2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections
The 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections will be the 36th lower house (or sole house) elections in the Philippines. The election is scheduled to be held on May 9, 2022.
The election will be held concurrently with the 2022 presidential, Senate and local elections. A voter has two votes in the House of Representatives: one for the congressional district, and one for party-list. Parties of leading presidential candidates are expected to stand candidates in many districts. In the outgoing 18th Congress, there are 243 congressional districts. Four new districts will be contested for the first time in 2022. Other districts may be created prior to the election.
As there are at least 247 districts, there shall be 61 seats, or at least 20% of the seats, disputed in the party-list election. The party-list election is done on a nationwide, at-large basis, separate and distinct from the election from the congressional districts.
Background
In the 18th Congress of the Philippines, the parties supporting President Rodrigo Duterte disputed the speakership, Alan Peter Cayetano of the Nacionalista Party, Lord Allan Jay Velasco of PDP–Laban, and the National Unity Party's (NUP) Paolo Duterte emerged as the front-runners to be speaker. The president pushed for a term-sharing agreement between Cayetano and Velasco, with Cayetano serving from July 2019 to October 2020, then Velasco serving until 2022. The younger Duterte disapproved of term-sharing, though. Cayetano was elected Speaker in July 2019.[1]
By March 2020, Cayetano allegedly met with representatives from the Nacionalistas and the NUP to consolidate support for his tenure as speaker. This allegedly involved declaring the position of Speaker vacant. and with Cayetano having enough votes to be reelected, override the original agreement in order to remain in position for the rest of the congressional term. Cayetano, when asked about this, said "I cannot predict what's going to happen sa (on the) floor which can happen anytime and any member can make any motion."[2]
Weeks before he is expected to turn over the speakership to Velasco, Cayetano said that Velasco's term shall start on November, as October is the 15th month, and it was brokered that he become speaker for the first 15 months. Aside from the speakership, only one committee chairmanship is expected to change hands, with all other positions unaffected by the change.[3]
In a September 29, 2020 meeting between President Duterte, Cayetano and Velasco, the president asked the representatives to abide by the gentleman's agreement.[4] Velasco rejected Duterte's suggestion to move the term-sharing deal from October to December.[5] On the October 1 session, Cayetano, who attacked Velasco for pushing through with the deal in the middle of the pandemic and while the budget is being tackled offered to resign as speaker, but it was rejected by his allies. A later vote showed that 184 representatives wanted Cayetano to stay as speaker, 1 dissented, and 9 abstained.[6]
At the next week, Congress suspended its session a week earlier than scheduled. At the session Cayetano moved to terminate the period of debates and amendments. After that was approved, another motion was approved for the 2021 budget to be approved on second reading. The session was then suspended until November 16. This meant that session was suspended before the expected transfer of power on October 14.[7] This put the status of the budget in time in doubt. Duterte called on Cayetano and Velasco to settle their differences or else he'll "do it for you". Duterte then called on a special session from October 13 to 16 to pass the budget.[8]
On October 11, pictures of Velasco and Davao City mayor Sara Duterte appeared on the internet, with the presidential daughter giving tacit approval of Velasco's speakership campaign.[9] On October 12, the day before the special session, Velasco and his allies gathered in the Celebrity Sports Plaza in Quezon City to elect new officials of the House of Representatives, including the speakership. Velasco was elected 186–0. Cayetano branded the session as illegal.[10] On the morning of the special session, Velasco allies entered the session hall of the Batasang Pambansa Complex and elected Velasco as speaker in the same 186–0 result. While voting was ongoing, Cayetano resigned as speaker on Facebook live, giving Velasco the speakership undisputedly.[11] Velasco then recalled the budget from second reading, reopening deliberations for it.[12]
After Velasco and his allies consolidated leadership positions in the chamber, Cayetano and six of his allies launched "BTS sa Kongreso", or "Back to service in Congress" in January 2021. Cayetano clarified that his bloc was not named as such, in response to fans of South Korea boy band BTS who called out Cayetano using the name of the boy band for political motives.[13]
Electoral system
The Philippines uses parallel voting for its lower house elections. For this election, there shall be 308 seats in the House; 247 of these are district representatives, and 61 are party-list representatives. Philippine 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.
Campaigning for elections from congressional districts seats are decidedly local; the candidates are most likely a part of an election slate that includes candidates for other positions in the locality, and slates may comprise different parties. The political parties contesting the election make no attempt to create a national campaign.[citation needed]
Party-list campaigning, on the other hand, is done on a national scale. Parties usually attempt to appeal to a specific demographic. Polling is usually conducted for the party-list election, while pollsters may release polls on specific district races. In district elections, pollsters do not attempt to make forecasts on how many votes a party would achieve, nor the number of seats a party would win; they do attempt to do that in party-list elections, though.[citation needed]
District changes
In the Philippines, Congress has the power to create new congressional districts. Congress can either redistrict the entire country within three years after each Philippine census, or create new districts from existing ones piecemeal, although Congress has never redistricted the entire country wholesale since the approval of the 1987 constitution. Congress usually creates a new district once a place reaches the minimum 250,000 population mandated by the constitution.
