COMELEC PROCLAIMS 52 PARTY-LIST WINNERS, DEFERS 2 OTHERS

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday proclaimed 52 winning party-lists in the 2025 midterm elections while deferring the proclamation of two others due to pending disqualification cases.

A total of 59 allotted seats for party-list groups in the House of Representatives were distributed among the organizations that garnered the required number of votes.

Based on the final National Canvass Report released by the Comelec, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC), the top three groups with the highest number of votes are Akbayan (2,779,621), Duterte Youth (2,338,564), and Tingog (1,822,708). They will be awarded three seats each.

However, the proclamation of Duterte Youth and BH-Bagong Henerasyon (319,603 for one seat) is suspended due to disqualification petitions arising from alleged “grave violations of elections laws.”

4Ps (1,469,571 votes), ACT-CIS (1,239,930) and Ako Bicol (1,073,119 votes) will get two seats each.

Meanwhile, the party-list groups that will get one seat each in the House of Representatives are USWAG-Ilonggo (777,754), Solid North (765,322), Trabaho (709,283), CIBAC (593,911), Malasakit@bayanihan (580,100), Senior Citizen (577,753), PPP (575,762), ML (547,949), FPJ Panday Bayanihan (538,003), United Senior Citizens (533,913), 4K (521,592), LPGMA (517,833), COOP-NATCCO (509,913), Ako Bisaya (477,796), CWS (477,517), Pinoy Workers (475,985), AGAP (489,412), Asenso Pinoy (423,133), Agimat (420, 813) and TGP (407,922).

Also entitled to one seat each are Sagip (405,297), Alona (393,684), 1-Rider Partylist (385,700), Kamanggagawa (382,657), GP (Galing sa Puso) (381,880), Kamalayan (381,437), Bicol Saro (366, 177), Kasug Tausug (365,916), ACT-Teachers (353,631), One Coop (334,098), KM Ngayon Na (324,405), Abamin (320,349), TUCP (314,814), Kabataan (312,344), APEC (310,427), Magbubukid (310,289), 1Tahanan (309,761), Ako Ilocano Ako (301,406), Manila Teachers (301,291), Nanay (293,430), Kapuso PM (293,146), SSS-GSIS Pensyonado (290,359), Dumper PTDA (279,532), Abang Lingkod (274,735), Pusong Pinoy (266,623), Swerte (261,379) and PHILRECA (261, 045).

The party-list system was created to give marginalized sectors representation in Congress, complementing the existing district representatives. Party-lists are allotted 20% of the 316 seats at the House of Representatives.

Groups that secure 2% of votes cast are automatically granted one seat and may have up to a maximum of three seats.

Members of the House serve three-year terms, with a limit of three consecutive terms.

The newly-elected party-list and district representatives, along with the 12 senators-elect, are set to take their oaths and begin their terms in the 20th Congress on June 30.