Biliran's at-large congressional district is the sole
congressional district of the Philippines in the province of
Biliran. It was created ahead of the
1995 Philippine House of Representatives elections
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's Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, won a plurality of the seats in the Hous ...
following its conversion into a regular province under the 1991 Local Government Code (Republic Act No. 7160) which was ratified in a 1992 plebiscite concurrent with
that year's general election.
Biliran had been a
sub-province of
Leyte since 1959 and was last represented as part of
Leyte's 3rd district in the
House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995 and earlier from 1961 to 1972, the multi-member
Region VIII's at-large district in the
Interim Batasang Pambansa from 1978 to 1984, and the multi-member
Leyte's at-large district in the
Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986.
It is currently represented in the
19th Congress by
Gerardo Espina Jr. of
Lakas–CMD.
Representation history
Election results
2022
2019
2016
2013
2010
See also
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Legislative districts of Biliran
References
{{Philippine congressional districts in Region VIII
Congressional districts of the Philippines
Politics of Biliran
1991 establishments in the Philippines
At-large congressional districts of the Philippines
Congressional districts of Eastern Visayas
Constituencies established in 1991