2013 Philippine House of Representatives elections

2013 Philippine House of Representatives elections

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All 293 seats to the House of Representatives of the Philippines 147 seats needed for a majority

Congressional district elections

Party % Seats +/– Liberal 37.56 109 +62 NPC 17.08 42 +13 UNA 11.17 8 +8 NUP 8.55 24 +24 Nacionalista 8.41 18 −7 Lakas 5.24 14 −92 Others 9.18 19 +7 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Party-list election

Party % Seats +/– Buhay 4.59 3 +1 A TEACHER 3.77 2 0 Bayan Muna 3.45 2 0 1-CARE 3.38 2 0 Akbayan 2.99 2 0 Abono 2.77 2 0 Ako Bikol 2.76 2 −1 OFW Family Club 2.72 2 +2 Gabriela 2.58 2 0 Senior Citizens 2.45 2 0 Coop-NATCCO 2.32 2 0 AGAP 2.14 2 +1 Others 32.85 28 +9 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. District election results; results for Metro Manila is magnified at the top right. Speaker before Speaker after Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Liberal Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Liberal

The 2013 Philippine House of Representatives elections were the 33rd lower house elections in the Philippines. They were held on May 13, 2013 to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines that would serve in the 16th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2013 to June 30, 2016.

The Philippines uses parallel voting for the House of Representatives: first past the post on 234 single member districts, and via closed party lists on a 2% election threshold computed via a modified Hare quota (3-seat cap and no remainders) on 58 seats, with parties with less than 1% of the first preference vote winning one seat each if 20% of the party-list seats are not filled up. Major parties are not allowed to participate in the party-list election.

While the concurrent Senate election features the two major coalitions in Team PNoy and the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), the constituent parties of the coalitions contested the lower house election separately, and in some districts, candidates from the same coalition in the Senate are contesting a single seat. Campaigns for the House of Representatives are done on a district-by-district basis; there is no national campaign conducted by the parties. No matter the election result, the party of the president usually controls the House of Representatives, via a grand coalition of almost all parties. Only the ruling Liberal Party can win a majority, as it is the only party to put up candidates in a majority of seats.

After release of preliminary results, the Liberal Party emerged as the largest party in the chamber. Its coalition partners also held most of their seats. Incumbent Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. was easily reelected as the Speaker of the 16th Congress.