Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on November 8, 1949. Held on the same day as the
presidential election
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Elections by country
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, the party of the incumbent president,
Elpidio Quirino
Elpidio Rivera Quirino (; November 16, 1890 – February 29, 1956) was a Philippine nationality law, Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 6th President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953.
A lawyer by profession, Quirino entered p ...
's
Liberal Party
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, won a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.
This will be the first time in what would be a pattern in which the party of the incumbent president wins the elections for the members of the House of Representatives.
The elected representatives served in the
2nd Congress from 1949 to 1953.
Electoral system
The House of Representatives has at most 120 seats, 100 seats for this election, all voted via
first-past-the-post
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in
single-member districts
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. Each
province
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is guaranteed at least one
congressional district
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, with more populous provinces divided into two or more districts.
Congress has the power of
redistricting
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three years after each
census
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.
Results
Note
:A. The combined number of seats of the
Liberal Party
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before it was divided into two factions.
See also
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2nd Congress of the Philippines
The 2nd Congress of the Philippines (), composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, met from December 30, 1949, until December 8, 1953, during the second term of President Elpidio Quirino.
Sessions
*First Special Session: ...
References
Bibliography
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1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025
* January 2 – Luis ...
1949 elections in the Philippines