Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1946

← 1943

April 23, 1946

1949 →

All 98 seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
50 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
	NL		DA
Leader	Eugenio Pérez	Cipriano Primicias, Sr.	Luis Taruc
Party	Nacionalista (Liberal wing)	Nacionalista	Democratic Alliance
Leader's seat	Pangasinan–2nd	Pangasinan–4th	Pampanga–2nd
Seats before	new party	95	new party
Seats won	49	35	6
Seat change	49	60	6
Popular vote	908,740	1,069,971	152,410
Percentage	38.89%	45.78%	6.52%

Speaker before election

José Zulueta
Nacionalista

Elected Speaker

Eugenio Pérez
Nacionalista (Liberal wing)

José Zulueta
Nacionalista

Eugenio Pérez
Nacionalista (Liberal wing)

The Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on April 23, 1946. Held on the same day as the presidential election, it was held after the Nacionalista Party had split permanently into two factions: the "Conservative" faction headed by president Sergio Osmeña and the "Liberal" faction headed by Senate president Manuel Roxas which will later be the Liberal Party. Roxas and the Liberals won the elections leaving the Nacionalistas in the minority in both houses of Congress.

Candidates from the leftist Democratic Alliance won six seats in the House of Representatives but were not allowed to take their seats on grounds of fraud and violent campaign tactics during the election. Five of them were later restored their seats but only after a constitution amendment concerning parity rights to U.S. citizens was approved. That approval was required by the Bell Trade Act of the United States Congress and led to the 1947 Philippine Parity Rights plebiscite to amend the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines.

The top bar represents seats won, while the bottom bar represents the proportion of votes received.

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