2019 Zamboanga City local elections

2019 Zamboanga City local election

Registered	467,535 [1]
Turnout	61.28%
Mayoral election
←  2016 May 13, 2019 2022  →
Nominee Beng Climaco-Salazar Celso Lobregat Party Liberal PDP–Laban Running mate Rommel Agan (UNA) Melchor Rey Sadain Popular vote 140,362 107,621 Percentage 53.66% 41.14%
A map showing the results of the Zamboanga City mayoral election by barangay
Mayor before election Maria Isabelle Climaco Salazar Liberal Elected mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco Salazar Liberal
Vice mayoral election
Nominee Rommel Agan Melchor Sadain Roel Natividad Party UNA PDP–Laban PDDS Popular vote 104,976 101,360 44,655 Percentage 41.82% 40.38% 17.79%
A map showing the results of the Zamboanga City vice mayoral election by barangay
Vice Mayor before election Cesar Itturalde Independent Elected Vice Mayor Rommel Agan UNA

Local elections were held in Zamboanga City on May 13, 2019, within the Philippine general election. The voters elected for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, and eight councilors per district.

Retiring and term-limited elective officials

• Cesar Iturralde, incumbent Vice-Mayor, term-limited in 2019
• Rodolfo Bayot, incumbent District I councilor, term-limited in 2019
• Rommel Agan, incumbent District II councilor, term-limited in 2019

Candidates

Notes:

• bold means the candidate is incumbent and running for reelection on the same post;
• italic means the candidate previously run last 2016 election either on the same post or other posts;
• bold and italic means the candidate is an incumbent and is running for another position.

Position		Team Climaco Coalition			Team Colorao Coalition			Partido Federal ng Pilipinas			Pederalismo ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan			Other parties			Independents
Mayor			Liberal	Beng Climaco		PDP–Laban	Celso Lobregat		PFP	Sukarno Ikbala		PDDS	Christopher Miguel				Danilo Guevara Nur Sahibul
Vice Mayor			UNA	Rommel Agan		PDP–Laban	Melchor Sadain					PDDS	Roel "Elong" Natividad
Member of the House of Representatives	1st		NPC	Cesar Jimenez, Jr.		AZAP 1	Jose Lobregat					PDDS	Taib Nasaron		NUP	Rodolfo Bayot	Cesar Climaco, Jr. Daniel Nuevo Wendell Sotto
	2nd		NPC	Manuel Jose Dalipe		Nacionalista	Lilia Macrohon-Nuño										Erico Basilio Fabian Cesar Iturralde Jonathan Perez
Elected Members of the Zamboanga City Council	1st		Liberal	Elbert Atilano Josephine Pareja		PDP–Laban	Marxander Jaime "Boday" Cabato Pilarica Ledesma Rodolfo Lim Haj Sandag		PFP	Nur-Aisa Awis Ibnohajar Binang Crisanto "Monsi" dela Cruz 2 Edris Lim Rey Modillas Jerson Monteverde Wakil Tanjilil		PDDS	Abdulnasir Ablayan Jemar Barahim Nelson Bautista Regino Tanduyan, Jr. Marlon Torres				Shada dela Torre Edward Ducay Manuel Englis Nader Jalani Querubin Ramallosa
			PAZ 3	Joel Esteban Cesar Jimenez, Sr. Rikki Lim King Omaga Mohammad Ali Urao		LDP	Luis Biel III Joselito Macrohon Rogelio Valesco
			PFP	Crisanto "Monsi" dela Cruz 2		AZAP 1	Khymer Adan Olaso
	2nd		Liberal	Teodyver Arquiza Jimmy Villaflores		PDP–Laban	Frederick Atilano Vincent Paul Elago Benjamin Guingona IV Richard Mariano Lilibeth Nuño Mark Saavedra Marlon Simbajon		PFP	Zayd Ocfemia		PDDS	Billy Girvan, Jr. Isabel Gutierrez Roel Natividad, Jr.				Ju-Ed Alvarez Elijah John Inclan Jade Jamolod
			UNA	Al-Jihan Edding Juan Climaco Elago II
			Lakas–CMD	John Dalipe Samuel Natividad		LDP	Miguel Alavar III
			APP 4	Hector Perez Eduardo Saavedra

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Notes

¹ Adelante Zamboanga Party

² Dela Cruz is also a guest candidate of Team Climaco Coalition.

