Philippine House of Representatives elections, 2007

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All 270 seats in the House of Representatives
136 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jose de Venecia	Pablo P. Garcia	Arnulfo Fuentebella
Party	Lakas	KAMPI	NPC
Alliance	TEAM Unity	TEAM Unity	TEAM Unity
Leader's seat	Pangasinan–4th	Cebu–2nd	Camarines Sur–3rd
Last election	92 seats	2 seats	53 seats
Seats won	89	44	28
Seat change	3	42	25

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Joseph Emilio Abaya	Carlos M. Padilla	Ronaldo Zamora
Party	Liberal	Nacionalista	PMP
Alliance	GO	GO	GO
Leader's seat	Cavite–2nd	Nueva Vizcaya-Lone	San Juan City-Lone
Last election	29 seats	2 seats	7 seats w/ PDP-Laban
Seats won	23	11	9 w/ PDP-Laban & UNO
Seat change	6	9	2

Speaker before election

Jose de Venecia
Lakas

Elected Speaker

Jose de Venecia
Lakas

The 2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections were held on May 14, 2007, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines to serve in the 14th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2007, until June 30, 2010. The Philippines uses parallel voting for seats in the House of Representatives.

In district elections, 219 single-member constituencies elect one member of the House of Representatives. The candidate with the highest number of votes wins that district's seat. In the party-list election, the parties with at least 2% of the national vote were elected, and 21 representatives were elected However, later in 2007 the Supreme Court ruled in Banat vs. COMELEC that the 2% quota was unconstitutional, and that the sectoral representatives should comprise exactly 20% of the House. This led to the increase in the number of sectoral representatives to 51.

The administration-led TEAM Unity maintained control of the House of Representatives although the opposition-backed Genuine Opposition won control of the Senate. Incumbent Speaker Jose de Venecia of Pangasinan was elected Speaker after being the only one nominated: 186 voted for De Venecia, 1 against (Eduardo Joson) and 24 abstentions.

The Genuine Opposition (GO) targeted to win at least 80 seats to be able to impeach President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; however the administration's TEAM Unity prevented GO in winning several of those seats by fielding in strong candidates against GO in those districts.

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