Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 11, 1998. Held on the same day as the

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, the party of the incumbent president, Fidel V. Ramos' Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, won majority of the seats in the House of Representatives. For the first time since the

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, a party won majority of the seats in the House; Lakas had a seat over the majority. This is also the first Philippine elections that included the party-list system. However, with

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of the opposition

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(LAMMP; an electoral alliance between the

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(PMP), the NPC and the

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(LDP)) winning the presidential election, the majority of the elected Lakas-NUCD-UMDP congressmen switched sides to LAMMP. This led to

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(formerly of Lakas but became a LAMMP member prior to the election) on being elected as the

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. The elected representatives served in the 11th Congress from 1998 to 2001.

Results

District elections

Party-list election

There were 52 seats for sectoral representatives that were contested. Each party has to get 2% of the national vote to win one seat; they would win an additional seat for every 2% of the vote, up to the maximum three seats. Only 14 party-list representatives were elected under this rule, leaving 38 unfilled seats. Eventually, the "2–4–6%" rule was ruled as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on October 6, 2000 on the case ''Veterans Federation Party, et. al. vs. COMELEC''. Despite this ruling, no additional seats were awarded to any party-lists.

References

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1998 elections in the Philippines

Results

District elections

Party-list election

See also

References