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1987 Philippine Senate election

23rd Philippine senatorial election

Field	Value
election_name	1987 Philippine Senate election
country	Philippines
flag_year	1986
type	legislative
ongoing	no
previous_election	1984 Philippine parliamentary election
previous_year	1984 (parliament)
next_election	1992 Philippine Senate election
next_year	1992
election_date	May 11, 1987
seats_for_election	All 24 seats in the Senate
majority_seats	13
party1	Lakas ng Bayan
popular_vote1	243,237,045
seats1	22
percentage1	64.89
party2	Grand Alliance for Democracy
popular_vote2	98,060,057
seats2	2
percentage2	26.16
map_image	File:1987 Philippine Senate election topnotcher results by region.svg
map_size	300px
map_caption	Results showing the alliance affiliation of first-placed candidates by region
title	Senate President
before_election	Abolished
Last held by: Gil Puyat
before_party	Nacionalista Party
after_election	Jovito Salonga
after_party	Lakas ng Bayan

Last held by: Gil Puyat The 23rd election to the Senate of the Philippines was held on Monday, May 11, 1987. The Senate was re-instituted following the approval of a new constitution in 1987 restoring the bicameral Congress of the Philippines; earlier, a constitution was approved in 1973 that created a unicameral Batasang Pambansa (parliament) that replaced the bicameral Congress. The last Senate election prior to this was the 1971 election.

The Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN) got 64.9% of the vote but won 22 out of 24 seats in the Senate; only two candidates from the opposition Grand Alliance for Democracy won: former Secretary of National Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and San Juan Mayor Joseph Estrada, despite getting 26.6% of the vote.

Along with the 1916, 1941 and the 1992 elections, this is the third senatorial election where all seats were up.

Electoral system

The 1987 constitution reintroduced the bicameral Congress, restoring the Senate. 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 all 24 seats were up for this election. Each voter has 24 votes, can vote up to 24 names, and the 24 candidates with the highest number of votes winning the seats. All winners shall serve until 1992.

Background

After Marcos was ousted in the People Power Revolution in 1986, his political party, the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, was fragmented. Almost all its members including Assemblymen Arturo Tolentino, Jose Roño, Nicanor Yñiguez, Cesar Virata who were coming from the Nacionalista Party among others were orphaned.

On the other hand, the Aquino coalition took all positions in the Ministry/Cabinet. Most notable were Prime Minister Salvador Laurel, Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel Jr. and Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo.

The Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN) consists of the PDP–Laban headed by Local Government Minister Pimentel, the Lakas ng Bansa party headed by Assemblyman Ramon Mitra, the UNIDO, the Liberal Party headed by Senator Jovito Salonga, the National Union of Christian Democrats headed by Raul Manglapus, the Bayang Nagkakaisa sa Diwa at Layunin (BANDILA) headed by Butz Aquino, Panaghuisa and other pro-Cory regional parties

The GAD consists of the faction of the KBL headed by Assemblyman Arturo Tolentino, the Jose Roy faction of the Nacionalista Party headed by Renato Cayetano, the pre-1986 opposition leaders who defected from Aquino headed by Senator Eva Estrada-Kalaw, the Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas headed by Former Labor Minister Blas Ople, the Mindanao Alliance, the Muslim Federal Party and the Christian Social Democratic Party.

The UPP-KBL coalition was composed of pro-Marcos forces. This coalition included some GAD candidates as guest candidates, and was considered to be the loyalist politicians of the Marcos government.

The Left also put up a seven-man slate, under the Partido ng Bayan banner. This includes the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and its allied organizations.

Other political parties who fielded candidates are the Lapiang Manggagawa, Lakas ng Bansa and the Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas, along with several independent candidates.

Candidates

There were major four coalitions for this election, of which two put up complete 24-person slate, while one had guest candidates to complete its slates, and one had a 7-member slate:

Lakas ng Bayan (People Power), supporters of President Corazon Aquino
Grand Alliance for Democracy, opposes Aquino
Union for Peace and Progress–Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (New Society Movement): supporters of former president Ferdinand Marcos
Partido ng Bayan (Party of the Nation), by the leftist Bagong Alyansang Makabayan

Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN)	Grand Alliance for Democracy (GAD)	Union for Peace and Progress–Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (UPP–KBL)	Partido ng Bayan (PnB)	Independents
Lakas ng Bayan}}		Grand Alliance for Democracy}}		Kilusang Bagong Lipunan}}	Partido ng Bayan}}	Independent}}
Heherson Alvarez	Firdausi Ismail Abbas	Vicente Abangan	Crispin Beltran	Silvino Barsana Agudo
Edgardo Angara	Homobono Adaza	Salvador Britanico	Jose Burgos Jr.	Oswaldo Carbonell
Butz Aquino	Alejandro Almendras	Rommel Corro	Bernabe Buscayno	Elpidio Dizon
Arthur Defensor	Abul Khayr Alonto	Edilberto del Valle	Romeo Capulong	Rodolfo Fariñas
Neptali Gonzales	Rene Espina	Concordio Diel	Horacio Morales	Glicerio Gervero
Teofisto Guingona Jr.	Joseph Estrada	Joseph Estrada	Nelia Sancho	Ramon A. Gonzales
Ernesto Herrera	Eva Estrada-Kalaw	Wenceslao Lagumbay	Jaime Tadeo	Manuel Manahan
Sotero Laurel	Wilson Gamboa	Macabangkit Lanto	rowspan="17"	Carmelito Montano
Joey Lina	Romeo Jalosjos Sr.	Pacifico Lopez de Leon	Manuel Pages
Ernesto Maceda	Roilo Golez	Vicente Magsaysay	Elly Pamatong
Raul Manglapus	Wenceslao Lagumbay	Norma Precy Mathay	Franco Rimando
Orly Mercado	Vicente Magsaysay	Vicente Millora	Liberato Roldan
John Henry Osmeña	Jeremias Montemayor	Edith Nakpil-Rabat	Ramon Revilla Sr.
Vicente Paterno	Edith Nakpil-Rabat	Salvador Panelo	Julian Taasan
Nene Pimentel	Blas Ople	Leonardo Perez	Antonio Velasco
Santanina Rasul	Rafael Palmares	Geronimo Quadra	rowspan="9"
Alberto Romulo	Zosimo Paredes	Antonio Raquiza
Rene Saguisag	Juan Ponce Enrile	Rafael Recto
Augusto Sanchez	Vicente Puyat	Isidro Rodriguez Sr.
Jovito Salonga	Isidro Rodriguez	Nilo Tayag
Leticia Ramos-Shahani	Francisco Tatad	Lorenzo Teves
Mamintal Tamano	Lorenzo Teves	Arturo Tolentino
Wigberto Tañada	Arturo Tolentino	Joaquin Venus
Victor Ziga	Fernando Veloso	Nicanor Yñiguez

Lapiang Manggagawa (LM)	Lakas ng Bayan (original; LABAN)	Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas (PNP)
Lapiang Manggagawa}}		Lakas ng Bayan}}	Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas}}
Jacinto Tamayo	Juan T. David	Leopoldo Quesada
Bienvenido Medrano

Results

The Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN) coalition won 22 seats, while the Grand Alliance for Democracy (GAD) won two.

Winners who had served in the 1935 constitution Senate were LABAN's Raul Manglapus, Ernesto Maceda, John Henry Osmeña, Jovito Salonga and Mamintal A.J. Tamano.

Winners who had served in the Batasang Pambansa were LABAN's Neptali Gonzales, Orlando S. Mercado, Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Alberto Romulo, and Victor Ziga, and GAD's Juan Ponce Enrile.

Winners who had neither served in the 1935 constitution Senate and in the 1973 constitution Batasang Pambansa were LABAN's Heherson Alvarez, Edgardo Angara, Butz Aquino, Teofisto Guingona Jr., Ernesto Herrera, Sotero Laurel, Joey Lina, Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Nina Rasul, Rene Saguisag and Wigberto Tañada, and GAD's Joseph Estrada.

The first 21 proclaimed winners were all seated on June 30, the day the terms start. The 22nd and 23rd senators were proclaimed a few days after June 30. Finally, the Commission on Elections, due to the tight race between GAD's Juan Ponce Enrile and LABAN's Augusto Sanchez, only declared the 24th winner by August.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	Before election	Election result	After election	Senate bloc
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Lakas ng Bayan}}	Majority bloc	Grand Alliance for Democracy}}

‡ Seats up
- Gained by a party from another party
^ Vacancy

Per candidate

Per coalition

References

Guerrero, Eileen. (August 13, 1987). "Enrile Proclaimed Senator, Says Will Take Oath Friday". [[AP News]].

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