Philippine Senate election, 2001

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12 (of the 24) seats to the Senate of the Philippines and one mid-term vacancy
12 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Franklin Drilon	Edgardo Angara
Party	Independent	LDP
Alliance	PPC	Puwersa ng Masa
Leader's seat	Nationwide at-large	Nationwide at-large
Last election	5 seats	7 seats
Seats before	10	12
Seats won	8	4
Seats after	15	8
Seat change	5	4
Popular vote	123,491,617	95,072,114
Percentage	50.8%	39.1%

Senate President before election

Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
PDP-Laban

Elected Senate President

Franklin Drilon
Independent

Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
PDP-Laban

Franklin Drilon
Independent

The senatorial election was held in the Philippines on May 14, 2001 Independent candidate Noli de Castro, a former television anchor of TV Patrol of ABS-CBN was announced as the topnotcher. This is the first synchronized national and local elections held after the ouster of Former President Joseph Estrada in January due to a military-backed civilian uprising (popularly known as EDSA II).

The two competing coalitions in this election were the People Power Coalition (PPC) which supported Estrada's ouster, and the Puwersa ng Masa (Force of the Masses) coalition that supported Estrada. The PPC was composed of Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, Reporma-LM, Aksyon Demokratiko, PROMDI, Liberal Party and the PDP-Laban; the Puwersa ng Masa included the LDP, Partido ng Masang Pilipino and other pro-Estrada independents. There were supposed to be twelve seats to be contested but with the appointment of Teofisto Guingona as vice president, the Commission on Elections ruled that the thirteenth-placed candidate will serve the remainder of Guingona's term.

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