Philippine Senate election, 2007

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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Francis Pangilinan	Manny Villar	Juan Miguel Zubiri
Party	Liberal	Nacionalista	Lakas
Alliance	GO	GO	TEAM Unity
Leader's seat	Nationwide at-large	Nationwide at-large	Nationwide at-large
Last election	2 seats, 11.8%	Did not participate	4 seats, 31.7%
Seats before	4	2	6
Seats won	2	2	1
Seats after	4	3	4
Seat change		1	2
Popular vote	28,843,415	27,125,724	59,973,862
Percentage	10.7%	10.1%	22.3%
Swing	1.1%	10.1%	5.1%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Juan Ponce Enrile	Edgardo Angara
Party	PMP	LDP
Alliance	GO	TEAM Unity
Leader's seat	Nationwide at-large	Nationwide at-large
Last election	2 seats, 12.0%	1 seat, 5.2%
Seats before	4	2
Seats won	0	1
Seats after	2	2
Seat change	2
Popular vote	Did not participate	12,657,538
Percentage	0.0%	4.7%
Swing	12.0%	0.5%

Senate President before election

Manny Villar
Nacionalista

Elected Senate President

Manny Villar
Nacionalista

Election to the Senate of the Philippines was held on Monday, May 14, 2007. This is to elect 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate. Together with those elected in 2004, they will comprise the 14th Congress via plurality-at-large voting. The senators elected in 2004 will serve until June 30, 2010, while the senators elected in this election will serve up to June 30, 2013. The elections to the House of Representatives as well as local elections occurred on the same date. The Philippines uses plurality-at-large voting for seats in the Senate.

In the election, the opposition-backed alliance called the Genuine Opposition (GO) defeated the administration-led alliance TEAM Unity by winning seven of the twelve seats in the Senate. For the first time in Philippine history, Antonio Trillanes IV was elected as a senator while currently detained for mutiny and rebellion charges. Almost the incumbents running for reelection won except for Ralph Recto who was at fourteenth place.

On March 19, 2007 COMELEC released Resolution No.7832 which finalized and approved the official candidates for the senatorial election. On March 29, 2007 COMELEC certified 37 Senatorial Candidates:

On March 11, 2007 the Old COMELEC Building in Intramuros, Manila was burned by a blazing fire ruining several ballot boxes and pending election protests. The Genuine Opposition considered the fire as political act which ended in burning of several election protests and contested ballot boxes. Investigators found out that instead of arson, it was the generator of the building which caused and since the building was built with tar and wood it would easily razed by fire. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is facing scrutiny because of the fire that hit its old building on March 11 resulting in speculations of conspiracies to cheat on the May 14 elections [2]. The COMELEC was also lambasted for publishing on the internet the names, addresses and details of registered voters. [3]

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