Maguindanao's at-large congressional district was a short-lived

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that encompassed the formerly undivided province of

Maguindanao Maguindanao (, Maguindanao language, Maguindanaon: ''Prubinsya nu Magindanaw''; Iranun language, Iranun'': Perobinsia a Magindanao''; tl, Lalawigan ng Maguindanao) was a Provinces of the Philippines, province of the Philippines located in the ...

in the Philippines. It was represented in the Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986. Maguindanao was created by the further division of

Cotabato Cotabato or North Cotabato ( hil, Aminhan Cotabato; ceb, Amihanang Cotabato; Maguindanaon: ''Pangutaran Kutawatu'', Jawi: ڤڠوترن كوتاواتو; fil, Hilagang Cotabato), officially the Province of Cotabato, is a landlocked province in ...

into three provinces in 1973 out of thirteen ethnic

-dominated municipalities of the former province. Due to the absence of a legislature since the 1972 imposition of martial law, no electoral district was formed in the new province under its charter. When a national parliament known as the Batasang Pambansa was convened in 1978, Maguindanao and four other provinces in

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were collectively represented by eight delegates who were elected across Region XII. The only time a provincewide

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district was used to elect representatives for Maguindanao was during the

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for two seats in the Regular Batasang Pambansa shared with the chartered city of Cotabato. The district was eliminated following the 1987

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which created two districts in the province of Maguindanao under a new constitution. It briefly resurfaced after the province's

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was carved out to form the short-lived province of

Shariff Kabunsuan Shariff Kabunsuan was a short-lived province of the Philippines within the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) that existed from 2006 to 2008. Its designated seat of government was Datu Odin Sinsuat. Initially comprising ten municipalit ...

in 2006 leaving the 2nd district as the sole constituency in what remained of the province for the

2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections The 2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections were held on May 14, 2007, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines to serve in the 14th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2007, until June 30, 2010. The Ph ...

. A 2008 decision by the

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nullified the new province and Maguindanao reverted to two-district configuration by the

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Representation history

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Representation history

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