Local elections were held in

Baguio Baguio ( , ), officially the City of Baguio ( ilo, Siudad ti Baguio; fil, Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is known as the "Summer Capital of the Philippines", ...

on Monday, May 13, 2019, as a part of the

2019 Philippine general election The 2019 Philippine general election was conducted on May 13, 2019. A midterm election, those elected therein will take office on June 30, 2019, midway through the term of President Rodrigo Duterte. The following positions were contested: *1 ...

. Voters elected candidates for the local elective posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, the congressman, and the twelve councilors Retired police general Benjamin Magalong won the mayoralty race, beating outgoing vice mayor Edison Bilog, while outgoing mayor Mauricio Domogan lost to incumbent representative Mark Go, marking the first defeat in his political career. There are a total of 113,899 people who voted out of the 164,125 registered voters.

Mayoral and Vice Mayoral elections

Mayor

Incumbent mayor Mauricio Domogan is ineligible to run for a fourth term. He ran for the lone congressional seat.

Vice Mayor

Incumbent vice mayor Edison Bilog is not term-limited but is running for City Mayor.

District representative

Incumbent Representative Mark Go is running for a second term.

City Council

The 12 of 14 members of the Baguio City Council are elected

at-large At large (''before a noun'': at-large) is a description for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than ...

via

multiple non-transferable vote The multiple non-transferable vote (MNTV) is a group of voting system, in which voters elect several representatives at once, with each voter having more than one vote. MNTV uses multi-member electoral districts or only one district, which conta ...

, where each voter has 12 votes, and can vote up to 12 candidates. The 12 candidates with the highest number of votes are elected. The other 2 members are elected in indirect elections from the results of barangay elections.Here is a list of candidates. , -bgcolor=black , colspan=5,

References

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