Local elections took place in

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on Monday, May 13, 2019, as part of the

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. Voters elected a mayor, a vice mayor, and a total of 12 councilors - six from each of the city's two districts. The election for the member from the lone legislative district of Pasig to the

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was also held concurrently. The election saw

Vico Sotto Victor Ma. Regis "Vico" Nubla Sotto (; born June 17, 1989) is a Filipino politician serving as the incumbent mayor of Pasig. Sotto first entered politics when he ran for a seat on the Pasig City Council in 2016. He won the election as an indep ...

of the

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party winning the mayoral election against the incumbent Robert Eusebio of the

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, which ended the 27-year rule of the Eusebio family in Pasig. Incumbent vice mayor and Eusebio's running mate Iyo Christian Bernardo was re-elected to a third term as vice mayor unopposed. Candidates for councilor running under Eusebio's ticket called Team Bobby won all of the seats in the City Council.

Background

Robert Eusebio was elected mayor of Pasig in 2016, and was previously mayor for two consecutive terms from 2007 until 2013. He was seeking to be re-elected to a second consecutive term since his election in 2016, which would have been his fourth total term as mayor. Robert Eusebio is part of the Eusebio family who have dominated Pasig politics since 1992. His father Vicente was mayor of Pasig for three consecutive terms from 1992 until 2001 and for another term from 2004 until 2007. His mother Soledad was mayor for from 2001 to 2004, while his wife Maribel was mayor from 2013 to 2016. His brother Ricky was the member from Pasig to the House of Representatives from 2016 until 2019. Vico Sotto was a first-term councilor for Pasig's first district who was elected in his first run for a public office in 2016, which saw him ranking first among 13 candidates in his district. In his term as councilor, Sotto authored City Ordinance No. 37 also known as The Pasig Transparency Mechanism Ordinance, which was signed in September 13, 2018. He also served as the chairman of Pasig’s public relations and information committee during his term as city councilor.

Candidates

Team Bobby

Team Pagbabago

No ticket

* Andy Cheng,

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president in Pasig and candidate for councilor in Pasig's first district. He unsuccessfully ran for councilor in Pasig's first district in 2016 under the

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Opinion polls

Results

Mayor

Vice Mayor

District representative

City Council

By district

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= , -bgcolor=black , colspan=6, Notes * A ^ Incumbent Andy Santiago died on June 14, 2019. His wife, Edith, was named as his substitute, later she took her office on October 16, 2019. * B ^ Incumbent Rodrigo Asilo died on May 27, 2021. His daughter, Syvel, was named as his substitute, later she took her office on January 4, 2022.

References

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