Batangas's 1st congressional district

Batangas's 1st congressional district
Constituency
for the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Map
Map
Boundary of Batangas's 1st congressional district.
Location of Batangas within the Philippines
ProvinceBatangas
RegionCalabarzon
Population635,962 (2020)[1]
Electorate393,786 (2022)[2]
Major settlements
Area924.83 km2 (357.08 sq mi)
Current constituency
Created1907
RepresentativeEric Buhain
Political party  Nacionalista
Congressional blocMajority

Batangas's 1st congressional district is one of the six congressional districts of the Philippines in the province of Batangas. It has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1916 and earlier in the Philippine Assembly from 1907 to 1916.[3] The district consists of the western Batangas municipalities of Balayan, Calatagan, Lemery, Lian, Nasugbu, Taal and Tuy and the component city of Calaca. It is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Eric Buhain of the Nacionalista Party (NP).[4]

Prior to its second dissolution in 1972, the first district encompassed the western Batangas municipalities of Agoncillo, Balayan, Calaca, Calatagan, Lemery, Lian, Nasugbu, San Luis, San Nicolas, Santa Teresita, Taal, and Tuy.[5] Tanauan was also a part of the district until it was reapportioned to the third district in 1928.[6] Following the restoration of the Congress in 1987, it was reduced to eight municipalities that currently remain within its jurisdiction, while four other municipalities were reapportioned to the second and third districts, respectively.[7][8]

  1. ^ "TABLE 1. Population of legislative districts by Region, Province, and selected Highly Urbanized/Component City : 2020" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  2. ^ "Number and Turn-Out of Registered Voters and Voters Who Actually Voted by City/Municipality May 9, 2022 National and Local Elections". Commission on Elections. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  3. ^ "Roster of Philippine legislators". House of Representatives of the Philippines. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  4. ^ "House Members". House of Representatives of the Philippines. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference electionlaw was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Act No. 3378 (December 2, 1927), An Act Reorganizing the Representative Election Districts in the Province of Batangas, Senate of the Philippines Legislative Digital Resources, retrieved November 11, 2023
  7. ^ "The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines". Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  8. ^ "THE 1987 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES – ORDINANCE". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Retrieved August 18, 2023.