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2025 Philippine Senate election | |||
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12 (of the 24) seats to the Senate of the Philippines 13 seats needed for a majority | |||
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2025 Philippine House of Representatives elections | |||
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316 (or more) seats to the House of Representatives of the Philippines | |||
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The 2025 Philippine general election is a midterm election to be held on May 12,2025,the seats of the 12 senators elected in 2019 will be contested in this election. The senators that will be elected in this election will join the winners of the 2022 election to form the 20th Congress of the Philippines.
There will be 304 seats contested in the House of Representatives election,with 243 of them on the district elections and 61 on the party-list elections. There might also be new districts electing their first official. [ citation needed ]
This will be the first regular election for the Bangsamoro Parliament after the postponement of the 2022 election. [1]
The Philippines has a 24-member Senate elected at-large. Every three years since 1995, 12 seats are elected. Each voter has 12 votes, the voters can vote from one up to twelve candidates.
Senators are limited to serving two consecutive terms, although they can have a third non-consecutive term. [2] Only half of the seats are up in every senatorial election. [3] The winning senators will succeed the elected in 2019, and will join those elected in 2022 to form the 20th Congress.
Each party or coalition has or endorses a slate of candidates, mostly not exceeding a 12-person ticket. [4] A party may also choose to invite "guest candidates" to complete its slate. [5] The party may even include, with the candidates' consent, independent candidates and candidates from other parties as the party's guest candidates. Parties also may form coalitions to endorse a multi-party slate of candidates.
Winning candidates are proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC). The NBOC usually proclaims senators-elect by batches, if that candidate can no longer fall to worse than twelfth place in the tally. Post-proclamation disputes are handled by the Senate Electoral Tribunal, a body composed of six senators and three justices from the Supreme Court.
COMELEC is going to use new technology to handle the voting, replacing the Smartmatic's machines for the machines created by the Korean firm Miru Systems. [6]
The following positions were contested:
There will be a schedule regarding the 2025 Philippine general elections, [7] regarding:
Activity | Start | End |
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Voter registration | February 12, 2024 | August 31, 2024 |
Overseas voter registration | December 9, 2022 | September 30, 2024 |
Holding of political conventions | September 1, 2024 | September 28, 2024 |
Filing of certificates of candidacies | October 1, 2024 | October 8, 2024 |
Election period
| January 12, 2025 | June 11, 2025 |
Campaign period for nationally elected positions | February 11, 2025 | May 10, 2025 |
Campaign period for locally elected positions | March 28, 2025 | |
Voting for overseas voters | April 13, 2025 | May 12, 2025 |
Election silence (Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) | April 17, 2025 | April 18, 2025 |
Voting for local absentee voters in the Philippines | April 28, 2025 | April 30, 2025 |
Liquor ban | May 11, 2025 | May 12, 2025 |
Election day; voting for non-absentee voters in the Philippines | May 12, 2025 | |
Term of office of winning candidates for local officials and House representatives | June 30, 2025 | June 30, 2028 |
Term of office of winning candidates for senators | June 30, 2031 |
On May 8, 2024, Lakas–CMD and Partido Federal ng Pilipinas signed a pact creating the alliance Bagong Pilipinas for the 2025 elections. [8]
These candidates declared/has an intent to run for the 2025 Senate Elections.
# | Name | Party | Ref | |
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Lito Lapid | NPC | [9] | ||
Manny Pacquiao | PROMDI | [10] | ||
Bong Revilla | Lakas | [11] |
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