New districts can also be created by creating new provinces and cities; in this case, it also must be approved by the people in a plebiscite in the affected places.
New districts from redistricting laws from the previous Congress
These are the new districts that will be first contested in 2022, based from redistricting laws passed by the 17th Congress:
- Southern Leyte's 1st congressional district, from Southern Leyte's at-large congressional district[14]
- Southern Leyte's 2nd congressional district, from Southern Leyte's at-large congressional district[14]
- General Santos's at-large congressional district, from South Cotabato's 1st congressional district[14]
- Santa Rosa's at-large congressional district, from Laguna's 1st congressional district[15]
- Mandaue's at-large congressional district, from Cebu's 6th congressional district[16]
It will also be the first election for Davao de Oro in that name, after the successful renaming plebiscite in 2019 from "Compostela Valley".[17]
In Palawan, a law was passed dividing it into three provinces, with each province and Puerto Princesa getting a new district each; Palawan and Puerto Princesa together presently has 3 districts. As this means creating new provinces, it has to be approved in a plebiscite before it can be made effective.[18] In the ensuing plebiscite held on March 13, 2021, the voters rejected division, thereby retaining the status quo of three districts between Palawan and Puerto Princesa.[19]
Redistricting measures by the current Congress
As redistricting measures are local-relevant bills, all of these start in the House of Representatives.
Passed by the House of Representatives
The following reapportionment bills have been passed the House of Representatives, and is now pending in the Senate:
- Reapportioning Agusan del Norte's two congressional districts
- Butuan will be separated from the 1st district to be its own lone district. The rest of the province, including Las Nieves which is in the 1st district, and the entire 2nd district, will be its own lone district. This reapportionment doesn't increase the number of districts.[20]
- Reapportioning Iloilo City to two districts
- One congressional district is composed of the districts Jaro, La Paz, and Mandurriao, while the other is composed of City Proper, Molo, Arevalo, and Lapuz.[21]
Other bills have not passed through first reading in the House of Representatives.
Passed by the Senate
The following have been passed by the Senate:
- Reapportioning Bataan's 2nd congressional district to two districts
Enacted into law
The following have either been signed by President Rodrigo Duterte, or lapsed, into law:
- Reapportioning Rizal's 2nd congressional district to three districts
- Reapportioning Caloocan's 1st congressional district to two districts
- Reapportioning Bulacan excluding San Jose del Monte from four districts to six
- Dividing Maguindanao into two provinces
- Each new province will get its own congressional district, with Cotabato City being grouped with Northern Maguindanao's at-large district. This involves no changes in the number of districts as Maguindanao is already divided into two districts.[31]
- In the House of Representatives version, the current 1st congressional district shall be Northern Maguindanao, with Talitay from the 2nd district being included, while the current 2nd congressional district shall be Southern Maguindanao, except Talitay.
- In the Senate version, the names of the new provinces were changed from English to Spanish, into "Maguindanao del Norte" and "Maguindanao del Sur".[32]
- Enacted into law as Republic Act No. 11550[33]
- As this merits creation of new provinces, this needs to be passed by a plebiscite to be effective.
Category | Total |
---|---|
Current congressional districts | 243 |
New districts from redistricting laws from previous Congress | 4 |
New districts from redistricting laws from current Congress | 5 |
Running total of congressional districts for the next Congress | 252 |
Running total of party-list seats for the next Congress | 62 |
Running total of seats for the next Congress | 311 |
As there shall be 249 districts in the election to date, and that party-list seats shall be 20% of the seats in the chamber, there shall be 62 seats to be disputed under the party-list system. This means that the incoming 19th Congress shall have 311 seats.
Participating parties
The House of Representatives, members are organized into "blocs", akin to parliamentary groups elsewhere. Those who voted for the winning speaker are from the majority bloc, while those who did not (if there are more than two candidates for the speakership) will vote amongst themselves on who will be the minority bloc. The loser from the that shall be the independent minority bloc. Members can also be from the independent bloc. Each bloc can have members from multiple parties.
In the present 18th Congress, the majority bloc is seen to be in favor of President Rodrigo Duterte's presidency, while the minority and independent minority blocs are those opposed.
