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{{Short description|Political party in the Philippines}}
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{{Infobox Philippine partylist group
| name                             =APEC
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| colorcode                        = #07015B
| logo                             = APEC Partylist logo.png
| full_name                        = Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives
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| sector                           = [[Electric power industry|Electric power]] [[Cooperative|cooperatives]]
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| colors                           = Navy Blue, Red
| representatives                  = [[Sergio Dagooc]]
| current_congress                 = 19th
| seats                            = {{Composition bar|1|3|hex=#07015B}} (Out of 63 party-list seats)
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The '''Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives''', also known as the '''APEC Partylist''' is a [[party list]] in the [[Philippines]] representing [[Cooperative|cooperatives]] in the [[electricity sector in the Philippines|electricity sector, mainly urban and suburban areas]]. Sunny Rose Madamba, Ernesto Pablo, and Edgar Valdez are the party's three representatives in the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|House of Representatives]]. In the 14 May 2007 [[2007 Philippine general election|election]], the party won 2 seats in the nationwide party-list vote.

==History==
The Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC) was formed for the purpose of joining the [[1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections]], the first ever election where party-list groups were elected to the lower house of the Congress. Five months prior to the election, [[Electric utility|electric]] [[Cooperative|cooperatives]] mostly from [[Mindanao]] hastily formed APEC including its names and nominees.<ref name="stand-up">{{cite news |last1=Torres |first1=Sherie Ann |date=29 March 2010 |title=Will the real party-list group please stand up? |url=https://verafiles.org/articles/will-the-real-party-list-group-please-stand-up |access-date=26 November 2024 |work=Vera Files}}</ref> It is the only organization garner more than 4 percent votes.<ref name="upcas">{{cite journal |last1=Casiple |first1=Ramon |title=The Party-List Path to a Broadened Philippine Democracy |journal=Public Policy |date=January–June 2003 |volume=VII |issue=1 |pages=8, 11 |url=https://cids.up.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-Party-list-Path-to-a-Broadened-Philippine-Democracy-vol.7-no.1-Jan-June-2003-2.pdf |access-date=26 November 2024 |publisher=UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies}}</ref>

This along with the consequential lack of a track record caused APEC's eligibility be questioned before the [[Commission on Elections (Philippines)|Commission on Elections]] (Comelec) which was later won by the group. APEC insisted that it can't be faulted for the Comelec's late issuance of the implementing rules and regulations for Republic Act No. 7941 of the Partylist law.<ref name=stand-up/> The Supreme Court dismissed the disqualification case against APEC in 2002.<ref name="upcas" />

Former APEC representative Edgar Valdez was charged with receiving P57.787 million in kickbacks through bogus foundations formed by [[Janet Lim-Napoles]]. In February 2015, the [[Sandiganbayan]] anti-graft court issued a warrant of arrest against Valdez on plunder charges in connection with the [[pork barrel scam]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cayabyab |first=Marc Jayson |date=2015-02-25 |title=APEC partylist representative in pork scam surrenders |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/675200/apec-partylist-representative-in-pork-scam-surrenders |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Philippine Daily Inquirer |language=en}}</ref>

==Electoral performance==
{|class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
|-
!Election !! Votes !! % !! Seats
|-
|[[1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections|1998]] || 503,487 || 5.50% || {{Composition bar|2|51|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2001 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2001]] || 802,060 || 5.30% || {{Composition bar|2|52|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2004 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2004]] || 934,995  || 7.35% || {{Composition bar|3|52|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2007]] || 619,657 || 3.88% || {{Composition bar|2|53|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2010 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2010]] || 313,359 || 1.04% || {{Composition bar|1|57|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2013 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2013]] || 146,111 || 0.53% || {{Composition bar|0|59|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2016 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2016]] ||style="text-align:center;"| - ||style="text-align:center;"| - || {{Composition bar|0|59|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2019 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2019]] || 479,729 || 1.74% || {{Composition bar|1|61|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2022]]||271,380||0.74%||{{Composition bar|1|63|hex=#07015B}}
|-
|[[2025 Philippine House of Representatives elections|2025]]||310,427||0.74%||{{Composition bar|1|63|hex=#07015B}}
|}

==Representatives to Congress==
{| class="wikitable" width=76%
|-
!width=16%|Period
!width=20%|1st Representative
!width=20%|2nd Representative
!width=20%|3rd Representative
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|<small>[[13th Congress of the Philippines|13th Congress]]</small><br />2004&ndash;2007
|style="text-align:center;"|Sunny Rose Madamba
|style="text-align:center;"|Ernesto Pablo
|style="text-align:center;"|Edgar Valdez
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|<small>[[14th Congress of the Philippines|14th Congress]]</small><br />2007&ndash;2010
|style="text-align:center;"|Ernesto Pablo
|style="text-align:center;"|Edgar Valdez
|{{N/A}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|<small>[[15th Congress of the Philippines|15th Congress]]</small><br />2010&ndash;2013
|style="text-align:center;"|Ponciano Payuyo
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|<small>[[18th Congress of the Philippines|18th Congress]]</small><br />2019&ndash;2022
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Sergio Dagooc]]
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|<small>[[19th Congress of the Philippines|19th Congress]]</small><br />2022&ndash;2025
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Sergio Dagooc]]
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|<small>[[20th Congress of the Philippines|20th Congress]]</small><br />2025&ndash;2028
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Sergio Dagooc]]
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|}

==References==
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{{Philippine political parties}}

[[Category:Party-lists represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines]]
[[Category:Cooperative parties]]
[[Category:Cooperatives in the Philippines]]

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