Biliran's at-large congressional district is the sole

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in the province of

Biliran Biliran, officially the Province of Biliran (Waray language, Waray-Waray: ''Probinsya han Biliran''; ; ), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas Regions of the Philippines, region (Region VIII). Biliran is one of ...

. It was created ahead of the

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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 Leyte ( ) is an island in the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines. It is eighth-largest and sixth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 2,626,970 as of 2020 census. Since the accessibility of land has been ...

since 1959 and was last represented as part of Leyte's 3rd district in the

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from 1987 to 1995 and earlier from 1961 to 1972, the multi-member Region VIII's at-large district in the

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from 1978 to 1984, and the multi-member Leyte's at-large district in the

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from 1984 to 1986. It is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Gerardo Espina Jr. of

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{{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