Makati's at-large congressional district may refer to two occasions when a city-wide or provincewide at-large district was used for elections to the

Regular Batasang Pambansa The Regular Batasang Pambansa (English language, English: Regular National Assembly), or the First Batasang Pambansa, was the meeting of the Batasang Pambansa (legislature), Batasang Pambansa from the beginning of its session on July 23, 1984 ...

from

Makati Makati ( ; ), officially the City of Makati (), is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines, known for being one of the leading financial centers in the country. As of 2013, the city has the highest concent ...

in the Philippines. Makati first gained a separate representation in 1984 when it returned one representative to the

. The municipality continued to constitute a separate congressional district under the new constitution proclaimed on February 11, 1987. It was divided into two districts when Makati became a city pursuant to Republic Act No. 7854 and approved by plebiscite on February 4, 1995. Electing separate representatives was later administered in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. Before Makati gained a separate representation, it was a part of Manila's at-large congressional district from 1898 to 1899 (as part of the province of Manila) and from 1943 to 1944 (as part of the

City of Greater Manila Greater Manila, officially the City of Greater Manila and sometimes referred to as the Greater Manila Area (GMA), was a chartered city that existed during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II, from 1942 to 1945. Governed ...

) and

Rizal's 1st congressional district Rizal's 1st congressional district is one of the four congressional districts of the Philippines in the province of Rizal (province), Rizal. It has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1916 and earlier in the ...

from 1907 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1972.

Representation history

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Representation history

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