2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections

The 2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections were held on May 14, 2007, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines to serve in the 14th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2007, until June 30, 2010. The Philippines uses parallel voting for seats in the House of Representatives.

2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections
May 14, 2007
All 270 seats in the House of Representatives
136 seats needed for a majority
Congressional district elections
Party Seats +/–
Lakas 89 −3
KAMPI 44 +42
NPC 28 −25
Liberal 23 −6
Nacionalista 11 +9
LDP 5 −10
PDP–Laban 5 +3
PMP 4 −1
PDSP 3 +2
KBL 1 0
Lingkod Taguig 1 +1
Independent 4 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Party-list election
Party % Seats +/–
Buhay 7.30 3 +1
Bayan Muna 6.11 3 0
CIBAC 4.72 2 0
Gabriela 3.88 2 0
APEC 3.87 2 −1
A TEACHER 3.06 2 +2
Akbayan 2.91 2 −1
Alagad 2.64 2 +1
Coop-NATCCO 2.56 2 +1
Butil 2.55 2 0
ARC 2.34 2 +2
Anakpawis 2.31 2 0
Anak Mindanao 2.17 2 +1
Abono 2.12 2 +2
YACAP 2.07 2 +2
AGAP 2.05 2 +2
An Waray 2.01 1 0
FPJPM 1.88 1 +1
UMAD 1.57 1 +1
ABS 1.47 1 +1
ALIF 1.43 1 0
KAKUSA 1.43 1 +1
Kabataan 1.43 1 +1
ABA-AKO 1.37 1 +1
Senior Citizens 1.33 1 +1
Aangat Tayo 1.25 1 +1
VFP 1.23 1 0
ANAD 1.18 1 0
BANAT 1.10 1 +1
Kasangga 1.06 1 +1
Marcos Loyalist 1.06 1 +1
Abakada Guro 1.04 1 +1
1-UTAK 1.03 1 +1
TUCP 1.02 1 +1
COCOFED 0.97 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker before Speaker after
Jose de Venecia Jr.
Lakas		 Jose de Venecia Jr.
Lakas

In district elections, 219 single-member constituencies elect one member of the House of Representatives. The candidate with the highest number of votes wins that district's seat. In the party-list election, the parties with at least 2% of the national vote were elected, and 21 representatives were elected However, later in 2007 the Supreme Court ruled in Banat vs. COMELEC that the 2% quota was unconstitutional, and that the sectoral representatives should comprise exactly 20% of the House. This led to the increase in the number of sectoral representatives to 51.

The administration-led TEAM Unity maintained control of the House of Representatives although the opposition-backed Genuine Opposition won control of the Senate. Incumbent Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. of Pangasinan was elected Speaker after being the only one nominated: 186 voted for De Venecia, 1 against (Eduardo Joson) and 24 abstentions.

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