Philippine presidential election, 1986

Philippine presidential election, 1986

1981 ← February 7, 1986 → 1992

Nominee Corazon C. Aquino Ferdinand E. Marcos Party PDP-Laban KBL Running mate Salvador H. Laurel Arturo M. Tolentino Popular vote 9,291,761 (COMELEC) 9,853,456 (NAMFREL) 10,807,197 (COMELEC) 10,635,458 (NAMFREL) Percentage 46.10% (Election returns nullified) 53.62% (Election returns nullified)

President before election Ferdinand E. Marcos KBL Elected President Corazon C. Aquino PDP-Laban

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The Presidential and Vice-Presidential snap elections were held on February 7, 1986 in the Philippines.

Background

President Ferdinand E. Marcos announced a snap election during an interview on the American Broadcasting Company political affairs program This Week with David Brinkley on November 1985.

Marcos and former Foreign Affairs Minister and Senate President Arturo Tolentino were proclaimed winners by the Batasang Pambansa as well as the official election canvasser, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) thus granting President Marcos another six-year term as President of the Philippines. The electoral exercise was marred by alleged electoral fraud as well as violence. Marcos and Tolentino won by over a million votes according to the COMELEC. The opposition headed by Sen. Benigno Aquino, Jr.'s widow Corazon C. Aquino and former senator Salvador Laurel refused to accept the allegedly fraudulent result. Due to the reports of fraud, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a statement condemning the elections, the United States Senate passed a resolution stating the same. This chain of events eventually led to the resignation of Marcos' Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and military vice-chief Fidel Ramos, who then decided to seclude themselves in the military and police headquarters at Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame respectively, leading to the People Power Revolution which precipitated Marcos's departure from the country into exile in Hawaii. On March 24, 1986, the Regular Batasang Pambansa made a people's resolution signed by 150 lawmakers which nullified the election returns that proclaimed that Marcos and Tolentino as the winners. Instead, it mandated that Aquino and Laurel were the real winners of the snap elections.

Results

President

Final Official Parliamentary Canvass (Nullified on March 24, 1986)

 Summary of the February 7, 1986 Philippine presidential election results

Candidate	Party		Results
			Votes	%
Ferdinand Marcos		KBL	10,807,197	53.62%
Corazon Aquino		PDP-Laban	9,291,761	46.10%
Reuben Canoy		Social Democratic Party	34,041	0.17%
Narciso Padilla		Movement for Truth, Order and Righteousness	23,652	0.12%
Valid votes			20,156,606	97.3%
Invalid votes			559,469	2.7%
Votes cast			20,716,075	78.8%
Registered voters			26,278,744	100.00%

NAMFREL Tally

Candidate	Party	Votes
Ferdinand E. Marcos	KBL	10,635,458
Corazon C. Aquino	UNIDO - PDP-LABAN	9,853,456

Vice-President

Final Official Parliamentary Canvass (Nullified on March 24, 1986)

 Summary of the February 7, 1986 Philippine vice presidential election results

Candidate	Party		Results
			Votes	%
Arturo Tolentino		KBL	10,134,130	50.65%
Salvador Laurel		UNIDO	9,173,105	45.85%
Eva Estrada-Kalaw		Liberal (Kalaw Wing)	662,185	3.31%
Roger Arienda		Movement for Truth, Order and Righteousness	35,974	0.18%
Totals			20,053,394	100.00%

NAMFREL Tally

Candidate	Party	Votes
Arturo M. Tolentino	KBL	11,095,897
Salvador H. Laurel	UNIDO -Nacionalista	9,527,699

Nullification of COMELEC final tally

The COMELEC final tally showed that Marcos won by twice Aquino's margin in the NAMFREL tally (roughly 1.6 million), and also had Tolentino winning over Laurel. This alleged fraudulent outcome would eventually lead to the People Power Revolution which ousted President Ferdinand Marcos and installed Corazon Aquino as president. It only changed when the Regular Batasang Pambansa declared on March 24, 1986 that Aquino and Laurel won the elections and admitted that Marcos's lawmakers tampered the official COMELEC Canvass at the PICC and the Batasang Pambansa to make sure Marcos and Tolentino won the elections.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Commission on Elections
• Politics of the Philippines
• Philippine elections
• President of the Philippines

External links

• The Philippine Presidency Project
• Official website of the Commission on Elections