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1947 Philippine Senate election

10th Philippine senatorial election

Field	Value
election_name	1947 Philippine Senate election
country	Philippines
type	legislative
ongoing	no
previous_election	1946 Philippine Senate election
previous_year	1946
next_election	1949 Philippine Senate election
next_year	1949
seats_for_election	8 (of the 24) seats in the Senate of the Philippines
majority_seats	13
election_date
image1	Jose Avelino studio photo.jpg
leader1	José Avelino
party1	Liberal Party (Philippines)
seats_before1	11 (2 up)
seats_after1	15
seat_change1	4
popular_vote1	12,288,616
percentage1	54.72
swing1	7.46
image2	Carlos P Garcia.jpg
leader2	Carlos P. Garcia
party2	Nacionalista Party
seats_before2	12 (6 up)
seats_after2	8
seat_change2	4
popular_vote2	10,114,453
percentage2	45.04
swing2	4.23
title	Senate President
before_election	José Avelino
before_party	Liberal Party (Philippines)
after_election	José Avelino
after_party	Liberal Party (Philippines)
seats1	6
seats2	2

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.

Electoral system

Philippine Senate elections are held via plurality block voting with staggered elections, with the country as an at-large district. The Senate has 24 seats, of which 8 seats are up every 2 years. The eight seats up were last contested in 1941, or the eight seats not contested in 1946; each voter has eight votes and can vote up to eight names, of which the eight candidates with the most votes winning the election.

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.

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

Esteban de la Rama (Nacionalista)
Pedro Hernaez (Nacionalista)
Vicente Rama (Nacionalista)
Proceso Sebastian (Nacionalista)

Candidates

Administration slate

Jose Maria Veloso

Opposition slate

Emiliano Tria Tirona

Third party slates

Rosendo Zaldarriaga

Melchor Lagasca

Leonardo Tenebro

Ponciano Abordo

Results

The Liberal Party won seven of the eight seats up; the Nacionalista Party won the other seat.

Two incumbents, all Liberals, defended their seats: Vicente Madrigal and Emiliano Tria Tirona.

There were five neophyte senators, all Liberals: Pablo Ángeles y David, Fernando Lopez, Geronima Pecson, Lorenzo Tañada and Carlos Tan. Nacionalista Camilo Osías returns to the Senate, after last serving in 1929.

Eulogio Rodriguez of the Nacionalistas, was the sole incumbent defeated, but won an electoral protest against Tan and was seated in 1949.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	9	11	13	15	17	19	21	22	23	24	Before election	Election result	After election
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Not up	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	LP	Nacionalista Party}}	NP	Not up
Popular Front (Philippines)}}		Liberal Party (Philippines)}}		Liberal Party (Philippines)}}		Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	√	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	√	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	+	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	+	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	+	Liberal Party (Philippines)}}	+	Nacionalista Party}}	*	Nacionalista Party}}	*	Nacionalista Party}}	Nacionalista Party}}	Nacionalista Party}}	Nacionalista Party}}	Nacionalista Party}}	Nacionalista Party}}

‡ 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

Defeated incumbents

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

References

(2013). "Philippine Electoral Almanac". The Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office.
(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.
[[Julio Teehankee]]. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines". quezon.ph.

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