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A total of 325 National positions and 17,762 local positions are up for grabs for the 2022 National and Local Elections. At the same time, 80 positions will be elected for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Parliament.
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and many local politicians are top ad spenders on Facebook a year before the polls. The Commission on Elections is drafting rules to govern online campaigning.
Administration candidates dominated the 2019 senatorial elections in the Philippines. Nine of the 12 elected senators ran under administration coalition Hugpong ng Pagbabago while main opposition alliance Otso Diretso failed to win any senate seat.
51 Party-list groups filled 61 seats in the Philippine House of Representatives in the 2019 elections. The top two party-lists, ACT-CIS and Bayan Muna, each obtained the maximum allowable three seats for their nominees.
A total of 861 candidates ran unopposed for local positions in the Philippines in its 2019 elections. With 99 unopposed candidates, Maguindanao stood out among all the provinces and cities of the country.
The Philippines saw a high voter turnout in its 2016 presidential elections. Overall, 82% of the country’s registered voters actually exercised their right to vote.
The Philippines had 56.4M registered voters for its 2016 general elections. That pool, which ultimately placed Rodrigo Duterte as the country’s 16th president, was made up of literate and mostly young adult voters.
Source of basic data: Election Records and Statistics Division, Commission on Elections
Notes: Three provinces were not included in the 2019 files provided by Comelec to PCIJ. The data above do include votes cast overseas.
Photograph: PCIJ
Source of basic data: Election Records and Statistics Division, Commission on Elections (Comelec ERSD does not have undervoting data from 2013 and 2010.)
Notes: An undervote for party-list means no oval was shaded in the ballot, while an overvote means more than one oval were shaded. Three provinces were not included in the 2019 files provided by Comelec to PCIJ. The data above do include votes cast overseas.
Photograph: PCIJ