2001 Philippine general election

2001 Philippine general election

← 1998 May 14, 2001 (2001-05-14) 2004 →
Registered36,271,782
Turnout29,474,309
2001 Philippine Senate election

← 1998 May 14, 2001 2004 →

12 (of the 24) seats to the Senate of the Philippines and one mid-term vacancy
13 seats needed for a majority
 
Alliance PPC PnM
Seats won 8 4
Popular vote 123,491,617 95,072,114
Percentage 50.81 39.12

Senate President before election

Aquilino Pimentel Jr.
PDP–Laban

Elected Senate President

Franklin Drilon
Independent

2001 Philippine House of Representatives elections
Philippines
← 1998 May 14, 2001 2004 →

All 261 seats in the House of Representatives (including underhangs)
130 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/–
Lakas

79 −32
NPC

42 +33
LDP

21 +21
Liberal

19 +4
Others

48 +33
Party-list

16 +2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker before Speaker after
Feliciano Belmonte Jr.
Lakas
Jose de Venecia Jr.
Lakas

Legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 14, 2001, independent candidate Noli de Castro, a former television anchor of TV Patrol of ABS-CBN was announced as the topnotcher in the Senate race. This was the first synchronized national and local elections held after the ouster of former president Joseph Estrada in January due to a military-backed civilian uprising (popularly known as EDSA II) with pro-Estrada counter-protests that followed right before Election Day. On February 20, 2007, the Supreme Court of the Philippines ruled that former senator Gregorio Honasan lost in the 2001 Philippine elections and lost to Sen. Ralph Recto but declared constitutional the special election for the remaining three-year term of Teofisto Guingona.