1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections

1998 Philippine House of Representatives elections

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All 257 seats in the House of Representatives (including 38 underhang seats) 129 seats needed for a majority
Congressional district elections
All 206 seats from congressional districts
Party Vote % Seats +/– Lakas 49.01 111 +11 LAMMP 26.68 55 +55 Liberal 7.25 15 +10 NPC 4.08 9 −13 Reporma 3.95 4 +4 PROMDI 2.40 4 +4 Aksyon 0.44 1 +1 Ompia 0.19 1 +1 Others 1.42 4 +4 Independent 3.42 2 −5 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Party-list election
All 51 seats under the party-list system
Party Vote % Seats +/– APEC 5.50 2 +2 ABA 3.51 1 +1 Alagad 3.41 1 +1 VFP 3.33 1 +1 PROMDI 2.79 1 +1 AKO BAHAY 2.61 1 +1 SCFO 2.60 1 +1 Abanse! Pinay 2.57 1 +1 Akbayan 2.54 1 +1 Butil 2.36 1 +1 Sanlakas 2.13 1 +1 Coop-NATCCO 2.07 1 +1 COCOFED 2.04 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Speaker before Speaker after Jose de Venecia Jr. Lakas Manny Villar LAMMP

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Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 11, 1998. Held on the same day as the presidential election, the party of the incumbent president, Fidel V. Ramos' Lakas-NUCD-UMDP, won majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.^[1] For the first time since the People Power Revolution, a party won majority of the seats in the House; Lakas had a seat over the majority. This is also the first Philippine elections that included the party-list system.^[2]

However, with Joseph Estrada of the opposition Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino (LAMMP; an electoral alliance between the Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), the NPC and the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP)) winning the presidential election, the majority of the elected Lakas-NUCD-UMDP congressmen switched sides to LAMMP. This led to Manuel Villar, Jr. (formerly of Lakas but became a LAMMP member prior to the election) on being elected as the Speaker of the House.

The elected representatives served in the 11th Congress from 1998 to 2001.