2016 Philippine House of Representatives elections

2016 Philippine House of Representatives elections

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All 297 seats to the House of Representatives of the Philippines 149 seats needed for a majority

Congressional district elections

Party % Seats +/– Liberal 41.72 115 +6 NPC 17.04 42 0 NUP 9.67 23 −1 Nacionalista 9.42 24 +6 UNA 6.62 11 +3 Others 12.41 22 −2 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Party-list election

Party % Seats +/– Ako Bicol 5.14 3 +1 Gabriela 4.22 2 0 1-Pacman 4.05 2 +2 ACT Teachers 3.65 2 +1 Senior Citizens 3.05 2 0 KABAYAN 2.60 2 +2 Agri-Agra 2.58 2 +1 PBA 2.41 2 +2 Buhay 2.35 2 −1 Abono 2.26 2 0 Anak Mindanao 2.18 2 +1 Coop-NATCCO 2.07 2 0 Others 41.45 34 +4 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Election results; map refers to results from congressional districts, with Metro Manila at the inset, while the boxes to the right represent party-list seats. Speaker before Speaker after Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Liberal Pantaleon Alvarez PDP–Laban

The 2016 Philippine House of Representatives elections were the 34th lower house elections in the Philippines. They were held on May 9, 2016, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The winning candidates were to comprise the House's contingent in the 17th Congress of the Philippines that would serve from June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2019.

The House of Representatives elections were part of the 2016 general election where elections for President, Vice President, Senators, and all local officials, including those from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, were also held.

The Philippines uses parallel voting in its lower house elections. There are 297 seats in the House; 238 of these are district representatives, and 59 are party-list representatives. The law mandates that there should be one party-list representative for every four district representatives. District representatives are elected under the plurality voting system from single-member districts. Party-list representatives are elected via the nationwide vote with a 2% "soft" election threshold, with a 3-seat cap. The party in the party-list election with the most votes usually wins three seats, the other parties with more than 2% of the vote two seats, and the parties with less than 2% of the vote winning a seat each if the 20% quota is not met.