 24 | 0 | |
Total votes | 6,393,724 | – | |||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 7,822,472 | 81.74 | |||||||
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. ISBN 9780199249596. & Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph. |
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