Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1987

Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1987

May 11, 1987

200 of the 214 seats in the House of Representatives 108 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Jose Cojuangco, Jr. Ramon Mitra, Jr. Jose Yap Party PDP-Laban Lakas ng Bansa UNIDO Alliance LABAN LABAN LABAN Leader's seat Tarlac–1st Palawan–2nd Tarlac–2nd Last election 6 seats (new party) 35 seats Seats won 43 24 19 Seat change 37 24 16 Popular vote 3,477,958 3,510,638 2,570,876 Percentage 17.3% 17.5% 12.8%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Raul Daza Rodolfo Albano   Party Liberal KBL Nacionalista Alliance LABAN GAD GAD Leader's seat Northern Samar–1st Isabela–1st Last election 0 seats 114 seats 0 seats Seats won 16 11 4 Seat change 16 103 4 Popular vote 2,101,575 823,676 1,444,399 Percentage 10.5% 4.1% 7.2%

Speaker before election Nicanor Yñiguez (of the Regular Batasang Pambansa) KBL Elected Speaker Ramon Mitra Lakas ng Bansa

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Elections for members of the House of Representatives in the Philippines were held on May 11, 1987. This was the first legislative election since 1984, the first House of Representatives elections since 1969, and the first election since the People Power Revolution that overthrew president Ferdinand Marcos and brought Corazon Aquino to power after alleged election fraud by the former during the 1986 presidential election against the latter.

Although no party surpassed 20% of the popular vote, candidates that ran under two or more parties won a quarter of the seats, followed by PDP-Laban and Lakas ng Bansa of subsequent speaker Ramon Mitra, Jr. that would later be the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino after some of the members of PDP-Laban defected. The Ferdinand Marcos loyalists either ran under the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, as independents, or found their way into the pro-Corazon Aquino parties. The pro-Aquino parties won majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.

Under the provisions of the constitution the 8th Congress will last for an unprecedented five years until June 30, 1992.

Results

See also

• Commission on Elections
• Politics of the Philippines
• Philippine elections

References

• The Presidents of the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines. ISBN 971-8832-24-6. 
• Pobre, Cesar P. Philippine Legislature 100 Years. ISBN 971-92245-0-9. 
• Teehankee, Julio. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph. Retrieved 2010-12-06. 

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