Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1995

Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1995

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May 8, 1995
→ 1998

204 of the 225 seats in the House of Representatives
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jose de Venecia, Jr. Ronaldo Zamora Jose Cojuangco, Jr.
Party Lakas-NUCD-UMDP NPC LDP
Alliance Lakas-Laban NPC Lakas-Laban
Leader's seat Pangasinan–4th San Juan & Mandaluyong Tarlac–1st
Last election 40 seats, 17.3% 30 seats, 18.7% 86 seats, 33.7%
Seats won 100 22 17
Seat change +60 −8 −69
Popular vote 7,811,625 2,342,378 -69
Percentage 40.7% 12.2% 10.8%
Swing 23.4% 6.5% 22.9%

Speaker before election

Jose de Venecia, Jr.
Lakas-NUCD-UMDP

Elected Speaker

Jose de Venecia, Jr.
Lakas-NUCD-UMDP

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The Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 8, 1995. Being the first midterm election since 1938, the party of the incumbent president, Fidel V. Ramos's Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, won a plurality of the seats in the House of Representatives.[1]

The elected representatives will serve in the 10th Congress from 1995 to 1998.

Results

e • d Summary of the May 8, 1995 Philippine House of Representatives election results
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats won
Total  % Total  %
Lakas-NUCD-UMDP 7,811,625 40.7 100 49.0
NPC 2,342,378 12.2 22 10.8
LDP 2,079,611 10.8 17 8.3
Lakas-Laban coalition 1,998,810 10.4 25 12.3
Independents 1,386,007 7.2 7 3.4
Hybrid coalitions 989,723 5.2 0 0.0
Government coalition 923,731 4.8 9 4.4
Liberal 358,245 1.9 5 2.5
Opposition coalition 306,064 1.6 1 0.5
Others 274,845 1.4 14 6.9
KBL 183,256 1.0 1 0.5
Nacionalista 153,088 0.8 1 0.5
PMP 171,454 0.9 1 0.5
PRP 171,454 0.9 0 0.0
PDP-Laban 130,365 0.7 1 0.5
Total 19,280,656 100.0 204 100.0
Source: Teehankee, Julio. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines". quezon.ph. http://www.quezon.ph/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/Electoral%20Politics%20in%20the%20Philippines.pdf. Retrieved 2010-12-11. 

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