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1969 Philippine Senate election

21st Philippine senatorial election

21st Philippine senatorial election

FieldValue
election_name1969 Philippine Senate election
countryPhilippines
typelegislative
ongoingno
previous_election1967 Philippine Senate election
previous_year1967
next_election1971 Philippine Senate election
next_year1971
election_dateNovember 11, 1969
seats_for_election8 (of the 24) seats in the Senate
majority_seats13
image1Gil Puyat photo.jpg
leader1Gil Puyat
party1Nacionalista Party
seats_before115 (4 up)
seats16
seats_after117
seat_change12
popular_vote131,526,492
percentage158.58
swing12.62
image2Gerry Roxas.jpg
leader2Gerardo Roxas
party2Liberal Party (Philippines)
seats_before28 (4 up)
seats22
seats_after26
seat_change22
popular_vote222,256,444
percentage241.35
swing24.32
titleSenate President
before_electionGil Puyat
before_partyNacionalista Party
after_electionGil Puyat
after_partyNacionalista Party

A senatorial election was held on November 11, 1969 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos won an unprecedented second full term as President of the Philippines, while his running mate, incumbent Vice President Fernando Lopez was also elected to a third full term as Vice President of the Philippines; their Nacionalista Party-mates also won six of the eight contested seats in the Philippine Senate increasing their majority in the Senate.

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 1963; each voter has eight votes and can vote up to eight names, of which the eight candidates with the most votes win the election.

Retiring incumbents

There were no retiring incumbents in this election.

Incumbents running elsewhere

These ran in the middle of their Senate terms. For those losing in their respective elections, they can still return to the Senate to serve out their term, while the winners will vacate their Senate seats, then it would have been contested in a special election concurrently with the next general election.

  1. Genaro Magsasysay (Liberal, elected as a Nacionalista), ran for vice president and lost
  2. Sergio Osmeña Jr. (Liberal), ran for president and lost

Results

The Nacionalista Party won six seats, while the Liberal Party won two.

Five incumbents successfully defended their seats. Liberals Ambrosio Padilla and Gerardo Roxas, and Nacionalistas José W. Diokno, Gil Puyat, and Arturo Tolentino.

Mamintal A.J. Tamano and Rene Espina of the Nacionalistas are the neophyte senators elected in this election.

Nacionalista Lorenzo Sumulong returns to the Senate after last serving in 1967.

Three senators lost their reelection bids: Juan Liwag and Tecla San Andres Ziga of the Liberals, and Nacionalistas' Rodolfo Ganzon.

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  • ‡ 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

  1. Rodolfo Ganzon (Nacionalista), ran for mayor of Iloilo CIty in 1971 and won
  2. Juan Liwag (Liberal), ran for delegate at the Constitutional Convention in 1970 and won
  3. Tecla San Andres Ziga (Liberal), retired from politics

References

References

  1. (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.
  2. [[Julio Teehankee]]. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines". quezon.ph.
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