2025 Philippine general election
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2025 Philippine Senate election | |||
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The 2025 Philippine general election is a midterm election to be held on May 9, 2025, the seats of the 12 senators elected in 2019 will be contested in this election. The senators that will be elected in this election will join the winners of the 2022 election to form the 20th Congress of the Philippines.
There will be 304 seats contested in the House of Representatives election, with 243 of them on the district elections and 61 on the party-list elections. There might also be new districts electing their first official. [citation needed]
Background[edit]
Electoral system[edit]
The Philippines has a 24-member Senate elected at-large. Every three years since 1995, 12 seats are elected. Each voter has 12 votes, the voters can vote from one up to twelve candidates.
Senators are limited to serving two consecutive terms, although they can have a third non-consecutive term.[1] Only half of the seats are up in every senatorial election.[2] The winning senators will succeed the elected in 2019, and will join those elected in 2022 to form the 20th Congress.
Each party or coalition has or endorses a slate of candidates, mostly not exceeding a 12-person ticket.[3] A party may also choose to invite "guest candidates" to complete its slate.[4] The party may even include, with the candidates' consent, independent candidates and candidates from other parties as the party's guest candidates. Parties also may form coalitions to endorse a multi-party slate of candidates.
Winning candidates are proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC). The NBOC usually proclaims senators-elect by batches, if that candidate can no longer fall to worse than twelfth place in the tally. Post-proclamation disputes are handled by the Senate Electoral Tribunal, a body composed of six senators and three justices from the Supreme Court.
References[edit]
- ^ "Term of Office and Privileges". Senate of the Philippines. Archived from the original on 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ "Why only 12 are elected every 3 years for the 24-member Senate?". www.pna.gov.ph. Archived from the original on 2022-04-15. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
- ^ "Election for Senado (Philippine Senate)". Election Guide. Archived from the original on May 16, 2019.
- ^ Quezon, Manuel L. III (May 11, 2013). "The Great Divide: The midterm election of 2013 (Part 1)". Manuel L. Quezon III. Archived from the original on January 14, 2016. Retrieved May 30, 2020.