Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1998

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May 11, 1998

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All 258 seats in the House of Representatives (including 38 underhang seats)
130 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
			LP
Leader	Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.	Manuel Villar, Jr.	Raul Daza
Party	Lakas	LAMMP	Liberal
Leader's seat	Quezon City–4th	Las Piñas	Northern Samar–1st
Last election	100 seats, 40.66%	new party	5 seats, 1.86%
Seats won	111	55	15
Seat change	11	55	10
Popular vote	11,981,024	6,520,744	1,773,124
Percentage	49.01%	26.68%	7.25%
Swing	8.35%	26.68%	5.39%

Speaker before election

Jose de Venecia, Jr.
Lakas

Elected Speaker

Manuel Villar, Jr.
LAMMP

Jose de Venecia, Jr.
Lakas

Manuel Villar, Jr.
LAMMP

The Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 11, 1998. Held on the same day as the presidential election, the party of the incumbent president, Fidel V. Ramos' Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, won majority of the seats in the House of Representatives. For the first time since the People Power Revolution, a party won majority of the seats in the House; Lakas had a seat over the majority. This is also the first Philippine elections that included the party-list system.

However, with Joseph Estrada of the opposition Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino (LAMMP; an electoral alliance between the Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), the NPC and the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP)) winning the presidential election, the majority of the elected Lakas-NUCD-UMDP congressmen switched sides to LAMMP. This led to Manuel Villar, Jr. (formerly of Lakas but became a LAMMP member prior to the election) on being elected as the Speaker of the House.

The elected representatives served in the 11th Congress from 1998 to 2001.

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

A. ^ Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino was the PMP/LDP/NPC coalition.
B. ^ Partido ng Demokratikong Reporma-Lapiang Manggagawa was the Reporma/LM coalition.

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