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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.
Philippine Senate elections are held via plurality block voting with staggered elections, with the country as an at-large district. The Senate has 24 seats, of which 8 seats are up every 2 years. The eight seats up were last contested in 1953; each voter has eight votes and can vote up to eight names, of which the eight candidates with the most votes winning the election.
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:
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Ferdinand Marcos | Liberal Party | 2,661,153 | 41.62 | |
Genaro Magsaysay | Nacionalista Party | 2,457,218 | 38.43 | |
Fernando Lopez | Nacionalista Party | 2,366,166 | 37.01 | |
Estanislao Fernandez | Liberal Party | 2,071,865 | 32.40 | |
Mariano Jesús Cuenco | Nacionalista Party | 2,046,842 | 32.01 | |
Eulogio Rodriguez | Nacionalista Party | 2,037,682 | 31.87 | |
Lorenzo Tañada | Nationalist Citizens' Party | 2,029,200 | 31.74 | |
Alejandro Almendras | Nacionalista Party | 1,857,782 | 29.06 | |
Edmundo B. Cea | Nacionalista Party | 1,764,436 | 27.60 | |
Emmanuel Pelaez | Party for Philippine Progress | 1,734,330 | 27.13 | |
Raul Manglapus | Party for Philippine Progress | 1,651,097 | 25.82 | |
Juan Pajo | Nacionalista Party | 1,623,637 | 25.39 | |
Manuel Manahan | Party for Philippine Progress | 1,512,512 | 23.66 | |
Sofronio Quimson | Nacionalista Party | 1,272,525 | 19.90 | |
Cornelio Villareal | Liberal Party | 1,266,826 | 19.81 | |
Terry Adevoso | Liberal Party | 1,035,147 | 16.19 | |
Jacinto Borja | Liberal Party | 1,021,281 | 15.97 | |
Jesus M. Vargas | Party for Philippine Progress | 1,001,981 | 15.67 | |
Esmeraldo Eco | Liberal Party | 947,261 | 14.82 | |
Duma Sinsuat | Liberal Party | 687,622 | 10.75 | |
Narciso Pimentel Jr. | Party for Philippine Progress | 621,915 | 9.73 | |
Osmundo Mondoñedo | Party for Philippine Progress | 537,729 | 8.41 | |
Alfredo Abcede | Federal Party | 27,383 | 0.43 | |
Valentin Festejo | Independent | 3,263 | 0.05 | |
Gualberto Cruz | Independent | 2,801 | 0.04 | |
Narciso J. Alegre | New Party | 2,596 | 0.04 | |
Emilio Alcutse Aninao | Independent | 2,379 | 0.04 | |
Natalio M. Beltran Jr | Cooperative Democratic Party | 2,286 | 0.04 | |
Gregorio Llanza | Independent | 1,727 | 0.03 | |
Consuelo Fa Alvear | Independent | 1,268 | 0.02 | |
Isaac Eceta | Independent | 1,209 | 0.02 | |
Chenchay Reyes Juta | Independent | 1,048 | 0.02 | |
Total | 34,252,167 | 100.00 | ||
Total votes | 6,393,724 | – | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 7,822,472 | 81.74 |
Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | |||||
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Up | Before | Won | After | +/− | |||||
Nacionalista Party | 15,426,288 | 45.04 | −2.86 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 19 | −1 | |
Liberal Party | 9,691,155 | 28.29 | −3.82 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | +2 | |
Progressive Party | 7,059,564 | 20.61 | +8.36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | |
Nationalist Citizens' Party | 2,029,200 | 5.92 | −1.11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Federal Party | 27,383 | 0.08 | +0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
New Party | 2,596 | 0.01 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cooperative Democratic Party | 2,286 | 0.01 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent | 13,695 | 0.04 | −0.44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Vacancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | ||||
Total | 34,252,167 | 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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