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Laguna local elections, 2016

Laguna gubernatorial election, 2016
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← 2013 May 9, 2016 2019 →
 
Nominee Ramil L. Hernandez Jorge Antonio Ejercito (withdrew) ER Ejercito
Party Nacionalista PGP UNA
Running mate Katherine Agapay Angelica Jones (Liberal) Christian Lajara
Popular vote 606,002 336,797 232,927
Percentage 51.1 28.4 19.7

Governor before election

Ramil L. Hernandez
Nacionalista

Elected Governor

Ramil L. Hernandez
Nacionalista


Ramil L. Hernandez
Nacionalista

Ramil L. Hernandez
Nacionalista

The Laguna local elections will be held on May 9, 2016, as part of the 2016 general election. Voters will select candidates for all local positions: a town mayor, vice mayor and town councilors, as well as members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the vice-governor, governor and representatives for the four districts of Laguna, including the newly created Biñan lone district.

Incumbent Governor Ramil Hernandez is running for his first full three-year term as governor. Hernandez assumed the governorship in 2014 after the Commission on Elections disqualifies ER Ejercito for campaign overspending in the 2013 elections. Ejercito is seeking to regain his post.

Hernandez running mate is Vice Governor Katherine Agapay while Niño Lajara is Ejercito's running mate.

Incumbent governor Ramil Hernandez, who was the vice governor at that time, assumed office on May 27, 2014. This after the Commission on Elections disqualified incumbent Governor ER Ejercito, also known as Jorge Estregan, due to campaign overspending during the 2013 elections. When Ejercito was about to step down upon the advice of his uncle, former Philippine President and incumbent Mayor of Manila Joseph Estrada, he declared a statement:

This clearly states his intention to run in 2016. Ejercito is running under the United Nationalist Alliance to reclaim the governorship of the province. His running mate is Christian Niño Lajara, son of former Calamba Mayor Severino Lajara.

Under the Nacionalista Party, Hernandez will run for his first full three-year term as governor of the province, with Vice Governor Katherine Agapay as his running mate. Agapay, being the senior board member, assumed as vice governor upon the assumption of Hernandez as governor.

On October 2, 2015, on the LP Provincial convention at Sta. Cruz, Laguna and birthday party of Rep. Benjie Agarao, which attended by Presidential Candidate Mar Roxas and Senatorial Candidate Francis Tolentino, which become controversial that Tolentino sent girl group Play Girls for a dance show, which was criticized by netizens due to obscene performance.


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