Bacolod local elections, 2016

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Nominee	Evelio Leonardia	Monico Puentevella	Wilfredo David
Party	NPC	NUP	Independent
Running mate	El Cid Familiaran	Vladimir Gonzales
Popular vote	120,231	97,993	3,453
Percentage	54.2%	44.2%	1.4%

Mayor before election

Monico Puentevella
NUP

Elected Mayor

Evelio Leonardia
NPC

Monico Puentevella
NUP

Evelio Leonardia
NPC

Local elections was held in Bacolod City on May 9, 2016, as part of the Philippine general election. The elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, and twelve councilors, were filled in.

Former Mayor, now Bacolod Representative, Evelio Leonardia served out his term limitation for the mayoralty post as Bacolod's lone district representative to Congress. He chose to contest his former post against incumbent Mayor Monico Puentevella.

The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest amount of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.

List of candidates as of March 2016, and results as of May 9, 2016.

Election is via plurality-at-large voting: A voter votes for up to twelve candidates, then the ten candidates with the highest amount of votes are elected.

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