Local elections were held in the province of Pangasinan on May 12, 2025 as part of the 2025 Philippine general election. Pangasinan voters will elect a governor, a vice governor, 6 members of the House of Representatives that will represent the 6 congressional districts of the province, and 12 out of 15 members of the Pangasinan Provincial Board. The officials elected will assume their respective offices on June 25, 2025, for a three-year-long term.
Ramon Guico III and Mark Lambino were re-elected governor on his second term and vice governor on his third term respectively, defeating Amado Espino III and Noel Nacar.
In the 2022 local elections, the newly formed Abante Pangasinan Ilokano Party dominated the provincial board elections, winning 8 of the 12 seats in the provincial board. Incumbent Governor Amado Espino III lost re-election to Ramon Guico III, a congressman representing the 5th congressional district of the province, by a margin of 12 percentage points.
On October 5, 2024, Espino, alongside his running mate, Former Dasol mayor Noel Nacar, filed their certificate of candidacies at the COMELEC Office of the Provincial Election Supervisor at the People’s Astrodome. This was the first election in which the candidates were the same as those who ran for governor in the previous election.[3]
Electoral system
Local elections in the Philippines are held every second Monday of May starting in 1992 and every three years thereafter. Single-seat positions (governor, vice governor, and House representative) are elected via first-past-the-post-voting. The governor and vice governor are elected by the province at-large, while the House representative and provincial board members are elected per district.
provincial board elections are done via plurality block voting; Pangsinan is divided into six districts, with each district sending two board members. There are three other ex officio seats, the president of the Philippine Councilors’ League, the president of the Association of Barangay Captains, and the president of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Provincial Federation; these will be determined later in the year at the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections.
Campaign
Vote buying
On May 2025, congressional candidate Gilbert Estrella was implicated in reports of widespread vote-buying in Pangasinan’s 6th district. Representative Marlyn Primicias-Agabas asked the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and the Philippine National Police to investigate claims that Estrella’s supporters distributed about ₱3,000 per voter in the municipalities of Rosales, Balungao, and Asingan.[4]
Governor
Incumbent Governor Ramon Guico III (Nacionalista Party) is running for a second consecutive term. Guico was elected with 55.61% of the vote in 2022.
Pangasinan's 1st provincial district consists of the same area as Pangasinan's 1st legislative district. Two board members are elected from this provincial district.
Candidates
Apple Bacay (NP), provincial board member (1st district; since 2022)
Ricky Camba (API), municipal councilor of Bani (2013–2016)
Napoleon Fontelera, Jr. (NP), provincial board member (1st district; 2010–2019, since 2022)
Pangasinan's 2nd provincial district consists of the same area as Pangasinan's 2nd legislative district. Two board members are elected from this provincial district.
Candidates
Philip Theodore Cruz (NPC), provincial board member (2nd district; since 2022)
Pangasinan's 3rd provincial district consists of the same area as Pangasinan's 3rd legislative district. Two board members are elected from this provincial district.
Candidates
Shiela Baniqued (NP), provincial board member (3rd district; since 2022)
Joseph Arman Bauzon (API), mayor of Calasiao (2019–2022)
Eduardo Gonzales (PFM)
Generoso Tulagan, Jr. (NPC), provincial board member (3rd district; 2010–2019)
Vici Ventanilla (NP), provincial board member (3rd district; since 2019)
Pangasinan's 4th provincial district consists of the same area as Pangasinan's 4th legislative district, excluding the city of Dagupan. Two board members are elected from this provincial district.
Candidates
Noy de Guzman (NP), provincial board member (4th district; since 2022)
Jerry Rosario (NP), provincial board member (4th district; since 2016)
Aldrin Soriano (API), municipal councilor of Mangatarem (2022–2025)
Pangasinan's 5th provincial district consists of the same area as Pangasinan's 5th legislative district. Two board members are elected from this provincial district.
Pangasinan's 6th provincial district consists of the same area as Pangasinan's 6th legislative district. Two board members are elected from this provincial district.
Two prominent businesswomen are set to compete for this city’s mayoral seat in next year’s elections as incumbent Mayor Belen Fernandez is being challenged by Councilor Celia Lim, who officially filed her certificate of candidacy (COC) on Monday, Oct. 7.
Lim, running under the Nacionalista Party, was joined by her son, former Mayor Brian Lim, who is her vice mayoral candidate, along with their full slate of councilors.[5]
Patrick Caramat officially filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) for mayor of Calasiao, Pangasinan, following in the footsteps of his late mother, former Mayor Mamilyn Caramat.[9] Patrick is running unopposed.
Karl Vega runs for a 2nd term as Mayor of Mapandan. His opponent is Jaime Aquino, a publisher and correspondent of People's Journal, Manila Standard, The Daily Tribune at Manila Times.[10]
Incumbent Mayor Bonafe De Vera-Parayno, Vice Mayor Dr. Mark Stephen Mejia, and former Mayor Marilyn Lambino will be against each other for the position in the 2025 Mangaldan Mayoralty Election. Marilyn Lambino filed her COC earlier on October 5, seeking to reclaim her position.[11]
On December 7, 2024, Ponciano Onia Jr., a reelectionist councilor of Umingan and concurrent national president of Abono Partylist, was shot dead in an ambush by unidentified gunmen while driving.[12]
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