2016 Bacoor local elections

Local elections were held in Bacoor City, Cavite on May 9, 2016 within the Philippine general election. The voters will elect for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, the vice mayor, the lone district representative, the two provincial board members for Cavite, and the twelve councilors, six in each of the city's two local legislative districts^{[nb 1]}.

Background

Incumbent Edwin "Strike" Revilla is already in his third term as mayor of Bacoor; therefore he is disqualified from running for another term for the same position despite Bacoor's change in status as a city in 2012. He will be running for representative to switch positions with his sister-in-law, Lani Mercado-Revilla.^[2] Her opponents are former municipal vice mayor and provincial board member Edwin Malvar and incumbent provincial board member Rolando "Andoy" Remulla.^[3]

On the other hand, incumbent vice mayor Catherine Sariño-Evaristo will be Representative Mercado-Revilla's running mate. Her announced opponents are former city Business Permits and Licensing Office head Allen Reyes and former municipal councilor and three-term provincial board member Cesario "Jun" Del Rosario Jr., who recently is an executive producer, editor and deputy chief of reporters at CNN Philippines.

Results

The candidates for mayor, vice mayor, and district representative with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.

Incumbent officials are expressed in italics.

Mayor

Bacoor Mayoralty Election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lakas	Lani Mercado-Revilla	106,964	60.93%
	NUP	Rolando Remulla	47,399	27.00%
	Liberal	Edwin Malvar	21,184	12.07%
Total votes			175,547	100.00%
	Lakas hold

Vice Mayor

Bacoor Vice Mayoralty Election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lakas	Catherine Sariño-Evaristo	100,769	62.78%
	NUP	Allen Enriquez Reyes	34,287	21.36%
	Liberal	Cesario Del Rosario, Jr.	25,449	15.86%
Total votes			160,505	100.00%
	Lakas hold

District Representative

Incumbent mayor Strike Revilla is switching positions with his sister-in-law. He is said to be running unopposed as his perceived opponent, former municipal mayor Jessie Castillo, decided not to run for any position in this year's elections.

2016 Philippine House of Representatives election in 2nd District of Cavite (Lone District of Bacoor City)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lakas	Edwin "Strike" Revilla	141,468	89.71%
	Liberal	Mark Orlie Buena	16,228	10.29%
Total votes			157,696	100.00%
	Lakas hold

Provincial Board members

Voters will elect two board members at-large, regardless of whether these voters are from Bacoor West or Bacoor East. Incumbent board member Edralin "Aba" Gawaran, who was nationally known as one of the right-hand men of detained Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. when he was arrested and taken to jail for corruption charges in 2014 in connection with the PDAF scam, will vie for re-election. His partner for the other slot within Team Revilla is graduating city councilor Reynaldo Fabian. They will be opposed by former three-term municipal councilor Peter Simon Lara, transport operator and businessperson Neil Ragasa, and Rosalina Francisco.

Remulla, the other incumbent board member, is running for mayor.

2016 Provincial Board Election in 2nd District of Cavite (Lone District of Bacoor City)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lakas	Edralin Gawaran	104,739	39.82%
	Lakas	Reynaldo Fabian	92,350	35.11%

	Nacionalista	Honesto Mercado Jr.	21,895	8.32%
	Liberal	Rosalina Francisco	20,787	7.90%
	NUP	Cornelio Ragasa	16,028	6.09%
	Liberal	Lucio Alejo IV	7,167	2.72%
Total votes			262,966	100.00%

Councilors

Team Revilla

Lakas-CMD/Team Revilla Bacoor West District
Name	Party
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Miguel Bautista style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Rowena Bautista-Mendiola style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Venus De Castro style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Edwin Gawaran style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Alejandro Gutierrez style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Michael Solis style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas

Lakas-CMD/Team Revilla Bacoor East District
Name	Party
colspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Lakas-CMD (2009)/meta/color\|
Apolonio Advincula style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Leandro De Leon style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Hernando "King" Gutierrez style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Roberto Javier style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Gaudencio Nolasco style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas
Reynaldo Palabrica style="width: 2px; background-color: #B0E0E6;" data-sort-value="Lakas-CMD (2009)" \|	Lakas

Team Malvar

Liberal Party/Team Malvar Bacoor West District
Name	Party
colspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color\|
Angelito Antonio style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Danilo Frani style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Norlinda Madale style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Eliseo Mira style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
James Donald Manalili style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Jaime Ocampo style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal

Liberal Party/Team Malvar Bacoor East District
Name	Party
colspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color\|
Jose Almario, Jr. style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Yolando Asuncion style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Analiza Gayamo style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Fernando Lachica style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Leopoldo Platilla style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal
Tranquilino Silva style="width: 2px; background-color: #f0e68c;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Philippines)" \|	Liberal