Elections in congressional districts
Political parties in the Philippines have been described as "temporary political alliances", or argued that there are no parties at all, just "fan clubs of politicians". Party-switching is not uncommon. The dependence of parties on personalities instead of issues is seen as a factor on why this is so.[34][35]
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #98fb98;" data-sort-value="Nacionalista Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #4AA02C;" data-sort-value="Nationalist People's Coalition" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas–CMD" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0D5F31;" data-sort-value="Partido Federal ng Pilipinas" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0000CD;" data-sort-value="Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #9683EC;" data-sort-value="Aksyon Demokratiko" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0067B4;" data-sort-value="Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ffa500;" data-sort-value="Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F08080;" data-sort-value="People's Reform Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #cc0000;" data-sort-value="Partido para sa Demokratikong Reporma" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" |Party | 2019 results | Current seats | Bloc membership | Ideology | Political spectrum | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | % | Majority | Minority | Other | |||||
PDP–Laban | 82 | 62 | 21.38% | Most | Some | Some | Democratic socialism, populism, federalism | Center-left to left-wing | |
NUP | 25 | 45 | 14.80% | Most | Some | No | Social conservatism, Christian democracy | Center to center-right | |
Nacionalista | 42 | 42 | 13.82% | Most | Some | No | Conservatism | Right-wing | |
NPC | 37 | 33 | 11.18% | Most | Some | No | Conservatism | Right-wing | |
Lakas | 12 | 19 | 5.59% | All | No | No | Conservatism, Christian democracy | Right-wing | |
Liberal | 18 | 16 | 5.59% | Most | Some | No | Social liberalism | Center to center-left | |
PFP | 5 | 5 | 1.64% | All | No | No | Federalism | Center | |
LDP | 2 | 2 | 0.66% | Some | No | Some | Conservatism | Center | |
Aksyon | 1 | 1 | 0.33% | All | No | No | Progressivism, liberal democracy | Center-left | |
CDP | 1 | 1 | 0.33% | All | No | No | Christian democracy | Center-right | |
PMP | 1 | 1 | 0.33% | All | No | No | Populism | Big tent | |
PRP | 1 | 1 | 0.33% | All | No | No | Reformism | Center-left | |
Reporma | 0 | 1 | 0.33 | No | No | All | Reformism | Right-wing | |
Independent | 2 | 1 | 0.33% | All | No | No | Varies | Varies | |
Local parties | 14 | 9 | 2.96% | Most | No | Some | Regionalists and localists | Varies | |
Vacancy | 0 | 4 | 1.32% | ||||||
Total | 243 | 79.93% |
Party-list election
In party-list elections, parties, usually called as "party-lists" can represent ideological, sectoral or ethnolinguistic interests. These elections have allowed left-wing parties to enter the legislature, such as parties allied with the Makabayan and Akbayan, and right-wing parties such as Magdalo. Other parties represent sectoral interests such as Senior Citizens, who represent the elderly, or regionalists such as Ako Bikol who represent Bicolanos. While envisioned as a tool to allow the marginalized to enter the legislature, it has allowed politicians who had previously ran and won in non-party-list elections and landed interests to win under the party-list banner as well. Party-list representatives have also ran and won in elections outside the party-list system as well.
The Party-list Coalition has represented party-list interests in Congress starting in 2014. In the 18th Congress, all party-lists, save for those from Makabayan and Magdalo, are members of this group. The party-list representatives, save from the Makabayan bloc usually support the policies of the sitting president.
Bloc | 2019 results | Current seats | Bloc membership | Ideology | Political spectrum | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | % | Majority | Minority | Other | ||||
Party-list Coalition | 54 | 54 | 17.76% | Most | Some | Some | Varies | Big tent |
Makabayan | 6 | 6 | 1.97% | No | All | No | Progressivism | Left-wing |
Magdalo | 1 | 1 | 0.33% | All | No | No | Conservatism | Right-wing |
Total | 61 | 20.06% | 243 | 79.93% |
Retiring and term-limited incumbents
The following are "third-termers", who are term limited. Others may retire or opt to run for other positions in 2022.
