2004 Philippine presidential election

2004 Philippine presidential election

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Turnout	76.3% 10.2%
Candidate Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Fernando Poe Jr. Party Lakas KNP Running mate Noli de Castro Loren Legarda Popular vote 12,905,808 11,782,232 Percentage 39.99% 36.51%   Candidate Panfilo Lacson Raul Roco Party LDP (Aquino wing) Aksyon Running mate Herminio Aquino Popular vote 3,510,080 2,082,762 Percentage 10.88% 6.45%
Results per province/city: colors indicate which candidate had the highest number votes in a province/city.
President before election Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Lakas Elected President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Lakas
2004 Philippine vice presidential election
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Candidate Noli de Castro Loren Legarda Party Independent KNP Popular vote 15,100,431 14,218,709 Percentage 49.80% 46.89%
Map showing the official results taken from provincial and city certificates of canvass. The inset shows Metro Manila.
Vice President before election Teofisto Guingona Jr. Independent Elected Vice President Noli de Castro Independent

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The 2004 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on Monday, May 10, 2004. In the presidential election, incumbent president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo won a full six-year term as President, with a margin of over one million votes over her leading opponent, movie actor Fernando Poe Jr.

The elections were notable for several reasons. This election first saw the implementation of the Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003 (see Wikisource), which enabled Filipinos in over 70 countries to vote. This is also the first election since the 1986 People Power Revolution where an incumbent president ran for re-election. Under the 1987 Constitution, an elected president cannot run for another term. However, Arroyo was not elected president, but instead succeeded ousted President Joseph Estrada, who was impeached with charges of plunder and corruption in 2000 and later convicted of plunder (but received conditional pardon from Arroyo).

Moreover, this elections was the first time since 1986 that both the winning president and vice president were under the same party/coalition; this instance will be later repeated in 2022 when Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte under the same political coalition was elected president and vice president, respectively.

This election was also held at a period in modern Philippines marked by serious political polarization. This resulted in lesser candidates for the presidential and vice presidential elections compared to the 1992 and 1998 elections.