1992 Philippine Senate election

1992 Philippine Senate election

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All 24 seats in the Senate 13 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Neptali Gonzales Ernesto Maceda Party LDP NPC Seats before 10 3 Seats after 16 5 Seat change 6 2 Popular vote 124,399,291 48,956,459 Percentage 45.0 17.7   Third party Fourth party   Leader Leticia Ramos-Shahani Wigberto Tañada Party Lakas Liberal Seats before 2 4 Seats after 2 1 Seat change 3 Popular vote 48,658,631 19,158,013 Percentage 17.6 6.9
Senate President before election Neptali Gonzales LDP Elected Senate President Neptali Gonzales LDP

The 1992 election of members to the Senate of the Philippines was the 24th election to the Senate of the Philippines. It was held on Monday, May 11, 1992. This was the first general election (where all positions were contested) under the 1987 Philippine Constitution. An estimated 80,000 candidates ran for 17,000 posts, from the presidency all the way down to municipal councilors.

Under the transitory provisions of the Philippine constitution, 24 senators were elected in this election. The first 12 senators who garnered the highest votes would have a six-year term while the next 12 senators would also have a three-year term. The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) got a large share in the Senate race. TV personality and former Quezon City Vice Mayor Vicente Sotto III (also known as Tito Sotto) got the highest number of votes.

Candidates

As the Senate elections were held with the presidential election, all 7 presidential candidates put up senatorial tickets. These were as follows:

These were the following tickets:

Retiring incumbents

1. Joseph Estrada (NPC), ran for Vice President of the Philippines and won
2. PDP–Laban
   ), retired from politics
3. PDP–Laban), ran for Vice President of the Philippines and lost, ran for senator in 1995 and lost, ran again in 1998
   and won
4. Juan Ponce Enrile (Nacionalista), ran for representative from Cagayan's 1st district and won; ran for senator in 1995 and won
5. Rene Saguisag (Liberal), originally promised to run for just one term; retired from politics
6. Jovito Salonga (Liberal), ran for President of the Philippines and lost

Mid-term vacancies

1. Raul Manglapus, appointed as Secretary of Foreign Affairs

Results

The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) winning 16 seats, the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) winning five, the Lakas-NUCD winning two, and the Liberal Party winning one.

These were the incumbents who won: Lakas's

Neophyte senators were LDP's Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Rodolfo Biazon, Blas Ople, Ramon Revilla Sr., Raul Roco, Tito Sotto and Freddie Webb, and NPC's Nikki Coseteng.

Returning was Arturo Tolentino, who last served in the Senate in 1971.

Incumbents who were defeated were LDP's

.

For purposes of counting of terms the three-year terms of those that finished 13th to 24th in this election count as one term, just as those who have six-year terms

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Before election	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡^
Election result	LDP																Lakas		LP	NPC
After election	+	+	+	+	+	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	*	+	√	√	√	+	√	√	*	+
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Key:

• ‡ Seats up
• + Gained by a party from another party
• √ Held by the incumbent
• * Held by the same party with a new senator
• ^ Vacancy

Tally of votes

The first 12 elected candidates were to serve from June 30, 1992, until June 30, 1998, while the following 12 elected candidates were to serve from June 30, 1992, until June 30, 1995.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Partido ng Masang Pilipino	38,581	0.16
	Ruperto Martin	Koalisyong Pambansa	11,784	0.05
	Datu Ray Ibrahim Uy	Nacionalista Party	6,278	0.03
	Melchor Chavez[a]	Koalisyong Pambansa	0	0.00
	Ceferino Padua[b]	Koalisyong Pambansa	0	0.00
Total			276,042,700	100.00
Total votes			24,254,954	–
Registered voters/turnout			32,141,079	75.46

Per party