2010 Philippine House of Representatives elections

2010 Philippine House of Representatives elections

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All 286 seats to the House of Representatives of the Philippines 144 seats needed for a majority

Congressional district elections

Party % Seats +/– Lakas–Kampi 37.41 106 +106 Liberal 19.93 47 +24 NPC 15.97 29 +1 Nacionalista 11.35 25 +14 Others 12.78 22 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Party-list election

Party % Seats +/– Ako Bicol 5.06 3 +3 Senior Citizens 4.31 2 +1 Buhay 4.16 2 −1 Akbayan 3.53 2 0 Gabriela 3.35 2 0 Coop-NATCCO 3.14 2 0 1-CARE 2.56 2 +2 Abono 2.55 2 0 Bayan Muna 2.49 2 −1 An Waray 2.37 2 0 CIBAC 2.17 2 0 A TEACHER 2.05 2 0 Others 30.47 32 +12 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. District election results (80% of the seats), with Metro Manila on the inset, and party-list seats indicated by black boxes. Speaker before Speaker after Prospero Nograles Lakas–Kampi Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Liberal

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The 2010 Philippine House of Representatives elections were held on May 10, 2010, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines to serve in the 15th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2010, to June 30, 2013. The Philippines uses parallel voting for seats in the House of Representatives; a voter has two votes: one for a representative from one's legislative district, and another for a sectoral representative via closed lists under the party-list system, with a 2% election threshold and 3-seat cap, when the parties with 2% of the national vote or more not meeting the 20% of the total seats, parties with less than 2% of the vote will get one seat each until the 20% requirement is met.

In district elections, 229 single-member districts elect one member of the House of Representatives. The candidate with the highest number of votes wins that district's seat. In the party-list election, parties will dispute 57 seats. In all, the 15th Congress will have 286 members, with 144 votes being the majority. No party entered candidates in all districts, but only Lakas Kampi CMD entered enough candidates to win an outright majority.

By May 21, GMA News and Public Affairs, based on their partial and unofficial tally, had Lakas Kampi CMD with the party with the most seats with 109, followed by the Liberal Party with 43, the Nationalist People's Coalition had 33, and the Nacionalista Party had 25. The other parties garnered 13 seats. This includes candidates who switched parties after the campaign period has begun, while excluding party-list representatives.^[1]

In the party-list election, Ako Bicol Political Party topped the election getting 5% of the national vote and won three seats, but their proclamation was delayed as a disqualification case against them was brought up; their first three nominees were subsequently seated with the dismissal of the case.^[2] As much as 43 other parties qualified to win seats, and all but two were yet to be seated due to pending disqualification cases.

Despite being the party leader and winning a congressional seat in Pampanga, Lakas Kampi CMD leader and sitting president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had reportedly declined to run as Speaker and is fielding Edcel Lagman of Albay on the basis of term–sharing with Danilo Suarez of Quezon if they win the speakership.^[3] Meanwhile, the Liberals will be fielding in former Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. of Quezon City, who was also a former Lakas Kampi member. Incumbent Speaker Prospero Nograles is barred from seeking office in the House after serving three consecutive terms; he was defeated in the Davao City mayoralty election, although his son successfully kept his father's seat.

Notable celebrities who won include Imelda Marcos (KBL, Ilocos Norte–2nd), Lani Mercado (Lakas Kampi, Cavite–2nd), Lucy Torres (Liberal, Leyte–4th) and Manny Pacquiao (PCM, Saranggani).

With the Liberals, Nacionalistas, the NPC, a faction of Lakas-Kampi, other minor parties and most of the party-list groups voting for him, Belmonte was easily elected as Speaker, with 227 votes, as compared to 29 votes of Lagman.^[4]