Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 8, 1995. Being the first midterm election since 1938, the party of the incumbent president,

Fidel V. Ramos Fidel Valdez Ramos (, ; March 18, 1928 – July 31, 2022), popularly known as FVR and Eddie Ramos, was a Filipino general and politician who served as the 12th president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. He was the only career military ...

's Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, won a plurality of the seats in the House of Representatives. The elected representatives served in the 10th Congress from 1995 to 1998. Jose de Venecia, Jr. was easily reelected as the speaker of the House.

Results

The administration party, Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, forged an electoral agreement with Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino to create the

Lakas-Laban Coalition The Lakas-Laban Coalition was the multi-party electoral alliance supported by the administration of President Fidel V. Ramos for the May 8, 1995 Philippine midterm legislative and local elections. It was a coalition of two major parties in the P ...

. Candidates from the

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and

PDP–Laban Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (), abbreviated as PDP–Laban, is a democratic socialist political party in the Philippines founded in 1982. It was part of the country's ruling party alliance from 1986 to 1992 under the administrat ...

also joined the administration coalition. On the other hand, Nationalist People's Coalition led the opposition coalition that also composed of candidates from Kilusang Bagong Lipunan,

People's Reform Party The People's Reform Party ( abbrev. PRP) is a political party in the Philippines. Founded on April 12, 1991, as the political party of former Agrarian Reform Secretary Miriam Defensor Santiago for her bid as president in the 1992 Presidential ...

and

Partido ng Masang Pilipino The Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (), formerly ''Partido ng Masang Pilipino'' (), is a populist political party in the Philippines. It is the political party of former Philippine President Joseph E. Estrada. In the May 1998 presidential election, ...

Per coalition

Definitions: *Administration coalition: Ran solely under the banner of one of the following: Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino,

, and

*Opposition coalition: Ran solely under the banner of one of the following: Nationalist People's Coalition, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan,

, and

*Others: Ran solely on other parties and coalitions not mentioned above *Hybrid coalitions: Ran on any combinations of parties and coalitions mentioned above

Per party

References

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1995 elections in the Philippines

Results

Per coalition

Per party

See also

References