Snap Elections of 1986

Philippine presidential election, 1986

← 1981 February 7, 1986 1992 →
Turnout	78.8% 2.1%
Nominee Corazon C. Aquino Ferdinand E. Marcos Party PDP-Laban KBL Running mate Salvador H. Laurel Arturo M. Tolentino Popular vote 7,502,601 (NAMFREL) 9,291,716 (COMELEC) 6,787,556 (NAMFREL) 10,807,197 (COMELEC) Percentage 46.10% (COMELEC, later nullified) 53.62% (COMELEC, later nullified)
Election results per province/city.
President before election Ferdinand E. Marcos KBL Elected President Corazon C. Aquino UNIDO

Ferdinand E. Marcos
KBL

Corazon C. Aquino
UNIDO

The Philippine presidential election, 1986 or more popularly known in the Philippines as The Snap Election were held on 7 February 1986. This is subject to debate as there are many discrepancies on the number of votes and the winner of the elections. The two main candidates, Corazon C. Aquino and Ferdinand E. Marcos, representing the PDP-Laban party and the KBL party respectively both won the election due to different counting by NAMFREL and the COMELEC. It is believed that Marcos committed fraud in the tallying of votes. Following this, both the United States of America and the Church gave statements supporting Aquino's accession as President. This event is known to be the catalyst for the end of the Marcos Regime as it brought about the People Power Revolution.

After being dared by an American journalist, President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared a snap election during an interview on the American Broadcasting Company political affairs programme, This Week with David Brinkley in November 1985. On 3 December, the Batasang Pambansa passed a law setting the date of the election on 7 February 1986 On 4 February 1986, Marcos declared 6 and 7 February as nationwide non-working special public holidays to "give all registered voters fullest opportunity to exercise their right of suffrage."