1969 Philippine Senate election

21st Philippine senatorial election 1969 Philippine Senate election Philippines 1936 legislative no 1967 Philippine Senate election 1967 1971 Philippine Senate election 1971 November 11, 1969 8 (of the 24) seats in the Senate 13 Gil Puyat photo.jpg Gil Puyat Nacionalista Party 15 (4 up) 6 17 2 31,526,492 58.58 2.62 Gerry Roxas.jpg Gerardo Roxas Liberal Party (Philippines) 8 (4 up) 2 6 2 22,256,444 41.35 4.32 Senate President Gil Puyat Nacionalista Party Gil Puyat Nacionalista Party A senatorial election was held on November 11, 1969 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos won an unprecedented second full term as President of the Philippines, while his running mate, incumbent Vice President Fernando Lopez was also elected to a third full term as Vice President of the Philippines; their Nacionalista Party-mates also won six of the eight contested seats in the Philippine Senate increasing their majority in the Senate. Electoral system 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 8 seats are up every 2 years. The eight seats up were last contested in 1963; each voter has eight votes and can vote up to eight names, of which the eight candidates with the most votes win the election. Retiring incumbents There were no retiring incumbents in this election. Incumbents running elsewhere These ran in the middle of their Senate terms. For those losing in their respective elections, they can still return to the Senate to serve out their term, while the winners will vacate their Senate seats, then it would have been contested in a special election concurrently with the next general election. Genaro Magsasysay (Liberal, elected as a Nacionalista), ran for vice president and lost Sergio Osmeña Jr. (Liberal), ran for president and lost Results The Nacionalista Party won six seats, while the Liberal Party won two. Five incumbents successfully defended their seats. Liberals Ambrosio Padilla and Gerardo Roxas, and Nacionalistas José W. Diokno, Gil Puyat, and Arturo Tolentino. Mamintal A.J. Tamano and Rene Espina of the Nacionalistas are the neophyte senators elected in this election. Nacionalista Lorenzo Sumulong returns to the Senate after last serving in 1967. Three senators lost their reelection bids: Juan Liwag and Tecla San Andres Ziga of the Liberals, and Nacionalistas' Rodolfo Ganzon. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24Before election‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡Election resultNot upLPNPNot upAfter election√√ + + + √ √ √ Key: ‡ Seats up + Gained by a party from another party √ Held by the incumbent * Held by the same party with a new senator Per candidate Per party Up Before Won After +/− 300px Nacionalista Party 31526492 +2.82 4 15 6 17 +2 Liberal Party 22256444 +4.32 4 8 2 6 −2 Partido ng Bansa 16525 −0.02 0 0 0 0 0 Partido Bagong Pilipino 9087 New 0 0 0 0 0 National Liberal Party New 3843 0 0 0 0 0 New Party 7321 New 0 0 0 0 0 Partido ng Manggagawa/Labor Party 1440 New 0 0 0 0 0 New Leaf Party 947 New 0 0 0 0 0 Nationalist Citizens' Party 0 1 0 1 0 8 24 8 24 0 8202793 10300898 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 15 November 2001 OUP Oxford 9780199249596 https://books.google.com/books?id=YK8SDAAAQBAJElectoral Politics in the Philippines Julio Teehankee https://www.quezon.ph/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/Electoral%20Politics%20in%20the%20Philippines.pdf quezon.ph Vote share #ddd 600px 410px NP Nacionalista Party 58.58 LP Liberal Party (Philippines) 41.35 Others gray 0.07 Senate seats #ddd 600px 410px NP Nacionalista Party 75.00 LP Liberal Party (Philippines) 25.00 Others gray 0.00 Defeated incumbents Rodolfo Ganzon (Nacionalista), ran for mayor of Iloilo CIty in 1971 and won Juan Liwag (Liberal), ran for delegate at the Constitutional Convention in 1970 and won Tecla San Andres Ziga (Liberal), retired from politics See also Commission on Elections 7th Congress of the Philippines References External links The Philippine Presidency Project Official website of the Commission on Elections 1969 Category:1969 elections in the Philippines