Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 14, 2001. This was the next election succeeding the events of the
2001 EDSA Revolution that deposed
Joseph Estrada
Joseph Ejercito Estrada, (; born Jose Marcelo Ejercito; April 19, 1937), also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino politician and former actor. He served as the 13th president of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, the 9th vice presi ...
from the presidency; his vice president,
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal Arroyo (, born April 5, 1947), often referred to by her initials GMA, is a Filipino academic and politician serving as one of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House Deputy Spe ...
became president, and her party,
Lakas NUCD-UMDP, and by extension the
People Power Coalition (PPC), dominated the midterm elections winning majority of the seats in the Senate and in the House of Representatives.
The elected representatives served in the
12th Congress from 2001 to 2004.
Results
District elections
Party-list election
On Election Day, parties are guaranteed to win at least one seat if they surpass 2% of the national vote, then another seat for every 2% until it reaches the maximum of three seats per party. However, with the
Supreme Court
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decision on ''VFP vs. COMELEC'', the 2% increments was declared unconstitutional. Instead, the party with the most votes gets at least one seat, then another seat for every 2% until it reaches the maximum of three seats. For parties that got 2% of the vote but did not have the most votes, they will automatically have one more seat, then any extra seats will be determined via dividing their votes to the number of votes of the party with the most votes, then the quotient will be multiplied by the number of seats the party with the most votes has. The product, disregarding decimals (it is not rounded), will be the number of seats a party will get.
For example, for the
Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC):
:
Disregarding decimals, APEC won one additional seat aside from one seat they automatically won after surpassing the 2% threshold.
See also
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12th Congress of the Philippines
The 12th Congress of the Philippines (Filipino: ''Ikalabindalawang Kongreso ng Pilipinas''), composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, met from July 23, 2001, until June 4, 2004, during the first three years of Gloria Ma ...
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2001
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Lower house elections in the Philippines
May 2001 events in the Philippines