List of vice governors of Cebu

Vice Governor of Cebu
Seal of the Cebu Provincial Government
Incumbent Glenn Soco since June 30, 2025
Seat	Cebu Provincial Capitol
Nominator	Political party
Appointer	Elected via popular vote
Term length	3 years Up to three terms
Inaugural holder	Julio A. Llorente
Formation	June 18, 1898

The Vice Governor of Cebu (Filipino : Pangalawang Punong Lalawigan ng Cebu) is the presiding officer of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the legislature of the provincial government of Cebu, Philippines. ^[1]

The current vice governor is Glenn Soco of One Cebu.

History

On June 18, 1898, then President Emilio Aguinaldo promulgated a decree delegating Julio A. Llorente and Segundo Singson as Vice Governor of the Cebu province. ^[2]

From an appointive position, the office of the Vice Governor become an elective post. The first election to vote for the Vice Governor was conducted in 1959 where Francisco Remotigue won, becoming the first elected Cebu Vice Governor. ^[3]

In May 2011, Agnes Magpale, niece of former Vice Governor Priscillano D. Almendras, became the first female Vice Governor after succeeding to the office upon the death of incumbent Gregorio Sanchez Jr. ^[4] She was elected to two full terms in her own right in 2013 and 2016. Hilario Davide III won as Vice Governor in 2019 and 2022, although his running mates Magpale and Ace Durano both lost to Garcia. ^[5]

In 2025 Cebu local elections, Board Member Glenn Soco of 1Cebu defeated independent candidate and former Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Joselito Ruiz. However, Soco's running mate Garcia lost to neophyte Pam Baricuatro of PDP. ^[6]

List of Vice Governors of Cebu

The following is the list of past and incumbent Vice Governors of the Province of Cebu: ^[2]

List of Vice Governors of Cebu

No. [a]	Image	Vice Governor Lifespan	Party [b]		Term	Place of Origin	Governor
1		Julio Aballe Llorente 1863—1955, aged 91-92 [2] [7]		Independent	1899	Argao		Luis Flores (1899, Municipal Council President)
2		Segundo Suico Singson 1845—1911, aged 65-66 [2] [8]		Independent	1899 – 1900	Cebu City		Julio Aballe Llorente 1899—1901
Office vacant: 1900–1960
3		Francisco Emilio Famor Remotigue 1908—1995, aged 86 [2]		Nacionalista	1960 – 1961	Argao		Jose Lorenzo Briones (Liberal) 1955—1961
Office vacant: 1961–1963
4		Priscillano Durano Almendaras [2] [4]			1963 – 1967	Danao City		Jesus Marino "Rene" Gandiongco Espina (Liberal) 1963—1969
5		Osmundo Genson Rama 1914—1998, aged 84 [2]		Nacionalista	1968 – 1969	Cebu City
6		Pablo Paras Garcia 1925—2021, aged 95 [2]			1970 – 1971	Dumanjug		Osmundo Genson Rama (Liberal) 1969—1976
7		Salutario Jakosalem Fernandez 1927-1990, aged 63 [2] [9] [10]			1972 – 1975	Cebu City
Office vacant: 1975–1980
8		Ramon Duterte Durano III b. 1948 [2]		KBL	1980 – 1984	Danao City		Eduardo Rivera Gullas Sr. (KBL) 1976—1986
9		Beatriz Durano Calderon [2]		KBL	1985 – 1986 [c]	Danao City
10		Democrito Canaya Barcenas1 b. 1934-1935 [2] [11]			1986 [c] – 1987	Carcar City		Osmundo Genson Rama 1 (Liberal) 1986—1988
11		Enrique Ponce Rama [2]			1988 – June 30, 1992	Cebu City		Emilio Mario "Lito" Renner Osmeña (Lakas-NUCD) 1998—1992
12		Apolonio Andrade Abines Jr. 1920—2004, aged 83 [2] [12]			June 30, 1992 – June 30, 1998	Oslob
								Pablo Paras Garcia (LDP → PROMDI) 1995—2004
13		Fernando S. Celeste b. 1939 [2] [13]			June 30, 1998 – June 30, 2001	Talisay City or Badian
14		John Gregory Henry Osmeña Jr. b. 1971-1972 [2]			June 30, 2001 – June 30, 2004	Cebu City
15		Gregorio Gallarde Sanchez Jr.† 1943/1944 — 2011, aged 68 [14]		Liberal Local: 1Cebu	June 30, 2004 – May 10, 2011	Tuburan		Gwendolyn Fiel Garcia (LAKAS / 1Cebu) 2004—2013
16		Agnes Almendras Magpale b. 1942 [2] [5]		Liberal Local: BAKUD	May 10, 2011 – June 30, 2019	Danao City
								Hilario Perez Davide III (Liberal) 2013—2019
17		Hilario Perez Davide III b. 1964 [15]		Liberal Local: BAKUD	June 30, 2019 – June 30, 2025	Cebu City		Gwendolyn Fiel Garcia (PDP-Laban / 1Cebu) 2019—2025
18		Glenn Anthony Ocampo Soco b. 1973 [6] [16]		1Cebu	June 30, 2025 – Incumbent	Mandaue City		Pamela Silagan Baricuatro (PDP) 2025—present

Notes

1. Numbers are counted based on the amount of individuals who have served as Mayor, rather than the amount of terms or administrations. Officials temporarily serving as Acting Mayor due to the absence (e.g. suspension) of the elected mayor, who revert to their original offices afterwards, are not counted.
2. A two-party system between the Nacionalistas and Liberals was in place from the postwar period (1946) up until the Marcos dictatorship, which was dominated by Marcos's Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL). After his overthrow in the 1986 EDSA Revolution, a multi-party system emerged which remains in place until the present; local politics revolves around local alliances, which commonly change national political parties with every new Presidential administration.
3. Following the 1986 EDSA Revolution, President Corazon Aquino forced the resignation of all local government heads and appointed Officers in Charge (OICs) in their place to serve until the 1988 elections.

Designations

¹Appointed OIC
^†Died in office

Vice Governors of Cebu by Hometown

Hometown	Total	Vice Governors
Cebu City (Capital)	6	Singson, O. Rama, Fernandez, E. Rama, Osmeña, Davide
Argao	2	Llorente, Remotigue
Carcar City	1	Barcenas
Danao City	4	Almendras, Durano, Calderon, Magpale
Dumanjug	1	Garcia
Mandaue City	1	Soco
Oslob	1	Abines
Talisay City	1	Celeste
Tuburan	1	Sanchez

See also

• List of governors of Cebu
• Cebu Provincial Board

References

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