1907 Philippine Assembly elections

The first Philippine Assembly elections were held across the Philippines on July 30, 1907. The Philippine Organic Act of 1902 established a bicameral Philippine Legislature composed of the appointed Philippine Commission as the upper house and the elected Philippine Assembly as the lower house.

1907 Philippine Assembly elections
July 30, 1907
All 80 seats in the Philippine Assembly
41 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Sergio Osmeña Arsenio Cruz Herrera
Party Nacionalista Progresista
Leader's seat Cebu–2nd Rizal–1st (lost)
Seats won 32 + 27 coalition 16
Popular vote 64,281 24,234
Percentage 65.43% 24.67%
Coalitions that won a plurality of votes in each province.
Speaker before election

None (Pedro Paterno served as Malolos Congress President)

 Elected Speaker

Sergio Osmeña
Nacionalista

The first national election for a legislative body in the Philippines, and considered to be a de facto independence referendum, the newly-formed Nacionalista Party, advocating independence, defeated the more established Progresista Party, which were conservative.

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