1951 Philippine Senate election

1951 Philippine Senate election
	November 13, 1951
8 (of the 24) seats in the Senate, 1 special election for a mid-term vacancy; 13 seats needed for a majority
Senate President before election; Mariano Jesús Cuenco; Liberal	Elected Senate President ; Quintin Paredes; Liberal

A senatorial election was held in the Philippines on November 13, 1951. The election was known as a midterm election as the date when elected candidates take office falls halfway through President Elpidio Quirino's four-year term.

Summary

As the Hukbalahap insurgency raged in Central Luzon, Filipinos trooped to the polling booths for the 1951 midterm elections—a referendum on President Quirino, who had won the presidency in his own right two years prior. Despite the political remarriage of the two factions of the Liberal Party, the Quirinistas and Avelinistas, the Quirino administration was still far from popular and had gained notoriety for its inability to rein in corruption and its ineffectual attempts to police lawlessness in the countryside. The Nacionalistas took advantage of the situation and mounted an active campaign to wrest back the Senate from the LP. Led by former President Jose P. Laurel, Quirino’s chief adversary in the 1949 presidential polls, the NP swept all eight Senate seats in contention, the first total victory of the opposition in the Senate. So strong was the rejection of the Quirino administration in 1951 that even LP top honcho, Senate President Mariano Jesus Cuenco, lost his seat. Laurel received the highest number of votes, which was seen as his political rehabilitation and which made him the first and only president, thus far, to have served in the Senate after his presidency.

Felisberto Verano, also a Nacionalista, won the special elections held on the same day to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice-President Fernando Lopez.

Block voting, established in 1941, was abolished in 1951 with Republic Act No. 599. This would later lead to more fragmented results in most national elections.[1]

Retiring incumbents

Liberal Party

Melecio Arranz
Jose Avelino
Vicente J. Francisco
Ramon Torres

Mid-term vacancies

Fernando Lopez, (Liberal, took office as vice president December 30, 1949)
Vicente Sotto, (Popular Front, died July 16, 1950)
Tomas Confesor (Nacionalista, died June 5, 1951)

Results

The Nacionalista Party won all eight seats contested in the general election, and the seat contested in the special election.

Former Senate President Mariano Jesús Cuenco was the sole incumbent defeated, while Carlos P. Garcia successfully defended his seat.

Six winners are neophyte Nacionalista senators: Manuel Briones, Francisco Afan Delgado, Jose Locsin, Cipriano Primicias Sr., Gil Puyat and Jose Zulueta.

Nacionalista Jose P. Laurel returned to the Senate after serving from 1925 to 1931.

	1	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
Before election		‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡^	‡^	‡^	‡

Election result	Not up	NP									Not up
After election		+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	√

Key:

‡ Seats up
+ Gained by a party from another party
√ Held by the incumbent
* Held by the same party with a new senator
^ Vacancy

Per candidate

Summary of the November 13, 1951, Philippine Senate election result
Rank	Candidate		Votes	%
1.	José P. Laurel	Nacionalista	2,143,452	48.8%
2.	Gil Puyat	Nacionalista	1,906,402	43.4%
3.	Manuel Briones	Nacionalista	1,774,687	40.4%
4.	Carlos P. Garcia	Nacionalista	1,573,095	35.8%
5.	Francisco Afan Delgado	Nacionalista	1,534,176	34.9%
6.	Cipriano Primicias Sr.	Nacionalista	1,487,159	33.9%
7.	Jose Locsin	Nacionalista	1,452,577	33.1%
8.	Jose Zulueta	Nacionalista	1,395,095	31.8%

9.	Jose P. Bengzon	Liberal	1,277,925	29.1%
10.	Pio Pedrosa	Liberal	1,232,791	28.1%
11.	Teodoro Evangelista	Liberal	1,210,815	27.6%
12.	Mariano Jesús Cuenco	Liberal	1,205,897	27.5%
13.	Antonio Quirino	Liberal	1,041,539	23.7%
14.	Primitivo Lovina	Liberal	982,601	22.4%
15.	Juan V. Borra	Liberal	869,160	19.8%
16.	Raul Leuterio	Liberal	850,216	19.4%
17.	Josefina Phodaca	National Political Party of Women	431,328	9.8%
18.	Jose T. Nueno	Independent	93,246	2.1%
19.	Leonardo Tenebro	Independent	2,132	0.0%
20.	Cesar Bulacan	Independent	1,371	0.0%
Total turnout			4,391,109	92.4%
Total votes			22,465,664	N/A
Registered voters			4,754,109	100.0%
Note: A total of 20 candidates ran for senator.			Source:[2]

Per party

The seat vacated by Vicente Yap Sotto (Popular Front), who died in 1950, was one of the seats up for election. This also includes the result of the concurrent special election for the seat vacated by Vice President Fernando Lopez in 1949.



Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats
Party		Votes	%	+/–	Up	Before	Won	After	+/−
	Nacionalista Party	13,266,643	58.81	+22.48	1	3	9	11	+8
	Liberal Party	8,764,190	38.85	−13.51	5	18	0	13	−5
	National Political Party of Women	431,328	1.91	New	0	0	0	0	0
	Independent	96,749	0.43	−0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Vacancy					3	3	0	0	−3
Total		22,558,910	100.00	–	9	24	9	24	0

Total votes		4,391,109	–
Registered voters/turnout		4,754,307	92.36
Source: Dieter Nohlen; Florian Grotz; Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos (15 November 2001). Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. ISBN 9780199249596. & Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph.

Vote share

NP			59.05%
LP			39.01%
Others			1.94%

Senate seats

NP			100.0%
LP			0.0%
Others			0.0%

Special election

To serve the unexpired term of Fernando Lopez until December 30, 1953.

Summary of the November 13, 1951 Philippine Senate special election result
Rank	Candidate		Votes	%
1.	Felixberto Verano	Nacionalista	873,457	47.7%
2.	Cornelio Villareal	Liberal	609,303	33.3%
3.	Prospero Sanidad	Liberal (Independent)	223,810	12.2%
4.	Carlos Tan	Liberal (Independent)	124,975	6.8%
Total			1,831,545	100%

References

Philippine Electoral Almanac. The Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office. 2013. p. 28. Archived from the original on 2014-04-09.
Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos Jr. (2001). Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz and Christof Hartmann (ed.). Elections in Asia and the Pacific Vol. II. Oxford University Press. pp. 185–230. ISBN 0-19-924959-8.

External links

Official website of the Commission on Elections

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[1] Philippine Electoral Almanac. The Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office. 2013. p. 28. Archived from the original on 2014-04-09.

[2] Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos Jr. (2001). Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz and Christof Hartmann (ed.). Elections in Asia and the Pacific Vol. II. Oxford University Press. pp. 185–230. ISBN 0-19-924959-8.

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