1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections

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1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections
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  1995 May 11, 1998 2001  

All 257 seats in the House of Representatives (including 38 underhang seats)
129 seats needed for a majority
Congressional district elections

All 206 seats from congressional districts
PartyVote %Seats+/–
Lakas 49.01111+11
LAMMP 26.6855+55
Liberal 7.2515+10
NPC 4.089−13
Reporma 3.954+4
PROMDI 2.404+4
Aksyon 0.441+1
Ompia 0.191+1
Others 1.424+4
Independent 3.422−5
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Party-list election

All 51 seats under the party-list system
PartyVote %Seats+/–
APEC 5.502+2
ABA 3.511+1
Alagad 3.411+1
VFP 3.331+1
PROMDI 2.791+1
AKO BAHAY 2.611+1
SCFO 2.601+1
Abanse! Pinay 2.571+1
Akbayan 2.541+1
Butil 2.361+1
Sanlakas 2.131+1
Coop-NATCCO 2.071+1
COCOFED 2.041+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker beforeSpeaker after
Jose de Venecia Jr.
Lakas
Manny Villar
LAMMP

Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 11, 1998. Held on the same day as the presidential election, the party of the incumbent president, Fidel V. Ramos' Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, won majority of the seats in the House of Representatives. [1] For the first time since the People Power Revolution, a party won majority of the seats in the House; Lakas had a seat over the majority. This is also the first Philippine elections that included the party-list system. [2]

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However, with Joseph Estrada of the opposition Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino (LAMMP; an electoral alliance between the Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), the NPC and the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP)) winning the presidential election, the majority of the elected Lakas-NUCD-UMDP congressmen switched sides to LAMMP. This led to Manuel Villar, Jr. (formerly of Lakas but became a LAMMP member prior to the election) on being elected as the Speaker of the House.

The elected representatives served in the 11th Congress from 1998 to 2001.

Electoral system

The House of Representatives shall have not more than 250 members, unless otherwise fixed by law, of which 20% shall be elected via the party-list system, while the rest are elected via congressional districts. This is the first time that there shall be a party-list election, after the passage of the Party-List System Act.

In this election, there are 206 seats voted via first-past-the-post in single-member districts. Each province, and a city with a population of 250,000, is guaranteed a seat, with more populous provinces and cities divided into two or more districts.

Congress has the power of redistricting three years after each census.

As there are 206 congressional districts, there shall be 51 seats available under the party-list system. According to the Party-List System Act, party is initially guaranteed a seat for every 2% of the vote, for up to three maximum seats.

Results

District elections

1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections results.svg
PartyVotes%+/–Seats+/–
Lakas–NUCD–UMDP 11,981,02449.01+8.35111+11
Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino 6,520,74426.68New55New
Liberal Party 1,773,1247.25+5.3915+10
Nationalist People's Coalition 998,2394.08−8.119−13
Partido para sa Demokratikong Reporma 966,6533.95New4New
Probinsya Muna Development Initiative 586,9542.40New4New
PDP–Laban 134,3310.55−0.130−1
Aksyon Demokratiko 106,8430.44New1New
Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino 47,2730.19New0New
Ompia Party 46,4620.19New1New
People's Reform Party 38,6400.16−0.7300
Kilusang Bagong Lipunan 35,5220.15New00
Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas 8,8500.04−0.0000
Lapiang Manggagawa 8,7920.04−0.5000
Nacionalista Party 4,4120.02−0.780−1
Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino 2,0100.01−0.520−1
Kilusan para sa Pambansang Pagpapabago1,3100.01New0New
Unaffiliated348,2811.42New4New
Independent834,9343.42−3.032−5
Party-list seats [lower-alpha 1] 51+51
Total24,444,398100.00257+37
Valid votes24,444,39883.47
Invalid/blank votes4,841,37716.53
Total votes29,285,775100.00
Registered voters/turnout33,873,66586.46
Source: Nohlen, Grotz and Hartmann [3] and Teehankee [4]
  1. Only 14 were seated in the party-list election.
Vote share
Lakas
49.01%
LAMMP
26.68%
LP
7.25%
NPC
4.08%
Reporma
3.95%
PROMDI
2.40%
Others
4.65%
District seats
Lakas
53.88%
LAMMP
26.70%
LP
7.28%
NPC
4.37%
Reporma
1.94%
PROMDI
1.94%
Others
3.89%

Party-list election

There were 52 seats for sectoral representatives that were contested. Each party has to get 2% of the national vote to win one seat; they would win an additional seat for every 2% of the vote, up to the maximum three seats. Only 14 party-list representatives were elected under this rule, leaving 38 unfilled seats. Eventually, the "2–4–6%" rule was ruled as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on October 6, 2000 on the case Veterans Federation Party, et. al. vs. COMELEC. [5] Despite this ruling, no additional seats were awarded to any party-lists.

PartyVotes%Seats
Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives 503,4875.502
Alyansang Bayanihan ng mga Magsasaka, Manggagawang Bukid at Mangingisda 321,6463.511
Alagad 312,5003.411
Veterans Federation Party 304,9023.331
Probinsya Muna Development Initiative 255,1842.791
Adhikain at Kilusan ng Ordinaryong Tao Para sa Lupa, Pabahay, Hanapbuhay at Kaunlaran 239,0422.611
National Federation of Small Coconut Farmers Organization 238,3032.601
Abanse! Pinay 235,5482.571
Akbayan 232,3762.541
Luzon Farmers Party 215,6432.361
Sanlakas 194,6172.131
Cooperative NATCCO Network Party 189,8022.071
Philippine Coconut Producers Federation 186,3882.041
Coalition of Associations of Senior Citizens in the Philippines 143,4441.570
Others5,582,42760.970
Total9,155,309100.0014
Valid votes9,155,30931.26
Invalid/blank votes20,130,46668.74
Total votes29,285,775100.00
Registered voters/turnout33,873,66586.46
Source: Supreme Court (October 6, 2000). "G.R. No. 136781".
and Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (eds.). Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook. Vol. 2: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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