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All 104 seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines 53 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on November 9, 1965. Held on the same day as the presidential election, the party of the incumbent president, Diosdado Macapagal's Liberal Party, won a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives. [1] Despite Ferdinand Marcos of the opposition Nacionalista Party winning the presidential election, Liberal Party congressmen did not defect to the Nacionalista Party. This led to Cornelio Villareal being retained Speaker of the House after retaking it from Daniel Romualdez midway during the previous Congress.
The elected representatives served in the 6th Congress from 1965 to 1969.
The House of Representatives has at most 120 seats, 104 seats for this election, all voted via first-past-the-post in single-member districts. Each province is guaranteed at least one congressional district, with more populous provinces divided into two to seven districts.
Congress has the power of redistricting three years after each census.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Liberal Party | 3,721,460 | 51.32 | +17.61 | 61 | +32 | |
Nacionalista Party | 3,028,224 | 41.76 | −19.26 | 38 | −36 | |
Liberal Party (independent) | 107,001 | 1.48 | +0.74 | 1 | New | |
Nacionalista Party (independent) | 71,955 | 0.99 | +0.36 | 1 | New | |
Party for Philippine Progress | 41,983 | 0.58 | +0.58 | 0 | 0 | |
Young Philippines | 12,479 | 0.17 | New | 0 | 0 | |
Republican Party | 85 | 0.00 | New | 0 | 0 | |
Independent | 268,327 | 3.70 | −0.08 | 3 | +2 | |
Total | 7,251,514 | 100.00 | – | 104 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 7,251,514 | 95.29 | −0.12 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 358,537 | 4.71 | +0.12 | |||
Total votes | 7,610,051 | 100.00 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,962,345 | 76.39 | −3.04 | |||
Source: Nohlen, Grotz and Hartmann [3] and Teehankee [4] |