1947 Philippine Senate election

←  1946 November 11, 1947 (1947-11-11) 1949 →
8 (of the 24) seats in the Senate of the Philippines 13 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader José Avelino Carlos P. Garcia Party Liberal Nacionalista Seats before 10 seats 14 seats Seats won 6 2 Seats after 15 seats 8 seats Seat change 4 4 Popular vote 12,241,929 10,114,453 Percentage 54.5% 45.0%
Senate President before election José Avelino Liberal Elected Senate President José Avelino Liberal

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Elections for the Senate of the Philippines were held on November 11, 1947, with eight of the 24 seats in the Senate being contested. These eight seats were elected regularly; the winners were eligible to serve six-year terms from December 30, 1947, until December 30, 1953. Gubernatorial and local elections were held on the same date.

Summary

Going into the 1947 election, the Senate consisted of nine Liberals, 14 Nacionalista, and one Popular Front (Vicente Y. Sotto). Of the seats up for election in 1947, all eight seats were held by Nacionalistas.

Senate President Jose Avelino, president of the Liberal Party, scored the opposition and said, "the Nacionalista Party of today is not the party of Quezon and Osmeña ... (it is) the party of Hukbalahaps and other dissident elements." In response, Nacionalista Party President Eulogio Rodriguez appealed for the voters to give the opposition a stronger mandate to fiscalize the administration, which they accused of being corrupt and incompetent. ^[1]

In the 1st Congress, the Liberals held 14 seats in the Senate, thereby retaining control of the Senate. The Liberals' total was reduced to 13 seats pursuant to the Senate Electoral Tribunal resolution in which Senator Carlos Tan (Liberal) was unseated and replaced by Eulogio Rodriguez (Nacionalista) in 1949.

Geronima Pecson became the first woman to be elected in the Senate.

Retiring incumbents

Nacionalista Party

1. Alauya Alonto
2. Esteban dela Rama
3. Pedro Hernaez
4. Vicente Rama
5. Proceso Sebastian

Results

Key:

• ‡ Seats up
• + Gained by a party from another party
• √ Held by the incumbent
• * Held by the same party with a new senator

Per candidate

Per party

Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats
					Up	Before	Won	After	+/−
	Liberal Party	12,288,616	54.72	+7.46	2	11	6	15	+4
	Nacionalista Party	10,114,453	45.04	+4.23	6	12	2	8	−4
	Modernist Party	29,281	0.13	−1.69	0	0	0	0	0
	Young Philippines	13,441	0.06	New	0	0	0	0	0
	Democrat (Osmeña)	9,010	0.04	New	0	0	0	0	0
	Goodwill Party	1,641	0.01	New	0	0	0	0	0
	Popular Front				0	1	0	1	0
Total		22,456,442	100.00	–	8	24	8	24	0
Total votes		3,264,423	–
Registered voters/turnout		4,233,528	77.11
Source: Dieter Nohlen; Florian Grotz; Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos (15 November 2001). Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. OUP Oxford. ISBN  9780199249596. & Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph.

Defeated incumbents

Nacionalista Party

• Eulogio Rodriguez originally lost the election, but won an election protest and was seated in 1949.

See also

• Commission on Elections
• 1st Congress of the Philippines

References

External links

• Official website of the Commission on Elections