Leyte's at-large congressional district was the provincewide electoral district for Philippine national legislatures in both the undivided province of Leyte before its 1959 division and the northern three-fourths that retained its name from 1984 to 1986.[1]
Leyte first elected its representatives at-large in the 1943 Philippine legislative election for a seat in the National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic.[2] Before 1943, the undivided island province which also included Biliran was represented in the national legislatures through its first, second, third, fourth and fifth districts. The undivided province was also earlier represented in the Malolos Congress of the First Philippine Republic in 1898 by appointed delegates from Luzon.[3]
The five districts were restored in Leyte ahead of the 1941 Philippine House of Representatives elections whose elected representatives only began to serve following the dissolution of the Second Republic and the restoration of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1945. An at-large district would not be used in the province until the 1984 Philippine parliamentary election for five seats in the Batasang Pambansa, with a separate representation created for Southern Leyte which it had been entitled to since the 1959 division.[4] It became obsolete following the 1987 reapportionment under a new constitution that restored the five districts in Leyte.[1][5]
Representation history
edit| # | Term of office | National Assembly |
Seat A | Seat B | Seat C | Seat D | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | |||||||||||||||
Leyte's at-large district for the Malolos Congressedit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| District created June 18, 1898.[3][6] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | September 15, 1898 | March 23, 1901 | 1st | Rafael Guerrero | Independent | Appointed. | Lucio Navarro | Independent | Appointed. | Simplicio del Rosario | Independent | Appointed. | Marciano Zamora | Independent | Appointed. | |||||||||||||
| # | Term of office | National Assembly |
Seat A | Seat B | Seats eliminated | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start | End | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | |||||||||||||||||||||
Leyte's at-large district for the National Assembly (Second Philippine Republic)edit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| District re-created September 7, 1943.[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | September 25, 1943 | February 2, 1944 | 1st | José María Veloso | KALIBAPI | Elected in 1943. | Bernardo Torres | KALIBAPI | Appointed as an ex officio member. | |||||||||||||||||||
| District dissolved into Leyte's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th districts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # | Term of office | Batasang Pambansa |
Seat A | Seat B | Seat C | Seat D | Seat E | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Start | End | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | ||||||||||||
Leyte's at-large district for the Regular Batasang Pambansaedit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| District re-created February 1, 1984.[7] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | July 23, 1984 | March 25, 1986 | 2nd | Damian V. Aldaba | KBL | Elected in 1984. | Artemio E. Mate | KBL | Elected in 1984. | Emiliano J. Melgazo | KBL | Elected in 1984. | Benjamin Romualdez | KBL | Elected in 1984. Disqualified and remained as Philippine ambassador to the US. | Alberto S. Veloso | KBL | Elected in 1984. | ||||||||||
| District dissolved into Leyte's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th districts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Roster of Philippine legislators". House of Representatives of the Philippines. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ a b "The 1943 Constitution". Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ a b "The Malolos Congress: A Centennial publication on the inauguration of the Philippine Republic (January 23, 1899 - January 3, 1999)". National Historical Commission of the Philippines. 1999. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ "Republic Act No. 2227, (1959-05-22)". Lawyerly. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ "The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines". Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ "Decree of June 18, 1898, establishing the Dictatorial Government" (PDF). Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ "Proclamation No. 2332, s. 1984". Official Gazette (Philippines). February 1984. Retrieved March 13, 2021.