1992 Philippine general election

1992 Philippine general election

← 1987 May 11, 1992 1995 →
Registered32,141,079
Turnout24,254,954
1992 Philippine presidential election

← 1986 May 11, 1992 1998 →
Turnout75.5% Decrease 3.3%
 
Nominee Fidel V. Ramos Miriam Defensor-Santiago Danding Cojuangco
Party Lakas PRP NPC
Running mate Lito Osmeña Ramon Magsaysay Jr. Joseph Estrada
Popular vote 5,342,521 4,468,173 4,116,376
Percentage 23.58% 19.72% 18.17%

President before election

Corazon Aquino
PDP–Laban

Elected President

Fidel V. Ramos
Lakas

1992 Philippine vice presidential election

← 1986 May 11, 1992 1998 →
 
Candidate Joseph Estrada Marcelo Fernan Lito Osmeña
Party NPC LDP Lakas
Popular vote 6,739,738 4,438,494 3,362,467
Percentage 33.01% 21.74% 16.47%

Vice President before election

Salvador Laurel
Nacionalista

Elected Vice President

Joseph Estrada
NPC

1992 Philippine Senate election

← 1987 May 11, 1992 1995 →

All 24 seats in the Senate
13 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Neptali Gonzales Ernesto Maceda Leticia Ramos-Shahani
Party LDP NPC Lakas
Leader's seat Nationwide at-large Nationwide at-large Nationwide at-large
Seats before 10 3 2
Seats after 16 5 2
Seat change Increase 6 Increase 2 Steady
Popular vote 124,399,291 48,956,459 48,658,631
Percentage 45.0 17.7 17.6

Senate President before election

Neptali Gonzales
LDP

Elected Senate President

Neptali Gonzales
LDP

1992 Philippine House of Representatives elections
Philippines
← 1987 May 11, 1992 1995 →

200 (of the 216) seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
109 seats needed for a majority
Party Vote % Seats +/–
LDP

33.73 86 +86
Lakas

21.20 41 +41
NPC

18.66 30 +30
LP–PDP

8.82 11 +11
Nacionalista

3.92 7 +3
KBL

2.35 3 −8
Coalitions/others

6.28 16 −39
Independent

5.04 6 −17
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker before Speaker after
Ramon Mitra Jr.
LDP
Jose de Venecia Jr.
Lakas

Presidential and vice presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 11, 1992. An estimated 80,000 candidates ran for 17,000 posts from the presidency down to municipal councillors in the first general election under the 1987 Constitution. Even though she was permitted by the Constitution to run for a second term, President Corazon Aquino did not stand for re-election.

Retired general Fidel Ramos of Lakas-NUCD won a six-year term as president of the Philippines by a small margin, narrowly defeating populist candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago of the People's Reform Party. Ramos also got the lowest plurality in Philippine electoral history. Santiago led the canvassing of votes for the first five days, but was overtaken by Ramos afterwards. Santiago accused Ramos of fraud and filed an electoral protest citing power outages as evidence, but her protest was eventually dismissed.

The 1992 election was the second time both the president and vice-president came from different parties. Film actor and senator Joseph Estrada won a six-year term as Ramos' vice-president by a landslide victory.

Under the transitory provisions of the Constitution, 24 senators were elected in the polls. The first twelve senators who garnered the highest votes would have a six-year term while the next twelve senators would have a three-year term. Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) got a large share in the Senate race. Television personality and Quezon City Vice-Mayor Vicente Sotto III got the highest number of votes.