Team Andoy

National Unity Party/Team Andoy Bacoor West District
Name	Party
colspan=4 bgcolor=Template:National Unity Party (Philippines)/meta/color\|
Alex Garcia style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Garry Gawaran style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Norman Lacson style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Lourdes Ocampo style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Luis Pamaran style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Zairel Ramos style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP

National Unity Party/Team Andoy Bacoor East District
Name	Party
colspan=4 bgcolor=Template:National Unity Party (Philippines)/meta/color\|
Nomer De Quiroz style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Leonilo Javier, Jr. style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Danilo Legaspi style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Teodoro Montes style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Narciso Nato style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP
Jay Sapanghila style="width: 2px; background-color: #104a21;" data-sort-value="National Unity Party (Philippines)" \|	NUP

Results

Each legislative district elects six councilors to the City Council. The six candidates with the highest number of votes wins these seats.

Bacoor West District

Bacoor City Council election - Bacoor West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lakas	Rowena Bautista-Mendiola	59,917	12.15%
	Lakas	Miguel Bautista	59,157	11.99%
	Lakas	Edwin Gawaran	58,866	11.93%
	Lakas	Michael Solis	57,730	11.70%
	Lakas	Venus De Castro	55,014	11.15%
	Lakas	Alejandro Gutierrez	45,228	9.17%

	Liberal	James Manalili	21,741	6.41%
	NUP	Norman Lacson	20,995	4.26%
	NUP	Zairel Ramos	18,456	3.74%
	NUP	Garry Gawaran	14,618	2.96%
	NUP	Lourdes Ocampo	13,977	2.83%
	NUP	Alex Garcia	12,079	2.45%
	Liberal	Jaime Ocampo	11,375	2.31%
	NUP	Luis Pamaran	9,539	1.93%
	Liberal	Danilo Frani	7,968	1.62%
	Liberal	Angelito Antonio	7,116	1.44%
	Liberal	Eliseo Mira	5,997	1.22%
	Liberal	Norlinda Madale	5,559	1.13%
	PDP–Laban	Danny Paez	4,029	0.82%
	PDP–Laban	Maximo Cabrera	3,939	0.80%
Total votes			493,300	100.00%

Bacoor East District

Bacoor City Council election - Bacoor East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lakas	Apolonio Advincula Jr.	46,063	12.41%
	Lakas	Reynaldo Palabrica	42,246	11.38%
	Lakas	Hernando Gutierrez	40,646	10.95%
	Lakas	Gaudencio Nolasco	36,153	9.74%
	Lakas	Leandro De Leon	32,326	8.71%
	Lakas	Roberto Javier	32,059	8.63%

	Nacionalista	Roberto Saquitan	19,369	5.22%
	NUP	Leonilo Javier Jr.	15,727	4.24%
	NUP	Jay Sapanghila	15,259	4.11%
	NUP	Danilo Legaspi	12,865	3.46%
	NUP	Narciso Nato	12,545	3.38%
	NUP	Teodoro Montes	10,859	2.92%
	NUP	Nomer De Quiroz	10,035	2.70%
	Liberal	Analiza Gayamo	7,959	2.14%
	Liberal	Tranquilino Silva	5,987	1.61%
	Liberal	Leopoldo Platilla	5,780	1.56%
	Liberal	Fernando Lachica	5,648	1.52%
	PRP	Denis Lopez	5,312	1.43%
	Liberal	Yolando Asuncion	5,299	1.43%
	PDP–Laban	George Salazar	4,650	1.25%
	Liberal	Jose Almario Jr.	4,522	1.22%
Total votes			371,309	100.00%

Notes

^ As per Article 4 Section 10 of Republic Act 10160 or the City Charter of Bacoor, Bacoor's Sangguniang Panglungsod districts should be officially referred to as Bacoor West and Bacoor East. They are currently referred to on orders of the city government as Districts 1 and 2, respectively.^[1]

References

^ http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2012/ra_10160_2012.html
^ Limpin, R.; Delizo, M.J. (2015-10-15). "Revilla, Mercado swap posts". The Manila Times. Retrieved 2015-10-28. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
^ Pang-Masa (2015-10-16). "Andoy Remulla tatakbong mayor ng Bacoor City (Tagalog)". Pang-Masa (PM). Retrieved 2015-10-28.

[2] As per Article 4 Section 10 of Republic Act 10160 or the City Charter of Bacoor, Bacoor's Sangguniang Panglungsod districts should be officially referred to as Bacoor West and Bacoor East. They are currently referred to on orders of the city government as Districts 1 and 2, respectively.^[1]

[1] ttp://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2012/ra_10160_2012.html

[3] Limpin, R.; Delizo, M.J. (2015-10-15). "Revilla, Mercado swap posts". The Manila Times. Retrieved 2015-10-28. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

[4] Pang-Masa (2015-10-16). "Andoy Remulla tatakbong mayor ng Bacoor City (Tagalog)". Pang-Masa (PM). Retrieved 2015-10-28.

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