³ Partido Prosperidad y Amor para na Zamboanga

⁴ Aggrupation of Parties for Progress

Results

The candidates for district representative, mayor, and vice mayor, with the highest number of votes, wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore they may be of different parties when elected. ^[4]

House of Representatives election

1st District

Incumbent Congressman Celso Lobregat ran for Mayor against former ally, Beng Climaco. ^[5]

2019 Philippine House of Representatives election at Zamboanga City's 1st district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NPC	Cesar Jimenez, Jr.	37,099	31.44%	N/A
	AZAP	Jomar Lobregat	28,605	24.23%	N/A
	NUP	Rodolfo Bayot	27,626	23.41%	N/A
	Independent	Cesar Climaco	14,308	12.12%	N/A
	Independent	Wendell Sotto	6,684	5.66%	N/A
	PDDS	Taib Nasaron	3,051	2.58%	+0.98%
	Independent	Daniel Nuevo	635	0.53%	N/A
Total votes			118,008	100.0%
	NPC gain from PDP–Laban

2nd District

District II Representative Manuel Jose Dalipe ran for reelection against former Congresswoman Lilia Macrohon-Nuño, former Congressman Erbie Fabian, and outgoing Vice-Mayor Cesar Iturralde.

2019 Philippine House of Representatives election at Zamboanga City's 2nd district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NPC	Mannix Dalipe (incumbent)	77,521	60.98%	+5.68%
	Nacionalista	Lilia Macrohon-Nuño	30,395	23.91%	−15.29%
	Independent	Cesar Iturralde	11,250	8.84%	N/A
	Independent	Erbie Fabian	5,929	4.66%	N/A
	Independent	Jonathan Perez	2,025	1.59%	N/A
Total votes			127,120	100.00%
	NPC hold

Mayoral elections

Incumbent Mayor Beng Climaco ran for reelection for her third and final term.

2019 Zamboanga City mayoral election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Beng Climaco (incumbent)	140,362	53.66%	−15.94%
	PDP–Laban	Celso Lobregat	107,621	41.14%	N/A
	PFP	Sukarno Ikbala	11,938	4.56%	N/A
	PDDS	Christopher Miguel	857	0.32%	N/A
	Independent	Danilo Guevara	761	0.29%	N/A
Total votes			261,539	100.00%
	Liberal hold

Vice-mayoral elections

Incumbent and outgoing Vice-Mayor Cesar Iturralde ran for the congressional seat in District II. All candidates for vice-mayor were either incumbent or former city councilors.

2019 Zamboanga City Vice Mayoral Election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UNA	Rommel Agan	104,976	41.82%	N/A
	PDP–Laban	Melchor Rey Sadain	101,360	40.38%	+9.98%
	PDDS	Roel Natividad	44,655	17.79%	N/A
Total votes			250,991	100.00%
	UNA gain from Independent

City Council elections

Each of Zamboanga City's two legislative districts elects eight councilors to the City Council. The eight candidates with the highest number of votes wins the seats per district.

2019 Zamboanga City Council election

←  2016 May 13, 2019 2022 →
All 8 seats from each of Zamboanga City's two legislative districts 10 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Celso Lobregat Beng Climaco Rommel Agan Party PDP–Laban Liberal UNA Alliance Team Colorao Team Climaco Team Climaco Leader's seat 1st District 1st District 2nd District Seats before 4 4 2 Seats won 3 3 2 Seat change 1 1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jomar Lobregat Cesar Jimenez, Sr. John Dalipe Party AZAP PAZ Lakas Alliance Team Colorao Team Climaco Team Climaco Leader's seat 1st District 1st District 2nd District Seats before 0 1 0 Seats won 1 2 1 Seat change 1 2 1   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Eduardo Saavedra Miguel Alavar III Sukarno Ikbala Party APP LDP PFP Alliance Team Climaco Team Colorao PFP Leader's seat 2nd District 2nd District 2nd District Seats before 0 3 0 Seats won 0 3 1 Seat change 1

Party		Party leader	Total votes		Total seats
			Total	%	Total	%
	PDP–Laban	Celso Lobregat
	Liberal	Beng Climaco
	UNA	Rommel Agan
	AZAP	Jomar Lobregat
	Partido Prosperidad y Amor para na Zamboanga	Cesar Jimenez, Sr.
	Lakas	John Dalipe
	APP	Eduardo Saavedra
	LDP	Miguel Alavar III
	PFP	Sukarno Ikbala
	Independents	Varies			0	0.0%
Total valid votes cast				N/A
Total turnout
Total partisan seats					16	84.2%
Seat for Association of Barangay Captains President					1	5.2%
Seat for Association of Sangguniang Kabataan chairmen President					1	5.2%
Seat for Mandatory Representative for Indigenous Peoples					1	5.2%
Total non-partisan seats					3	15.7%
Total seats					19	100.0%

