1969 Philippine Senate election
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Electoral system
Philippine Senate elections are held via plurality block voting with staggered elections, with the country as an at-large district. The Senate has 24 seats, of which 8 seats are up every 2 years. The eight seats up were last contested in 1963; each voter has eight votes and can vote up to eight names, of which the eight candidates with the most votes win the election.
Retiring incumbents
There were no retiring incumbents in this election.
Incumbents running elsewhere
These ran in the middle of their Senate terms. For those losing in their respective elections, they can still return to the Senate to serve out their term, while the winners will vacate their Senate seats, then it would have been contested in a special election concurrently with the next general election.
- Genaro Magsasysay (Liberal, elected as a Nacionalista), ran for vice president and lost
- Sergio Osmeña Jr. (Liberal), ran for president and lost
Results
The Nacionalista Party won six seats, while the Liberal Party won two.
Five incumbents successfully defended their seats. Liberals Ambrosio Padilla and Gerardo Roxas, and Nacionalistas José W. Diokno, Gil Puyat, and Arturo Tolentino.
Mamintal A.J. Tamano and Rene Espina of the Nacionalistas are the neophyte senators elected in this election.
Nacionalista Lorenzo Sumulong returns to the Senate after last serving in 1967.
Three senators lost their reelection bids: Juan Liwag and Tecla San Andres Ziga of the Liberals, and Nacionalistas' Rodolfo Ganzon.
Key:
- ‡ Seats up
- + Gained by a party from another party
- √ Held by the incumbent
- * Held by the same party with a new senator
Per candidate
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Per party
Defeated incumbents
- Rodolfo Ganzon (Nacionalista), ran for mayor of Iloilo CIty in 1971 and won
- Juan Liwag (Liberal), ran for delegate at the Constitutional Convention in 1970 and won
- Tecla San Andres Ziga (Liberal), retired from politics
See also
References
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