Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on April 23, 1946. Held on the same day as the
presidential election
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Elections by country
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The pre ...
, it was held after the
Nacionalista Party
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had split permanently into two factions: the "conservative" faction headed by president
Sergio Osmeña and the "liberal" faction headed by Senate president
Manuel Roxas, which later became the
Liberal Party. Roxas and the Liberals won the elections, leaving the Nacionalistas with the minority in both houses of Congress.
Candidates from the leftist
Democratic Alliance won six seats in the House of Representatives but were not allowed to take their seats on grounds of fraud and violent campaign tactics during the election.
Five of them were later restored their seats but only after a constitution amendment concerning parity rights to U.S. citizens was approved. That approval was required by the
Bell Trade Act of the United States Congress and led to the
1947 Philippine Parity Rights plebiscite
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to amend the 1935
Constitution of the Philippines
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.
Results
See also
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2nd Congress of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
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1946
Events January
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History of the Philippines (1898–1946)
1946 elections in the Philippines