Philippine Senate election, 1992

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All 24 seats in the Senate
13 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Neptali Gonzales	Ernesto Maceda
Party	LDP	NPC
Leader's seat	Nationwide at-large	Nationwide at-large
Seats before	6	0
Seats after	16	5
Seat change	10	5
Popular vote	124,399,291	48,956,459
Percentage	45.0	17.7

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Leticia Ramos-Shahani	Wigberto Tañada
Party	Lakas	Liberal
Leader's seat	Nationwide at-large	Nationwide at-large
Seats before	0	9
Seats after	2	1
Seat change	2	8
Popular vote	48,658,631	19,158,013
Percentage	17.6	6.9

Senate President before election

Neptali Gonzales
LDP

Elected Senate President

Neptali Gonzales
LDP

The senatorial election was held in the Philippines on May 11, 1992. This was the first general election (where all positions are contested) under the 1987 Philippine Constitution. An estimated 80,000 candidates ran for 17,000 posts from the presidency down to municipal councilors.

Under the transitory provisions of the Philippine constitution, 24 senators were elected in this election. The first 12 senators who garnered the highest votes would have a 6 six-year term while the next 12 senators would have a 3-year term. Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) got a large share in the Senate race. TV personality and Former Quezon City Vice Mayor Vicente Sotto III (also known as Tito Sotto) got the highest number of votes.

These are the following tickets:

The first 12 elected candidates were to serve from June 30, 1992 until June 30, 1998 while the following 12 elected candidates were to serve from June 30, 1992 until June 30, 1995.

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