1st District

Council election at Zamboanga City's 1st district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Josephine Pareja (incumbent)	75,546	8.81%
	Liberal	Elbert Atilano (incumbent)	61,638	7.19%
	AZAP	Khymer Adan Olaso	54,644	6.37%
	LDP	Joselito Macrohon (incumbent)	54,050	6.30%
	LDP	Rogelio Valesco (incumbent)	52,516	6.12%
	PAZ	Cesar Jimenez, Sr. (incumbent)	50,673	5.91%
	PFP	Crisanto "Monsi" dela Cruz	50,558	5.89%
	PAZ	King Omaga	47,240	5.51%
	PDP–Laban	Rodolfo Lim (incumbent)	46,363	5.41%
	PDP–Laban	Marxander Jaime Cabato (incumbent)	46,276	5.39%
	LDP	Luis Biel III	38,863	4.53%
	PAZ	Joel Esteban	37,345	4.35%
	PDP–Laban	Pilarica Ledesma	31,784	3.70%
	PAZ	Mohammad Ali Urao	28,070	3.27%
	PDDS	Marlon Torres	22,266	2.59%
	PAZ	Rikki Lim	20,054	2.34%
	PFP	Wakil Tanjilil	19,713	2.30%
	PDP–Laban	Haj Sandag	16,485	1.92%
	PFP	Edris Lim	12,840	1.49%
	Independent	Nader Jalani	11,088	1.29%
	PFP	Rey Modillas	10,414	1.21%
	PDDS	Jemar Barahim	9,253	1.07%
	Independent	Edward Ducay	8,267	0.96%
	PDDS	Abdulnasir Ablayan	8,219	0.95%
	PDDS	Nelson Bautista	7,809	0.91%
	PFP	Jerson Monteverde	6,861	0.80%
	PFP	Ibnohajar Binang	6,847	0.79%
	PFP	Sisang Awis	6,664	0.77%
	Independent	Shada dela Torre	5,085	0.59%
	Independent	Manuel Englis	3,810	0.44%
	Independent	Querubin Ramallosa	3,434	0.40%
	PDDS	Regino Tanduyan, Jr.	2,293	0.26%
Total votes			856,968	100.00%

2nd District

Council election at Zamboanga City's 2nd district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lakas	John Dalipe	85,745
	PDP–Laban	Benjamin Guingona IV (incumbent)	66,819
	UNA	Juan Climaco Elago II (incumbent)	64,548
	PDP–Laban	Lilibeth Nuño (incumbent)	60,819
	LDP	Miguel Alavar III (incumbent)	60,430
	UNA	Al-Jihan Edding (incumbent)	59,798
	Liberal	Jimmy Villaflores (incumbent)	58,341
	PDP–Laban	Vincent Paul Elago	50,603
	APP	Eduardo Saavedra	50,345
	PDP–Laban	Frederick Atilano	45,538
	PDP–Laban	Richard Mariano	41,868
	PDP–Laban	Marlon Simbajon	39,089
	Liberal	Teodyver Arquiza (incumbent)	38,875
	PDP–Laban	Mark Saavedra	36,572
	APP	Hector Perez	32,886
	PDDS	Roel Natividad, Jr.	27,094
	Lakas	Samuel Natividad	23,458
	Independent	Jade Jamolod	8,780
	PFP	Zayd Ocfemia	8,472
	Independent	Ju-Ed Alvarez	6,870
	Independent	Elijah John Inclan	6,243
	PDDS	Isabel Gutierrez	4,816
	PDDS	Billy Girvan, Jr.	3,590
Total votes

See also

• Philippine House of Representatives elections in the Zamboanga Peninsula, 2019
• 2019 Philippine general election
• 2022 Zamboanga City local elections

References

1. "Number and Turn-Out of Registered Voters and Voters Who Actually Voted by City/Municipality". Commission on Elections. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
2. "Certified List of Candidates in Zamboanga del Sur" (PDF). Commission on Elections (Philippines). Commission on Elections (Philippines). Retrieved 27 April 2019.
3. Garcia, Bong (October 19, 2018). "76 Zamboanga aspirants file COCs for 2019 polls". Sun Star. Sun Star. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
4. "2019 National and Local Elections". Commission on Elections. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
5. Garcia, Teofilo. "Zamboanga City 'political giants' file COCs for 2019 polls". Philippine News Agency. Retrieved 27 April 2019.

External links

• Official website of the Commission on Elections
• Official website of National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL)
• Official website of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV)
• Rappler #PHVOTE 2019: Local Races