Philippine parliamentary election, 1938
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
‹ 1935  1941 › |
||||
| Philippine parliamentary election, 1938 All 98 seats of the Second National Assembly |
||||
| November 8, 1938 | ||||
| Majority Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||
| Leader | Jose Y. Yulo | |||
| Party | Nacionalista
|
|||
| Leader since | 1938 | |||
| Leader's seat | 3rd District, Negros Occidental
|
|||
| Last election | 83 seats, 82.65% | |||
| Seats won | 98 | |||
| Seat change | +15 | |||
| Percentage | 100.00% | |||
| Philippines | ||||||||
 This article is part of the series: |
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
| Government | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political history · Constitution
|
||||||||
| Executive | ||||||||
| President (list) Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo 2001 – 2010 Vice President (list) |
||||||||
|
||||||||
| Judiciary | ||||||||
| Supreme Court
Chief Justice Reynato Puno |
||||||||
| Elections | ||||||||
| Commission on Elections Chairman:Jose Melo 2013 | 2010 | 2007 | 2004 | 2001 | 1998 1995 | 1992 | 1987 | 1986 | All |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
Other countries · Atlas Politics Portal |
||||||||
The Elections for the Second National Assembly were held on November 8, 1938, under a new law that allowed block voting[1] which favored the governing Nacionalista Party. As expected all the 98 seats of the National Assembly went to the Nacionalistas. Jose Yulo who was Quezon's Secretary of Justice from 1934 to 1938, was elected Speaker.
The Second National Assembly embarked on passing legislations strengthening the economy, unfortunately the cloud of the Second World War loomed over the horizon. Certain laws passed by the First National Assembly were modified or repealed to meet existing realities.[2] A controversial immigration law that set an annual limit of 50 immigrants per country which[3] affected mostly Chinese and Japanese nationals escaping the Sino-Japanese War was passed in 1940. Since the law bordered on foreign relations it required the approval of the U.S. President which was nevertheless obtained. When the result of the 1939 census was published, the National Assembly updated the apportionment of legislative districts, which became the basis for the 1941 elections.
[edit] Results
| Parties and coalitions | % | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nacionalista Party (Coalicion Nacionalista) | 100.0 | 98 | ||
| Total | 100.00 | 98 | ||
| Source: Philippine Legislatures:100 Years by Cesar Pobre. | ||||
[edit] External links
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
