Philippine Senate election, 1949

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8 (of the 24) seats in the Senate
13 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Mariano Jesús Cuenco	Carlos P. Garcia
Party	Liberal	Nacionalista
Leader's seat	Nationwide at-large	Nationwide at-large
Seats before	15	8
Seats after	18	4
Seat change	3	4
Popular vote	12,782,449	8,900,568
Percentage	52.5%	36.6%
Swing	1.9%	8.4%

Senate President before election

Mariano Jesús Cuenco
Liberal

Elected Senate President

Mariano Jesús Cuenco
Liberal

Elections for the members of the Senate were held on November 8, 1949 in the Philippines.

While President Elpidio Quirino won a full term as President of the Philippines after the death of President Manuel Roxas in 1948, and his running mate, Senator Fernando Lopez won as Vice President, their Liberal Party won all of the contested seats in the Senate. Despite factions created in the administration party, Quirino won a satisfactory vote from the public.

It was the only time in Philippine history where the duly elected president, vice president and senators all came from the same party, the Liberal Party.

Carlos P. Romulo and Marvin M. Gray, publisher of the Manila Evening News, accuse Quirino in their book The Magsaysay Story (The John Day Company, 1956, updated - with an additional chapter on Magsaysay's death - re-edition by Pocket Books, Special Student Edition, SP-18, December 1957) of widespread fraud and intimidation of the opposition by military action, calling it the "dirty election".

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