2001 Philippine House of Representatives elections explained

Election Name:

2001 Philippine House of Representatives elections

Country:

Philippines

Type:

parliamentary

Ongoing:

Previous Election:

1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections

Previous Year:

1998

Next Election:

2004 Philippine House of Representatives elections

Next Year:

2004

Seats For Election:

All 261 seats in the House of Representatives (including underhangs)

Election Date:

May 14, 2001

Majority Seats:

130

Module:

Embed:

yes

Election Name:

Congressional district elections

Seats For Election:

All 209 seats from congressional districts

Noleader:

yes

Nopercentage:

yes

Party1:

Lakas–NUCD–UMDP

Last Election1:

111

Seats1:

Party2:

Nationalist People's Coalition

Last Election2:

Seats2:

Party3:

Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino

Last Election3:

Seats3:

Party4:

Liberal Party (Philippines)

Last Election4:

Seats4:

Party5:

Others

Last Election5:

Seats5:

Map:

2001PhilippineHouseElections.PNG

Map Size:

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Election Name:	Party-list election
Seats For Election:	All 52 seats under the party-list system
Noleader:	yes
Party1:	Bayan Muna
Percentage1:	26.19
Last Election1:	0
Seats1:	3
Party2:	APEC
Percentage2:	12.30
Last Election2:	2
Seats2:	3
Party3:	Akbayan
Percentage3:	5.79
Last Election3:	1
Seats3:	2
Party4:	BUTIL
Percentage4:	5.06
Last Election4:	1
Seats4:	1
Party5:	Citizens' Battle Against Corruption
Percentage5:	4.96
Last Election5:	0
Seats5:	1
Party6:	BUHAY
Percentage6:	4.46
Last Election6:	0
Seats6:	1
Party7:	Anak Mindanao
Percentage7:	3.86
Last Election7:	0
Seats7:	1
Party8:	ABA
Percentage8:	3.71
Last Election8:	1
Seats8:	1
Party9:	COCOFED
Percentage9:	3.51
Last Election9:	1
Seats9:	1
Party10:	Partido ng Manggagawa
Percentage10:	3.32
Last Election10:	0
Seats10:	1
Party11:	Sanlakas
Percentage11:	2.32
Last Election11:	1
Seats11:	1
Party12:	Abanse! Pinay
Percentage12:	2.07
Last Election12:	0
Seats12:	1
Speaker
Before Election:	Feliciano Belmonte Jr.
Before Party:	Lakas-NUCD-UMDP
After Election:	Jose de Venecia Jr.
After Party:	Lakas-NUCD-UMDP

Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 14, 2001. This was the next election succeeding the events of the 2001 EDSA Revolution that deposed Joseph Estrada from the presidency; his vice president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo became president, and her party, Lakas NUCD-UMDP, and by extension the People Power Coalition (PPC), dominated the midterm elections winning majority of the seats in the Senate and in the House of Representatives.^[1]

The elected representatives served in the 12th Congress from 2001 to 2004.

Electoral system

The House of Representatives shall have not more than 250 members, unless otherwise fixed by law, of which 20% shall be elected via the party-list system, while the rest are elected via congressional districts.

In this election, there are 209 seats voted via first-past-the-post in single-member districts. Each province, and a city with a population of 250,000, is guaranteed a seat, with more populous provinces and cities divided into two or more districts.

Congress has the power of redistricting three years after each census.

As there are 209 congressional districts, there shall be 52 seats available under the party-list system. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled the 2%–4%–6% method of allocating seats as unconstitutional. It then devised a new way of allocating the seats. It held the 2% electoral threshold for winning a guaranteed seat as constitutional. Next, the court ruled that the first-placed party should always have more seats than the other parties, and that the 2%–4%–6% method will only be used for the first-placed party. As for parties that got 2% of the vote but did not have the most votes, they will automatically have one more seat, then any extra seats will be determined via dividing their votes to the number of votes of the party with the most votes, then the quotient will be multiplied by the number of seats the party with the most votes has. The product, disregarding decimals (it is not rounded), will be the number of seats a party will get.^[2]

Results

Party-list election

References

Book: The Presidents of the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines . 971-8832-24-6 . Paras . Corazon L. . 2000 .
Book: Pobre , Cesar P. . Philippine Legislature 100 Years . 2000 . 971-92245-0-9 .
Web site: Electoral Politics in the Philippines . Julio . Teehankee . quezon.ph . 2010-12-06.

Notes and References

Web site: An abnormal return to normality . Manuel III . Quezon . Manuel Quezon III . PCIJ.org . 2007-06-06 . 2010-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101129022315/http://pcij.org/stories/an-abnormal-return-to-normality/ . 2010-11-29 . dead .
Web site: VFP v. COMELEC . Supreme Court of the Philippines.