2004 Philippine general election

2004 Philippine general election

← 2001 May 10, 2004 2007 →
Registered43,895,324
Turnout33,510,092
2004 Philippine presidential election

← 1998 May 10, 2004 2010 →
Turnout76.3% Decrease 10.2%
 
Nominee Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Fernando Poe Jr. Panfilo Lacson
Party Lakas KNP LDP (Aquino wing)
Running mate Noli de Castro Loren Legarda N/A
Popular vote 12,905,808 11,782,232 3,510,080
Percentage 39.99% 36.51% 10.88%

President before election

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Lakas

Elected President

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Lakas

2004 Philippine vice presidential election

← 1998 May 10, 2004 2004 →
 
Candidate Noli de Castro Loren Legarda
Party Independent KNP
Popular vote 15,100,431 14,218,709
Percentage 49.80% 46.89%

Vice President before election

Teofisto Guingona Jr.
Independent

Elected Vice President

Noli de Castro
Independent

2004 Philippine Senate election

← 2001 May 10, 2004 2007 →

12 (of the 24) seats in the Senate
13 seats needed for a majority
 
Alliance K4 KNP
Seats won 7 5
Popular vote 132,793,971 95,953,367
Percentage 52.24 37.74

Senate President before election

Franklin Drilon
Liberal

Elected Senate President

Franklin Drilon
Liberal

2004 Philippine House of Representatives elections
Philippines
← 2001 May 10, 2004 2007 →

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

92 +13
NPC

53 +11
Liberal

29 +10
LDP

15 −6
Others

20 −1
Party-list

28 +12
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker before Speaker after
Jose de Venecia Jr.
Lakas
Jose de Venecia Jr.
Lakas

Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 10, 2004. In the presidential election, incumbent president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo won a full six-year term as president, with a margin of just over one million votes over her leading opponent, highly popular movie actor Fernando Poe Jr.

The elections were notable for several reasons. This election first saw the implementation of the Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003 (see Wikisource), which enabled Filipinos in over 70 countries to vote. This is also the first election since the 1986 People Power Revolution where an incumbent president ran in the presidential election. Under the 1987 Constitution, an elected president cannot run for another term. However, Arroyo was not elected president, but instead succeeded ousted President Joseph Estrada, who was earlier impeached with charges of plunder and corruption in 2000 and later convicted on the plunder charge but received conditional pardon from Arroyo.

Moreover, this was the first time since 1986 that both the winning president and vice president were under the same party/coalition. This election was also held at a period in modern Philippines marked by serious political polarization. This resulted in lesser candidates for the presidential and vice presidential elections compared to the 1992 and 1998 elections.