Philippine House of Representatives election, 2016 (party-list)

Elections were held for seats reserved for the party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines on May 9, 2016. At most 20% of the seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines are reserved for party-list representatives. The election was via the party-list system, with a 2% "soft" election threshold via the Hare quota, except that no party can win more than 3 seats, and if the seats won do not reach the 20% of the seats of the entire House of Representatives, the parties that have yet to win seats will get a seat each until the 20% reserved for party-lists have been filled up.

As a result of the creation of new legislative districts during the 16th Congress, the number of party-list seats available for the 2016 elections was increased by one.

Raffle

On December 14, 2015, the commission raffled the parties on the order that they will appear on the ballot, as was done in the 2013 elections. This is to avoid parties using numbers or the letter "A" or the number "1" as the first letter of their party to be seen first by the voter. Only the order in which the parties would be listed was determined; the respective numbers would be determined after petitions for disqualification of certain parties were dealt with.^[1]

Nominees

The COMELEC released the list of nominees of every party that appears on the ballot.

Results

 Summary of the May 9, 2016 Philippine House of Representatives election results for party-list representatives

Party	Popular vote			Seats
	Total	%	Swing	Up	Won	+/−
Ako Bicol	1,664,975	5.14%	2.38%	2	3	1
GABRIELA	1,367,795	4.22%	1.64%	2	2
1-PACMAN	1,310,197	4.05%	4.05%	0	2	2
ACT Teachers	1,180,752	3.65%	2.00%	1	2	1
Senior Citizens	988,876	3.05%	0.60%	2	2
Kabayan	840,393	2.60%	2.60%	0	2	2
AGRI	833,821	2.58%	1.25%	1	2	1
PBA	780,309	2.41%	1.64%	0	2	2
Buhay	760,912	2.35%	2.25%	3	2	1
Abono	732,060	2.26%	0.52%	2	2
AMIN	706,689	2.18%	0.80%	1	2	1
Coop-NATCCO	671,699	2.07%	0.25%	2	2
Akbayan	608,449	1.88%	1.12%	2	1	1
Bayan Muna	606,566	1.87%	1.58%	2	1	1
AGAP	593,748	1.83%	0.31%	2	1	1
An Waray	590,895	1.82%	0.13%	2	1	1
CIBAC	555,760	1.72%	0.40%	2	1	1
AAMBIS-Owa	495,483	1.53%	0.40%	1	1
Kalinga	494,725	1.53%	0.18%	1	1
A TEACHER	475,488	1.47%	2.31%	2	1	1
YACAP	471,173	1.46%	0.13%	1	1
DIWA	467,794	1.44%	0.21%	1	1
TUCP	467,275	1.44%	0.11%	1	1
Abang Lingkod	466,701	1.44%	0.50%	1	1
LPGMA	466,103	1.44%	0.10%	1	1
Alona	434,856	1.34%	1.34%	0	1	1
1-SAGIP	397,064	1.23%	0.18%	1	1
Butil	395,011	1.22%	0.37%	1	1
ACTS-OFW	374,601	1.16%	1.16%	0	1	1
Anakpawis	367,376	1.13%	0.03%	1	1
Ang Kabuhayan	348,533	1.08%	1.08%	0	1	1
ANGKLA	337,245	1.04%	0.26%	1	1
Mata	331,285	1.02%	0.14%	0	1	1
1-CARE	329,627	1.02%	2.37%	2	1	1
ANAC-IP	318,257	0.98%	0.11%	1	1
ABS	301,457	0.93%	0.37%	1	1
Kabataan	300,420	0.93%	0.31%	1	1
BH	299,381	0.92%	0.24%	0	1	1
AASENSO	294,281	0.91%	0.67%	0	1	1
SBP	280,465	0.87%	0.87%	0	1	1
Magdalo	279,356	0.86%	1.19%	2	1	1
1-ang Edukasyon	278,393	0.86%	0.86%	0	1	1
Manila Teachers	268,613	0.83%	0.83%	0	1	1
Kusug Tausug	247,487	0.76%	0.76%	0	1	1
Aangat Tayo	243,266	0.75%	0.00%	0	1	1
Agbiag!	240,723	0.74%	0.13%	1	1
Ating Guro	237,566	0.73%	0.04%	0	0
ADDA	226,751	0.70%	0.70%	0	0
A.I.	223,880	0.69%	0.69%	0	0
All-Fish	220,599	0.68%	0.68%	0	0
Append	219,218	0.68%	0.18%	1	0	1
Ang Nars	218,593	0.68%	0.21%	1	0	1
ABAKADA	216,405	0.67%	0.22%	1	0	1
