Legislative districts of Manila

Areas now under the jurisdiction of Manila were initially represented as part of the at-large district of the province of Manila in the Malolos Congress from 1898 to 1899; the district elected four representatives.

The city of Manila, chartered in 1901, first gained separate representation in 1907. It was initially divided into two representative districts from 1907 to 1949. When seats for the upper house of the Philippine Legislature were elected from territory-based districts between 1916 and 1935, the city formed part of the fourth senatorial district which elected two out of the 24-member Senate.

In the disruption caused by the Second World War, Manila was incorporated into the City of Greater Manila on January 1, 1942, through Manuel Quezon's Executive Order No. 400 as a wartime emergency measure. Greater Manila was represented by two delegates in the National Assembly of the Japanese-sponsored Second Philippine Republic: one was the city mayor (an ex officio member), while the other was elected through a citywide assembly of KALIBAPI members during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

Upon the restoration of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1945, Manila's pre-war two-district representation was retained; this remained so until 1949. By virtue of the Revised Charter of the City of Manila,[1] enacted on June 18, 1949, the city was divided into four congressional districts. The city elected four representatives from the 2nd Congress up to the 7th Congress.

The city was represented in the Interim Batasang Pambansa as part of Region IV from 1978 to 1984, and elected six representatives, at large, to the Regular Batasang Pambansa in 1984.

Manila was reapportioned into six congressional districts under the new Constitution[2] which was proclaimed on February 11, 1987. It elected members to the restored House of Representatives starting that same year.

The city was last apportioned upon the proclamation of the 1987 Constitution, where it was granted six seats in Congress. The city's current congressional delegation composes of two members of Lakas-CMD, two members of the National Unity Party, one member of Aksyon Demokratiko, and one member of the Nationalist People's Coalition; all six members are also members of the Asenso Manileño local party. All six representatives are part of the majority bloc in the 19th Congress.

Legislative districts and representatives of Manila

District	Current Representative		Party				Constituent LGUs	Area	Population (2020)	Map
			Local		National
1st		Ernesto M. Dionisio Jr. (since 2022)		Asenso Manileño		Lakas-CMD	List Western Tondo 1-146	4.57 km2	441,282[3]
2nd		Rolando M. Valeriano (since 2019)				NUP	List Gagalangin 147-267	4.08 km2	212,938[3]
3rd		Joel R. Chua (since 2022)				Aksyon Demokratiko	List Binondo, Quiapo, San Nicolas, Santa Cruz 268-394	6.24 km2	220,029[3]
4th		Edward Michael V.P. Maceda (since 2016)				NPC	List Sampaloc 395-586	5.14 km2	388,305[3]
5th		William Irwin C. Tieng (since 2022)				Lakas-CMD	List Ermita, Intramuros, Malate, Port Area, San Andres, south Paco including Manila South Cemetery 649-828	11.56 km²	395,065[3]
6th		Bienvenido M. Abante Jr. (since 2019)				NUP	List north Paco, Pandacan, San Miguel, Santa Ana, Santa Mesa 587-648; 829-905	7.79 km²	300,186[3]

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