Philippine Senate election, 2013

Philippine Senate election, 2013

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12 (of the 24) seats to the Senate of the Philippines 13 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Franklin Drilon Juan Ponce Enrile Party Liberal PMP Alliance Team PNoy UNA Last election Liberal-led coalition: 4 seats, 32.72% Liberal Party only: 3 seats, 26.34% PMP-led coalition: 5 seats, 36.47% PMP/PDP-Laban only: 3 seats, 18.09% Seats before Coalition: 14 (8 up) Liberal only: 4 (1 up) Coalition: 3 (1 up) UNA only: 3 (1 up) Seats won 9 3 Seats after 15 5 Seat change 1 2 Popular vote 175,716,460 90,808,675 Percentage 59.63% 30.82%
Cumulative vote totals of each coalition per province; Team PNoy had the majority of votes in every province except for Sulu. Candidates under the UNA banner had the plurality in a majority of provinces.
Senate President before election Juan Ponce Enrile UNA Elected Senate President Franklin Drilon Liberal

Juan Ponce Enrile
UNA

Franklin Drilon
Liberal

The 2013 election to the Senate of the Philippines was the 31st election to the Senate of the Philippines. It was held on Monday, May 13, 2013 to elect 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate. Together with those elected in 2010, the candidates elected in this election shall comprise the 16th Congress. The senators elected in 2010 will serve until June 30, 2016, while the senators elected in this election will serve up to June 30, 2019. The elections to the House of Representatives as well as local elections occurred on the same date. The Philippines use plurality-at-large voting for seats in the Senate: the twelve candidates with the highest number of votes win the twelve seats up for election. The Senate seat vacated by President Benigno Aquino III in 2010 was among the twelve seats to be put for election.

While the Philippines is a multi-party democracy since 1987, parties have not been able to complete a 12-candidate slate. This means parties have to form coalitions in order to complete a slate, this lessens the number of slates the voters have to choose for. In this election, the two coalitions that completed 12-candidate slates are Team PNoy led by the President Benigno Aquino III's Liberal Party, and the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) of former president Joseph Estrada's Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and Vice President Jejomar Binay's Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan; the two slates used to share three common candidates, until they were dropped by UNA.