CONSLA	213,814	0.66%	0.66%	0	0
Tingog Sinirangan	210,552	0.65%	0.65%	0	0
ABAMIN	209,276	0.65%	1.04%	1	0	1
OFW Family	203,767	0.63%	2.09%	2	0	2
Anakalusugan	191,362	0.59%	0.59%	0	0
Alay Buhay	186,712	0.58%	0.57%	1	0	1
Abante Retirees	166,138	0.51%	0.07%	0	0
AAB	162,547	0.50%	0.50%	0	0
AVE	157,792	0.49%	0.49%	1	0	1
RAM	153,743	0.47%	0.47%	0	0
KGB	148,869	0.46%	0.46%	0	0
AGHAM	140,661	0.43%	0.04%	0	0
AWAT Mindanao	138,040	0.43%	0.28%	0	0
Tama	136,555	0.42%	0.42%	0	0
Asean, Inc.	125,069	0.39%	0.39%	0	0
Amepa Ofw	121,086	0.37%	0.37%	0	0
ATING Koop	120,361	0.37%	0.60%	1	0	1
Ang Kasangga	120,042	0.37%	0.36%	0	0
UMALAB KA	118,149	0.36%	0.20%	0	0
Disabled/PWD	118,043	0.36%	0.36%	0	0
Global	117,552	0.36%	0.36%	0	0
ALE	112,052	0.35%	0.21%	0	0
Cancer	109,965	0.34%	0.34%	0	0
ACT-CIS	109,300	0.34%	1.03%	1	0	1
AMA	102,583	0.32%	0.57%	1	0	1
Marino	102,430	0.32%	0.32%	0	0
1-PABAHAY	100,746	0.31%	0.11%	0	0
Metro	94,515	0.29%	0.29%	0	0
PISTON	89,384	0.28%	0.36%	0	0
Sanlakas	87,351	0.27%	0.04%	0	0
TGP	87,009	0.27%	0.27%	0	0
KAP/KAKASA-KA	79,178	0.24%	0.24%	0	0
Migrante	76,523	0.24%	0.05%	0	0
Amor-seaman	68,226	0.21%	0.21%	0	0
1-AALALAY	65,459	0.20%	0.39%	0	0
Sinag	61,393	0.19%	0.19%	0	0
Akin	56,809	0.18%	0.18%	0	0
1-AHAPO	54,550	0.17%	0.17%	0	0
Ang Prolife	53,078	0.16%	0.31%	0	0
Samako	52,251	0.16%	0.16%	0	0
Tricap	50,401	0.16%	0.16%	0	0
Unido	49,742	0.15%	0.15%	0	0
Clase	49,212	0.15%	0.15%	0	0
Tinderong Pinoy	46,942	0.14%	0.14%	0	0
Pbb	46,853	0.14%	0.14%	0	0
Kamais Pilipinas	46,521	0.14%	0.14%	0	0
1-GB	46,182	0.14%	0.14%	0	0
KMM	42,935	0.13%	0.13%	0	0
PM	42,742	0.13%	0.13%	0	0
KM Ngayon Na	39,777	0.12%	0.12%	0	0
FICTAP	36,619	0.11%	0.11%	0	0
ACP	35,270	0.11%	0.11%	0	0
Banat	31,185	0.10%	0.10%	0	0
A Tambay	30,147	0.09%	0.09%	0	0
Awake	28,727	0.09%	0.09%	0	0
Nactodap	24,407	0.08%	0.08%	0	0
Anupa	18,793	0.06%	0.06%	0	0
Melchora	17,040	0.05%	0.05%	0	0
1-ABILIDAD	16,805	0.05%	0.02%	0	0
MTM PHILS	9,200	0.03%	0.12%	0	0
CWS	9,121	0.03%	0.03%	0	0
Dumper PTDA	6,941	0.02%	0.02%	0	0
Total	32,377,841	100.00%	N/A	58	59	1
Valid votes	32,377,841	71.98%	3.15%
Invalid votes	12,601,310	28.02%	3.15%
Total turnout	44,980,362*	80.70%	4.93%
Registered voters	55,739,911	100.00%	5.21%

*1,211 votes are unaccounted for.

Aftermath

The proclamation of the winners for the party-list election was done on May 19, ten days after election day. Several party-list groups noted certain discrepancies which could affect the distribution of the seats for the party-lists. One of them is Gabriela, which stated that the computation for the total number of seats assigned for party-list was erroneous. In the motion they filed before the Supreme Court, they stated that since 20% of the district representative seats (238) is equal to 59.5, the correct seat total should be 60, not 59. This would allow the Gabriela party-list to gain one seat based on the computation done by the COMELEC.^[2]

Another party-list, Ating Guro, noted that there was an error on the computation made by COMELEC in proclaiming the winners of the party-list election. They said that Coop-NATCCO, based on its total number of votes, was entitled to only one seat, but instead COMELEC proclaimed two representatives from the party. Ating Guro claimed that the seat gained by COOP-NATCCO should have been theirs. They filed a petition before the COMELEC on May 23.^[3]

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