Bukidnon Paglaum incumbents
- Maria Lourdes Acosta-Alba (Bukidnon–1st)
Lakas–Christian Muslim Democrats incumbents
- Fredenil Castro (Capiz–2nd)
- Mikey Arroyo (Pampanga-2nd)
Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino incumbents
- Rodrigo Abellanosa (Cebu City–2nd)
- Abellanosa is said to be eyeing to run for mayor of Cebu City, or not run in 2022.[36]
Liberal Party incumbents
- Kit Belmonte (Quezon City–6th)
- Francis Gerald Abaya (Cavite–1st)
- Edgar Erice (Caloocan–2nd)
Nacionalista Party incumbents
- Raneo Abu (Batangas–2nd)
- Sol Aragones (Laguna–3rd)
- Abdulmunir Mundoc Arbison (Sulu–2nd)
- Mercedes Cagas (Davao del Sur)
- Eileen Ermita-Buhain (Batangas–1st)
- Jun Chipeco Jr. (Calamba)
- Lawrence Fortun (Agusan del Norte–1st)
- Jeffrey Khonghun (Zambales–1st)
- Rogelio Neil Roque (Bukidnon–4th)
- Jose I. Tejada (Cotabato–3rd)
Nationalist People's Coalition incumbents
- Erico Aristotle Aumentado (Bohol–2nd)
- It's speculated that Aumentado will run for governor of Bohol, while his wife will run to replace him as congressman from the third district.[37]
- Abdullah Dimaporo (Lanao del Norte–2nd)
- Evelina Escudero (Sorsogon–1st)
- Angelina Tan (Quezon–4th)
- Noel Villanueva (Tarlac–3rd)
National Unity Party incumbents
- Alex Advincula (Cavite–3rd)
- Franz Alvarez (Palawan–1st)
- Wilfredo Caminero (Cebu–2nd)
- Leo Rafael Cueva (Negros Occidental–2nd)
- Luis Ferrer IV (Cavite–6th)
- Gavini Pancho (Bulacan–2nd)
- Abraham Tolentino (Cavite–8th)
- Juliette Uy (Misamis Occidental–2nd)
- Rolando Uy (Cagayan de Oro–1st)
Party-list incumbents
- Lito Atienza (Buhay)
- Mike Defensor (Anakalusugan)
- Conrado Estrella III (Abono)
- Rico Geron (AGAP)
- Joseph Stephen Paduano (Abang Lingkod)
- Carlos Isagani Zarate (Bayan Muna)
- Eric Go Yap (ACT-CIS)
Partido Federal ng Pilipinas incumbents
- Cheryl Deloso-Montalla (Zambales–2nd)
Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan incumbents
- Benjamin Agarao, Jr. (Laguna–4th)
- Isagani Amatong (Zamboanga del Norte–3rd)
- Rosemarie Arenas (Pangasinan–3rd)
- Ferdinand Hernandez (South Cotabato–2nd)
- Hernandez is rumored to run for Governor of South Cotabato.[38]
- Dulce Ann Hofer (Zamboanga Sibugay–2nd)
- Elisa Olga Kho (Masbate–2nd)
- Paulino Salvador Leachon (Oriental Mindoro–1st)
- Eric Olivarez (Parañaque–1st)
- Xavier Jesus Romualdo (Camiguin)
- Estrellita Suansing (Nueva Ecija–1st)
- Lucy Torres Gomez (Leyte–4th)
- Alfred Vargas (Quezon City–5th)
- Ronaldo Zamora (San Juan)
- San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora said that his father will "be retiring definitely".[39]
- Aurelio Gonzales Jr. (Pampanga–3rd)
Marginal seats
These are the marginal seats that had a winning margin of 5% or less in the 2019 elections, in ascending order via margin:
District | Incumbent | Party | 2019 margin |
---|---|---|---|
Manila–5th | Cristal Bagatsing | PDP–Laban | 0.83% |
Dinagat Islands | Alan Ecleo | PDP–Laban | 0.92% |
Pangasinan–5th | Ramon Guico III | Lakas | 1.42% |
Masbate–1st | Narciso Bravo, Jr. | NUP | 1.45% |
Misamis Occidental–1st | Diego Ty | NUP | 1.92% |
Ifugao | Solomon Chungalao | NPC | 1.95% |
Ilocos Sur–2nd | Kristine Singson-Meehan | Bileg | 2.10% |
Camarines Sur–2nd | Luis Raymund Villafuerte | Nacionalista | 2.18% |
Iligan | Frederick Siao | Nacionalista | 2.27% |
Batanes | Ciriaco Gato, Jr. | NPC | 2.50% |
Lanao del Sur–2nd | Yasser Balindong | Lakas | 2.73% |
Manila–2nd | Rolando Valeriano | NUP | 2.77% |
Eastern Samar | Maria Fe Abunda | PDP–Laban | 3.11% |
Zamboanga del Sur–2nd | Leonardo Babasa, Jr. | PDP–Laban | 3.45% |
Pangasinan–1st | Arnold Celeste | Nacionalista | 3.79% |
Bohol–3rd | Kristine Alexie Besas-Tutor | Nacionalista | 4.00% |
Makati–1st | Romulo Peña, Jr. | Liberal | 4.20% |
Nueva Ecija–4th | Maricel Natividad-Nagaño | PRP | 4.59% |
Davao de Oro–2nd* | Ruwel Peter Gonzaga | PDP–Laban | 5.00% |
*Contested as Compostela Valley–2nd in 2019.
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