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Quezon City Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 2,960,048 people. It was foun ...

on May 9, 2022, as part of the Philippine general election. Held concurrently with the national elections, the electorate voted to elect a mayor, a vice mayor, thirty-six

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members and six district representatives to congress. Those elected took their respective offices on June 30, 2022, for a three-year-long term. 1,138,511 of 1,403,895 registered voters voted in this election.

Joy Belmonte Joy Belmonte (born Maria Josefina Tanya Go Belmonte; March 15, 1970) is a Filipina politician who has served as the 11th mayor of Quezon City since 2019. A member of the local Serbisyo sa Bayan Party, Belmonte previously served as the vice ...

and

Gian Sotto Gian Carlo Gamboa Sotto (; born March 18, 1978) is a Filipino actor and politician who has served as the 18th vice mayor of Quezon City since 2019, under the mayoralty of Joy Belmonte. A member of the local Serbisyo sa Bayan Party, Sotto p ...

were re-elected to the mayoralty and vice mayoralty respectively. The Serbisyo sa Bayan Party with its coalition with PDP-Laban and the

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won a combined 28 seats in the city council, effectively securing the coalition an outright majority in the legislative body. Meanwhile, the UniTeam backed opposition coalition, Malayang Quezon City won 6 seats in the city council.

Arjo Atayde Juan Carlos "Arjo" Campo Atayde (born November 5, 1990) is a Filipino actor and politician who has served as the representative for Quezon City's 1st district since 2022. He is best known for his appearances on drama series aired on ABS-CBN, ...

, Raffy Tulfo Jr.,

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, Marvin Rillo, PM Vargas and Marivic Co-Pilar were elected to represent the city's

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, second,

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, fourth, fifth and sixth legislative districts respectively in the 19th Congress.

Background

Incumbent Mayor

is running for her second term against Anakalugusan party-list representative Mike Defensor. Vice Mayor

is running for his second term against incumbent second district Councilor Winnie Castelo. In the congressional race, four incumbent representatives, Anthony Peter Crisologo, Precious Hipolito-Castelo, Allan Benedict Reyes and Bong Suntay are running for reelection in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th districts respectively. 5th District Representative

Alfred Vargas Alfredo Paolo Dumlao Vargas III (born October 24, 1979), professionally known as Alfred Vargas, is a Filipino politician, actor, and model serving as the representative of Quezon City's 5th district since 2013. He previously served as a cit ...

and 6th District Representative Kit Belmonte are term-limited.

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Administration coalition

Primary opposition coalition

Other coalitions

Opinion polling

Mayoral election

The incumbent mayor is

, who was elected in 2019 with 54.09% of the vote. She ran for re-election to a second term under the Serbisyo sa Bayan Party. Belmonte faced a challenge from eight other candidates; including representative Mike Defensor of the Malayang Quezon City coalition. Defensor was endorsed by UniTeam senatorial candidate

Herbert Bautista Herbert Constantine "Bistek" Maclang Bautista (born May 12, 1968) is a Filipino actor and politician who served as mayor of Quezon City, the Philippines' largest city by population, from 2010 to 2019. Bautista has starred in numerous films and T ...

and presidential candidate

Bongbong Marcos Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. ( , , ; born September 13, 1957), commonly referred to by the initials PBBM or BBM, is a Filipino politician who is the 17th and current president of the Philippines. He previously served as a sena ...

Candidates

* Glenda Araneta (Independent) * Ricardo Bello ( PDSP) *

(SBP), Incumbent mayor (2019 - present) * Mike Defensor ( PFP), Representative for Anakalusugan Party-list (2019 - 2022) * Jose Ingles Jr. (WPP) * Rolando Jota (Independent) * Wilhelmina Orozco (Independent) * Tomas Salutan Jr. (Independent) * Diosdado Velasco (Independent)

Results

Belmonte handily defeated Defensor, winning with a greater margin compared with her neophyte campaign.

Vice mayoral election

Incumbent

is running for his second term, facing his distant relative, former 2nd district representative and councilor

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Congressional elections

1st District

Incumbent Anthony Peter "Onyx" Crisologo was defeated by actor

in his reelection bid. The third placer was MSME entrepreneur Marcus Aurelius Dee. Among the three running, Crisologo (has lived in Heroes Hills, Brgy. Santa Cruz his whole life) and Dee of Del Monte are the only natives of District 1.

2nd District

Another Lakas-CMD-affiliated incumbent, Precious Hipolito-Castelo, lost in her reelection bid at the hands of independent Ralph Tulfo, son of broadcaster and

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. Four other independents also ran.

3rd District

Incumbent Allan Benedict Reyes lost his seat to his former ally, incumbent councilor

. The third placer was independent candidate Jessie Dignadice.

4th District

Incumbent Bong Suntay was running for reelection against former councilor Marvin Rillo. Rillo defeated Suntay in a close race with a 1.18% difference of 1,948 votes. It was the only congressional race won by Lakas-CMD in Quezon City in this election. (The former lost its reelection bids in the first two districts, both at the hands of independent candidates.)

5th District

is on his third term as representative and is barred to seek reelection. Instead, he ran for councilor in the same district. His party nominated his brother, incumbent councilor PM Vargas. PM Vargas won the seat against six other candidates, including the second placer, businesswoman Rose Lin; former 2nd District representative Mary Ann Susano; and four independent candidates. Lin was originally nominated by

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but she later resigned from the party on November 19, 2021 after her name was embroiled in the Pharmally Pharmaceutical scandal. (Her husband, Allan Lin Weixiong, was the financial manager of Pharmally.)

6th District

Incumbent Jose Christopher "Kit" Belmonte, a

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member and a close relative of Mayor Joy Belmonte, is on his final term as representative and is barred to seek reelection. Running for the vacant position were former representatives Bingbong Crisologo and Tricia Nicole Velasco-Catera of Ang Mata'y Alagaan (MATA) partylist, and incumbent councilor Marivic Co-Pilar, an ally of Joy Belmonte. Co-Pilar won the election after getting 60% of votes cast.

City council elections