2013 Philippine local elections

Elections by position

Regional-level elections

Main article: 2013 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao general election

The election was scheduled for 2011, but was postponed to 2013 to be synchronized with the rest of the country. The winning candidates will take over from the appointees of President Benigno Aquino III, who replaced the officials who had their terms expire on 2011.

Provincial-level elections

Each province is headed by a governor and a vice governor. The governor is the chief executive of the province, while the vice governor acts as the governor once the latter is unable to perform his duties, and has the casting vote in the provincial board in case of a tie on a measure, among other powers. While most governors and vice governors run on one ticket, the positions are elected separately, and the winners may come from different tickets.

Each province has a Sangguniang Panlalawigan or provincial board, the legislative body of the province. A province's number of provincial board members depends on its financial standing (generally, the more populous provinces are richer), with the richest provinces having up to 14 board members. In addition, the provincial board has a seat reserved for the president of the provincial chapter of the League of Councilors which are indirectly elected from the city and municipal levels, and two more seats reserved for the presidents of the provincial chapters of the Association of Barangay (village) Captains (ABC) and of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK; youth councils). These ex officio members are indirectly elected from the municipal and city levels, which were elected by the people in 2010; an election later in the year may change the membership of those two ex officio members.

Election for the provincial board is via first past the post for single-member districts, and plurality-at-large voting for multi-member districts.

Details

City-level elections

The executive and legislative branches of cities are modeled after provinces, with a mayor, vice mayor and a city council made up of councilors. The city council has up to 36 regular members elected via plurality-at-large voting. Some cities are divided into councilor districts; if a city is divided into two or more congressional districts, the councilor districts would be coextensive with these. Some cities aren't divided into councilor districts; in cases such as this, the entire membership is elected at-large, with the city as one "district". Aside from these regular members, city councils also have two ex officio members composed of the president of the city chapters of the Association of Barangay (village) Captains (ABC) and of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK; youth councils). These ex officio members are indirectly elected from the barangay level, which were elected by the people in 2010; an election later in the year may change the membership of those two ex officio members.

In the results tables above, in cases when a candidate ran under two parties, a national party and a local party, the seat is credited to the national party. Therefore, all seats won by local parties here refer to parties that did not include a name of a national party on the ballot.

Largest 10 cities

Other cities

Municipal-level elections

The executive and legislative branches of cities are modeled after cities, with the municipal councils being composed of eight (twelve in Pateros) regular members elected at-large. As with city councils, municipal councils have two ex officio members: one each from the municipal presidents of the Association of Barangay Captains, and of the Sangguniang Kabataan, all indirectly elected from the barangay level.

Barangay-level elections

Main article: 2013 Philippine barangay elections

Elections for barangay level were held in October 2013. Each barangay has a chairman and seven kagawads (councilors) elected at large.

Elections by locality

• Gubernatorial elections (list)

By locality:

• Batangas
  • Lipa
• Bohol
• Bukidnon
  • Valencia
• Bulacan
  • Bocaue
• Cavite
  • Dasmariñas
  • Imus
• Cebu
• Laguna
  • Biñan
  • Cabuyao
  • Calamba
  • San Pablo
  • San Pedro
  • Santa Rosa
• Iligan
• Metro Manila
  • Caloocan
  • Makati
  • Manila
  • Marikina
  • Navotas
  • Quezon City
  • Taguig
  • Valenzuela
• Quezon
• Sarangani
• Zamboanga City
• Naga

Campaign

For April 14 weekend, Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines' Vice President Archbishop Socrates Villegas instructed priests to tell their flock during mass "not to vote for the candidate if the candidate cannot declare a categorical and clear 'no' to divorce, abortion, euthanasia, total birth control and homosexual marriages or death issues." This was seen as a setback for President Benigno Aquino's allies who had passed a birth control law the previous year.

References

References

1. (October 1, 2012). "All systems go for the filing of COCs starting Monday --Comelec". Sun Star.
2. "Filipinos told to vote 'pro-life'".