2025 Marikina local elections

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2025 Marikina local elections
  2022 May 12, 2025 (2025-05-12)2028 
Mayoral election

Incumbent Mayor

Marcelino Teodoro
UNA



Vice mayoral election

Incumbent Vice Mayor

Marion Andres
UNA



City Council election

16 of 18 seats in the Marikina City Council
10 seats needed for a majority
 
Party UNA Liberal
Last election14 seats, 55.04%2 seats, 16.83%

Incumbent Majority Party

Team MarCy
UNA



Local elections are scheduled to be held in Marikina on May 12, 2025, as part of the 2025 Philippine general election. The electorate will elect a mayor, a vice mayor, sixteen members of the Marikina City Council, and two district representatives to the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The officials elected in the election will assume their respective offices on June 30, 2025, for a three-year-long term.

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Background

In the 2022 elections, Marcelino Teodoro and Marion Andres were elected to the mayoralty and vice mayoralty respectively. [1] Their coalition, Team MarCy, attained outright control of the city council, winning 14 of the 16 elective seats in the legislature. [2]

Mayoral election

The incumbent mayor is Marcelino Teodoro, who has served since 2016 and was reelected in 2022 with 82.08% of the vote. Teodoro is term-limited and is barred from seeking reelection. This will be the first election since 2010 in which an incumbent mayor is ineligible for reelection.

Early in the race, incumbent representative Stella Quimbo, as well as her husband, former representative Miro Quimbo, emerged as potential candidates for the race, with the former expressing her interest in running. [3] [4]

Candidates

Potential

Polling

Hypothetical polling
Marjorie Ann Teodoro vs. Stella Quimbo
Fieldwork Date(s)PollsterSample SizeMoE Teodoro
UNA
Quimbo
Liberal
Und./
None
Feb 15–22RPMDinc [5] 1,200±3%36577

Vice mayoral election

The incumbent vice mayor is Marion Andres, who has served since 2019 and was reelected in 2022 with 69.94% of the vote. Andres is eligible for reelection to a third consecutive term.

City Council elections

The city council is composed of 18 members, 16 of which are elected to serve three-year terms. The sixteen seats are equally divided between the city's councilor districts, which are derived from the congressional districts. Each district has its own set of candidates, with the eight candidates with the most votes per district being elected to the council.

Term-limited incumbents

Among the 16 elective members, four members are term-limited and are barred from seeking reelection.

First district

  • Bodjie Bernardino (UNA)
  • Manny Sarmiento (UNA)

Second district

  • Levy De Guzman (UNA)
  • Donn Carlo Favis (UNA)

House of Representatives elections

Coinciding with the local elections, two representatives from the city's two congressional districts will be elected to represent their respective districts in the House of Representatives in the 20th Congress. In the 2022 elections, Marjorie Ann Teodoro and Stella Quimbo were elected to represent the first and second districts respectively. Both representatives are in the majority bloc in the 19th Congress.

First district

The first district covers the barangays of Barangka, Calumpang, Industrial Valley Complex, Jesus de la Peña, Malanday, San Roque, Santa Elena, Santo Niño and Tañong. The incumbent representative is Marjorie Ann Teodoro, who has served since 2022 and was elected that year with 73.61% of the vote. Teodoro is eligible for reelection to a second term.

Second district

The second district covers the barangays of Concepcion Uno, Concepcion Dos, Fortune, Marikina Heights, Parang, Nangka and Tumana. The incumbent representative is Stella Quimbo, who has served since 2019 and was reelected in 2022 with 82.70% of the vote. Quimbo is eligible for reelection to a third term.

Despite facing scrutiny with her defense of the policies of President Bongbong Marcos in the 19th Congress, Quimbo has stated that she will remain with the Liberal Party for the 2025 election. She has expressed interest in retiring to run for mayor. [4]

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