Southern Leyte's at-large congressional district refers to the lone congressional district of the Philippines in the province of

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. It was represented in the

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1961 until 2022. Southern Leyte first elected a single representative provincewide

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representative for the 5th Congress of the

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following its creation as a regular province separate from

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 ...

under Republic Act No. 2227 on May 22, 1959. Before 1959, its territory was represented as part of Leyte's at-large,

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and 3rd districts. Between 1978 and 1984, multi-seat regional delegations were formed in lieu of provinces for the

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parliament known as the

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, with Southern Leyte forming part of the ten-seat Region VIII's at-large district. It was restored as a

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in 1984. On February 1, 2019, Republic Act No. 11198 was signed, reapportioning Southern Leyte into two legislative districts. Due to time constraints, election to fill the seats were not fulfilled in the May 2019 election, and lone district had have a holdover position. It was instead administered in

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Representation history

Election results

2016

2013

2010

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