Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1957

Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1957

November 12, 1957

All 102 seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines 52 seats needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party   NP LP Leader Daniel Romualdez Cornelio Villareal Party Nacionalista Liberal Leader's seat Leyte–4th Capiz–2nd Last election 31 seats, 47.30% 59 seats, 39.81% Seats won 82 19 Seat change 51 40 Popular vote 2,948,409 1,453,527 Percentage 61.19% 30.17% Swing 13.89% 9.64%

Speaker before election José Laurel, Jr. Nacionalista Elected Speaker Daniel Romualdez Nacionalista

The Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on November 12, 1957. 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]

The elected representatives served in the 4th Congress from 1957 to 1961.

Results

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

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82 19 1

61.19% 30.17% Nacionalista Liberal ^[1] ^[2]

¹ Nationalist Citizens' Party: 2.85%

² No seats won: 5.81%

 Summary of the November 12, 1957 Philippine House of Representatives election results

Party		Popular vote			Seats won
		Total	%	Swing	Total	%	+/−
	Nacionalista	2,948,409	61.19%	13.89%	82	80.39%	51
	Liberal	1,453,527	30.17%	9.64%	19	18.63%	40
	NCP	137,093	2.85%	2.85%	1	0.98%	1
	Progressive	62,968	1.31%	1.31%	0	0.00%
	Independent Nacionalista	51,729	1.07%	0.04%	0	0.00%
	Democratic	42,890	0.89%	7.51%	0	0.00%	11
	United Rural Community	3,296	0.07%	0.07%	0	0.00%
	Independent Liberal	2,802	0.06%	0.58%	0	0.00%
	Lapiang Makabansa	1,765	0.04%	0.04%	0	0.00%
	People's (Veterans) Democratic Movement for Good Government	968	0.02%	0.02%	0	0.00%
	Partido'y Makahirap	524	0.01%	0.01%	0	0.00%
	National Patriotic	12	0.00%	0.00%	0	0.00%
	Independent	112,537	2.34%	0.38%	0	0.00%	1
Total		4,818,520	100%		102	100%
Valid votes		4,818,520	94.33%
Invalid votes		289,562	5.67%
Total turnout		5,108,082	75.52%
Registered voters		6,763,897	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. & Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph.

See also

• 4th Congress of the Philippines

References

1. Quezon, Manuel III (2007-06-06). "An abnormal return to normality". PCIJ.org. Retrieved 2010-12-06.

• 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.