Trade Union Congress Party
Trade Union Congress Party | |
|---|---|
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| Ideology | Trade unionism Laborism |
| National affiliation | TUCP |
| Colors | Blue |
| Seats in the House of Representatives | 1 / 63 (Party-list seats only)
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| Website | |
| tucp.org.ph | |
Trade Union Congress Party is a party-list in the Philippines, set up by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines as its electoral wing.[1] The party contested the 2004 legislative elections, mustering 201,396 votes nationwide (1.58%). The list failed to win any seat.[2] The Supreme Court declared TUCP, as well as a few other party-list organizations, as winners in the 2007 legislative elections by virtue of the Philippine Constitution.
Electoral performance
| Electoral History | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election | Congress | Votes | % | Seats Won | Representatives |
| 2001 | 12th | 103,273 | 0.68 | 0 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2004 | 13th | 201,396 | 1.58 | 0 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2007 | 14th | 162,647 | 1.02 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2010 | 15th | 245,031 | 0.82 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2013 | 16th | 368,883 | 1.35 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2016 | 17th | 467,275 | 1.44 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2019 | 18th | 256,059[3] | 0.92 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2022 | 19th | 260,779 | 0.71 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
Note: Competed in 2001 as Trade Union Congress of the Philippines.
Party-list nominees
For the 2019 elections, only the first nominee of the party won a seat, Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza.[4] He is one of the 70 representatives who prevented the renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise at the committee level thus making sure the bill did not reach the plenary.[5]
References
- ^ Trade Union Congress of the Philippines Archived 2006-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "COMELEC Election Results". Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
- ^ "2019 National Elections Partylist Canvass Report" (PDF). Commission on Elections. May 13, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ^ Bueza, Michael. "18th Congress, by the numbers". Rappler. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
- ^ Perez-Rubio, Bella. "List of lawmakers who voted for and against ABS-CBN franchise renewal". Philstar.com. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
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