Agusan's at-large congressional district
Agusan's at-large congressional district may refer to several occasions when a provincewide at-large district was used for elections to Philippine national legislatures from the formerly undivided province of Agusan.
Agusan was created as a special province from territories previously organized under
Governor General as one at-large district beginning with the 4th Philippine Legislature in 1916.[3] In 1934 following the passage of the Tydings–McDuffie Act, Agusan elected its own delegate for the first time to the 1934 Philippine Constitutional Convention which was charged with the drafting of a new constitution for the Commonwealth of the Philippines.[4] The province then began to send a representative to the Commonwealth National Assembly from its single-member at-large district created under the 1935 constitution.[5]
Agusan was also represented in the
Third Philippine Republic. After the 1967 division of Agusan, the district was abolished and replaced by Agusan del Norte's and Agusan del Sur's at-large districts.[2][6]
Representation history
| # | Term of office | National Assembly |
Single seat | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Member | Party | Electoral history | |||||||||
Agusan's at-large district for the National Assembly (Commonwealth of the Philippines) | |||||||||||||
| District created February 8, 1935.[5] | |||||||||||||
| 1 | September 16, 1935 | December 30, 1941 | 1st | Apolonio D. Curato | Nacionalista Demócrata Pro-Independencia (nominal) Liga Popular Aguseña |
Elected in 1935. | |||||||
| 2nd | Nacionalista Liga Popular Aguseña |
Re-elected in 1938. | |||||||||||
| # | Term of office | National Assembly |
Seat A | Seat B | |||||||||
| Start | End | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | ||||||
Agusan's at-large district for the National Assembly (Second Philippine Republic) | |||||||||||||
| District re-created September 7, 1943.[7] | |||||||||||||
| – | September 25, 1943 | February 2, 1944 | 3rd | Elisa Ochoa | KALIBAPI | Elected in 1943. | Ramón Z. Aguirre | KALIBAPI | Appointed as an ex officio member. | ||||
| # | Term of office | Common wealth Congress |
Single seat | Seats eliminated | |||||||||
| Start | End | Member | Party | Electoral history | |||||||||
Agusan's at-large district for the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of the Philippines | |||||||||||||
| District re-created May 24, 1945. | |||||||||||||
| 2 | June 11, 1945 | May 25, 1946 | 1st | Elisa Ochoa | Nacionalista | Elected in 1941. | |||||||
| # | Term of office | Congress | Single seat | ||||||||||
| Start | End | Member | Party | Electoral history | |||||||||
Agusan's at-large district for the House of Representatives of the Philippines | |||||||||||||
| 3 | May 25, 1946 | December 30, 1953 | 1st | Marcos M. Calo | Liberal | Elected in 1946. | |||||||
| 2nd | Re-elected in 1949. | ||||||||||||
| 4 | December 30, 1953 | December 30, 1965 | 3rd | Guillermo R. Sánchez | Nacionalista | Elected in 1953. | |||||||
| 4th | Re-elected in 1957. | ||||||||||||
| 5th | Re-elected in 1961. | ||||||||||||
| 5 | December 30, 1965 | December 30, 1969 | 6th | José C. Aquino | Liberal | Elected in 1965. | |||||||
| District dissolved into Agusan del Norte's and Agusan del Sur's at-large districts. | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ "Act No. 1693, (1907-08-20)". Lawyerly. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ a b "Roster of Philippine legislators". House of Representatives of the Philippines. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ "Act No. 2309, (1913-12-20)". Lawyerly. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ "Act No. 4125, (1934-05-26)". Lawyerly. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ a b "The 1935 Constitution". Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ "Republic Act No. 4979". Official Gazette (Philippines). June 17, 1967. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ "The 1943 Constitution". Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved February 25, 2021.
