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Marikina Marikina (), officially the City of Marikina ( fil, Lungsod ng Marikina), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 456,159 people. It is loca ...

on May 13, 2019, as part of the Philippine general election. Held concurrently with the national elections, the electorate voted to elect a mayor, a vice mayor, sixteen

city council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...

members and two district representatives to congress. Those elected took their respective offices on June 30, 2019, for a three-year-long term.

Marcelino Teodoro Marcelino "Marcy" Reyes Teodoro (born August 2, 1970), is a Filipino politician who is the 12th and incumbent Mayor of Marikina. Prior to his election as mayor, Teodoro served as the representative for Marikina's 1st congressional district fro ...

and

Marion Andres Marion Santos Andres (born July 25, 1958) is a Filipino politician and physician who served as vice mayor of Marikina since 2019, a post that he previously held from 2001 to 2010. Prior to his election as vice mayor, he also served as councilor ...

were elected to the mayoralty and vice mayoralty respectively, with the Teodoro being re-elected to his second term and Andres being elected back to the office for a fourth nonconsecutive term. Team MarCy, a coalition between the

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and PDP-Laban won an outright majority in the city council, winning ten seats in the council.

Bayani Fernando Bayani Flores Fernando (born July 25, 1946) is a Filipino politician, businessman and professional mechanical engineer who served as the representative for Marikina's 1st congressional district from 2016 to 2022. Prior to his election to cong ...

and

Stella Quimbo Stella Luz Alabastro Quimbo (' Alabastro; born November 23, 1969) is a Filipino economist, academic, and politician who has served as the representative for Marikina's 2nd congressional district since 2019, as a member of the Liberal Party. She pr ...

were elected to represent the first and second districts in the 18th Congress, with the former being re-elected for his second term and the latter being elected for her first. Both representatives joined the minority bloc.

Background

In the 2016 Elections, Marcelino Teodoro was elected to the mayoralty, defeating then-incumbent mayor Del de Guzman who was first elected in 2010. On the other hand, Jose Fabian Cadiz, De Guzman's vice mayor was re-elected to a third term, defeating former mayor Marion Andres. Teodoro is running for re-election for a second term with Marion Andres once again being his running mate. Incumbent councilor Eva Aguirre-Paz and Vic Tambuli Sambinano are also running for the vice mayoralty, with the latter substituting for Arnolfo Almocera who later opted to run for a seat in the City Council instead. Lorderito Nebres and Richard Estanislao of PDP-Laban ran for the mayoralty and vice mayoralty respectively, but both withdrew their respective candidacies in February.

Electoral system

Local elections are held every three years following 1992, on the second Monday of May coinciding with the elections for the national positions. An individual may only be elected to an office for a maximum of three consecutive terms.

Mayoral election

The incumbent mayor is Marcelino Teodoro, who was elected in

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with 50.17% of the vote. Teodoro was left unopposed when Lorderito Nebres of

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withdrew his candidacy in February, leaving Teodoro running unopposed.

Candidates

( NPC), incumbent mayor of Marikina, former representative from the 1st district.

Withdrew

* Lorderito Nebres ( PDP-Laban)

Results

Vice mayoral election

The incumbent vice mayor is Jose Fabian Cadiz, who was re-elected in

with 54.76% of the vote. Cadiz is term-limited and had briefly sought congressional seat for the First District before eventually withdrawing. Former Vice Mayor

ran as Teodoro's running mate. Andres had previously ran for the post in the last election, being defeated by Cadiz. Incumbent Councilor Eva Aguirre-Paz ran a standalone campaign; while Team ViCe slated Vic Tambuli as their vice mayoral candidate following the withdrawal of Arnolfo Almocera, who would later run for councilor. Richard Estanislao of PDP–Laban withdrew his candidacy in February.

Candidates

( NPC), former vice mayor of Marikina, and former councilor from the 1st District. * Eva Aguirre-Paz (

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), incumbent councilor from the 1st District. * Vic Tambuli Sambinano ( PDDS), former councilor from the 1st District.

Withdrew

* Richard Estanislao (

)

Results

House of Representatives elections

Held concurrently with the local elections, two representatives from the city's congressional districts were elected to represent their respective districts in the House of Representatives. In the 2016 elections,

and

Miro Quimbo Romero Federico Saenz Quimbo (born December 12, 1969), better known as Miro Quimbo, is a Filipino politician who served as the representative for Marikina's 2nd congressional district from 2010 to 2019. Education Quimbo spent the first two years ...

were elected to represent the first and second districts respectively. Fernando is in the majority bloc of the chamber while Quimbo is in the independent minority.

First district

The incumbent representative is

who was elected in 2016 with 54.21% of the vote. Outgoing vice mayor Jose Fabian Cadiz ran a brief campaign for the seat but later opted to withdraw from the race. His name ultimately remained in the ballot come election day.

Candidates

(NPC) incumbent Representative and former mayor of Marikina.

= Withdrew

= * Jose Fabian Cadiz (Liberal), incumbent vice mayor of Marikina.

Results

Second district

The incumbent representative is

who was re-elected in 2016 with 84.68% of the vote. Quimbo is term-limited and is ineligible to run for re-election. The

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slated Miro's wife, Stella, to run in his place. Stella faced a challenge from Eugene de Vera, a former representative for ABS Partylist running as an independent, and independent Mauro Arce.

Candidates

* Mauro Arce (

) * Eugene de Vera (

), former representative for ABS Partylist *

(

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), former commissioner of the

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and wife of

Results

City Council Elections

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As the mayor, vice mayor and the members of the city council are elected on the same ballot, mayoral candidates may present or endorse a slate of city council candidates. These slates usually run with their respective mayoral and vice mayoral candidates along with the other members of their slate. A group of candidates independent of any mayoral or vice mayoral candidate may also form a slate consisting of themselves.

Team MarCy

Apat na Tapat

Team VICe

Results

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2nd District

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Aftermath

Eugene de Vera filed a quo warranto petition against

, who was elected as the representative for the second district. De Vera claimed that Quimbo was ineligible for the position, citing Section 8 of Republic Act No. 10667 or the Philippine Competition Act, which prohibited former commissioners of the

to run for public office during their tenure and the two-year period following their exit from the office. De Vera also claimed that Quimbo did not disclose her former commissionership by stating that she was a teacher in her certificate of candidacy. Beng Sardillo, Quimbo's legal counsel, had derided as de Vera's interpretation of the act as "patently self-serving, erroneous, and has no legal basis".

References

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