1941 Philippine Senate election

1941 Philippine Senate election

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All 24 seats in the Philippine Senate 13 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Manuel Roxas Vicente Sotto Party Nacionalista Popular Front Seats won 24 0 Seat change 24 0
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Elected Senate President Manuel Roxas Nacionalista

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Election to the Senate were held on November 11, 1941 in the Philippines. The Senate was re-instituted after amendments to the constitution restored the bicameral legislature last used in 1935.

The elected senators would start to serve only in 1945 as they were not able to take office on December 30, 1941 as Imperial Japan invaded the country on December 8, 1941 at the onset of World War II.

The electorate voted with plurality block voting for the first time for the Senate; the voters have the option of writing the party name on the ballot and all 24 candidates from the party receive votes; another option is by voting individually for each candidate. Also, the former senatorial districts were not used; instead voting was done nationwide as one at-large district. The succeeding Senate elections would be held every two years, with eight seats to be disputed in every election.^[1][2]

The next election was to be on 1943, but due to the intervention of World War II, no elections were until 1946, where the seats supposedly up in 1943 and 1945 were disputed. The winners of the 1941 election were not seated until 1945. In the intervening years, the Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, put up a unicameral National Assembly.

These were the following tickets:

While the tally of votes have been lost in history, some sources tell where each candidate finished in the tally. Claro M. Recto finished first,^[3] while Mariano Jesus Cuenco finished fifth, and Vicente Rama finished 16th.^[4]

Not all candidates of the same party finished with the same number of votes, as some voted individually per candidate, instead of just writing the party name, and some didn't complete the 24 names if they did choose to vote individually per candidate.

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Nacionalista Party	23,385,017	79.99	24
	Popular Front (Sumulong wing)	2,888,103	9.88	0
	Popular Front (Abad Santos wing)	1,581,896	5.41	0
	Ganap Party	1,053,431	3.60	0
	Modernist Party	207,869	0.71	0
	Independent	118,804	0.41	0
Total		29,235,120	100.00	24
Source: Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph. (Seat totals)

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