Butil Farmers Party

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Butil Farmers Party
Founded2001
Ideology Agrarianism
Political position Centre-left
Colors  Green

The Butil Farmers Party (Butil), formerly the Luzon Farmers Party, is a political party in Luzon, Philippines. Butil is the electoral wing of the National Farmers Supreme Council (SANDUGO). [1]

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In the 2004 elections for the House of Representatives, the party got 429,259 votes (3.3742%) [2] and one seat (Benjamin A. Cruz). In the previous congress, the party had two seats, Benjamin A. Cruz and Leonila V. Chavez ('Ka Nellie'). [1]

The party supported the candidacy of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the 2004 election. [1]

Cruz died on October 15, 2004. His seat was filled by Chavez. [3] In the 14 May 2007 election, the party won one seat in the nationwide party-list vote.

Electoral performance

ElectionVotes%Seats1st representative2nd representative3rd representative
1998 215,6432.36%1Benjamin Cruz
2001 330,2822.18%2Benjamin CruzLeonila Chavez
2004 429,2593.37%1Benjamin Cruz [a]
Leonila Chavez
2007 409,1602.57%2Leonila Chavez [a] Agapito Guanlao
2010 506,7031.67%1Agapito Guanlao
2013 438,6011.60%1Agapito Guanlao
2016 395,0111.22%1Cecilia Leonila Chavez
2019 163,9270.59%0
2022 87,3050.24%0
  1. 1 2 Died in office

References

  1. 1 2 3 Philippines : Gov.Ph : News : Major farmers' group endorses GMA's Presidential bid (Printer friendly version)
  2. COMELEC Election Results Archived 2007-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Makati Business Club: CongressWatch Archived 2007-09-28 at archive.today