1907 Philippine Assembly elections

1907 Philippine Assembly elections

← 1898 July 30, 1907 1909 →
All 80 seats in the Philippine Assembly 41 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Sergio Osmeña Arsenio Cruz Herrera Party Nacionalista Progresista Leader's seat Cebu–2nd Rizal–1st (lost) Seats won 32 + 27 coalition 16 Popular vote 64,281 24,234 Percentage 65.43% 24.67%
Coalitions that won a plurality of votes in each province.
Speaker before election None (Pedro Paterno served as Malolos Congress President) Elected Speaker Sergio Osmeña Nacionalista

The first Philippine Assembly elections were held across the Philippines on July 30, 1907. The Philippine Organic Act of 1902 established a bicameral Philippine Legislature composed of the appointed Philippine Commission as the upper house and the elected Philippine Assembly as the lower house.

The first national election for a legislative body in the Philippines, and considered to be a de facto independence referendum, the newly formed Nacionalista Party, advocating independence, defeated the more established Progresista Party, which were conservative.