Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1961

Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1961

November 14, 1961

All 104 seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines 53 seats needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party   NP LP Leader Daniel Romualdez Cornelio Villareal Party Nacionalista Liberal Leader's seat Leyte–1st Capiz–2nd Last election 82 seats, 61.19% 19 seats, 30.17% Seats won 74 29 Seat change 8 10 Popular vote 3,923,390 2,167,641 Percentage 61.02% 33.71% Swing 0.17% 3.54%

Speaker before election Daniel Romualdez Nacionalista Elected Speaker Cornelio Villareal Liberal

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The Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on November 14, 1961. Held on the same day as the presidential election, the party of the incumbent president, Carlos P. Garcia's Nacionalista Party, won majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.^[1] However, Diosdado Macapagal of the opposition Liberal Party won the presidential election which led to majority of the elected Nacionalista congressman to switch sides to the Liberals. This led to Cornelio Villareal on being elected as the Speaker of the House.

The elected representatives served in the 5th Congress from 1961 to 1965.

Results

The top bar represents seats won, while the bottom bar represents the proportion of votes received.

 Summary of the November 14, 1961 Philippine House of Representatives election results

Party		Popular vote			Seats won
		Total	%	Swing	Total	%	+/−
	Nacionalista	3,923,390	61.02%	0.17%	74	71.15%	8
	Liberal	2,167,641	33.71%	3.54%	29	27.88%	10
	Independent Liberal	47,614	0.74%	0.68%	0	0.00%
	Independent Nacionalista	40,220	0.63%	0.44%	0	0.00%
	NCP	7,837	0.12%	2.73%	0	0.00%	1
	Independent	243,110	3.78%	1.44%	1	0.96%	1
Total		6,429,812	100%		104	100%	2
Valid votes		6,429,812	95.41%
Invalid votes		308,993	4.59%
Total turnout		6,738,805	79.43%
Registered voters		8,483,568	100%
Sources: Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann, Graham Hassall & Soliman M. Santos. Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link) & Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph.

See also

• 5th Congress of the Philippines

References

• The Presidents of the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines. ISBN 971-8832-24-6. 
• Pobre, Cesar P. Philippine Legislature 100 Years. ISBN 971-92245-0-9. 
• Teehankee, Julio. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph. Retrieved 2010-12-06. 

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