1965 Philippine Senate election

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November 9, 1965

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8 (of the 24) seats in the Senate
13 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ambrosio Padilla	Arturo Tolentino	Lorenzo Tañada
Party	Liberal	Nacionalista	NCP
Seats before	9	10	1
Seats after	12	11	1
Seat change	3	1
Popular vote	23,158,197	21,619,502	3,014,618
Percentage	46.9%	43.8%	6.1%
Swing	2.8%	6.4%	6.1%

Senate President before election

Ferdinand Marcos
Nacionalista

Elected Senate President

Arturo Tolentino
Nacionalista

A senatorial election was held on November 9, 1965 in the Philippines. The Nacionalista Party wrestled back control of the Senate; originally a Liberal, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos defected to the Nacionalistas, became their presidential candidate and won this year's election.

After the election, the Senate emerged with 12 Liberals on one side, and 11 Nacionalistas and 1 Nationalist Citizens' Party caucusing with them on the other.

Retiring incumbents

Nacionalista Party

Fernando Lopez (Nacionalista), ran for vice president and won
Ferdinand Marcos (Nacionalista), ran for president and won

Mid-term vacancies

Mariano Jesús Cuenco (Nacionalista), died on February 25, 1964
Eulogio Rodriguez (Nacionalista), died on December 9, 1964

Other incumbents running elsewhere

These ran in the middle of their Senate terms. For those losing in their respective elections, they can still return to the Senate to serve out their term, while the winners will vacate their Senate seats, then it would have been contested in a special election concurrently with the next general election.

Gerardo Roxas (Liberal), ran for vice president and lost

Results

The Nacionalista Party won five seats, the Liberal Party won two seats, and the Nationalist Citizens' Party (NCP) won one.

NCP's Lorenzo Tañada, and Nacionalistas Alejandro Almendras and Genaro Magsaysay all defended their seats.

Five winners are neophyte senators. These are Dominador Aytona, Eva Estrada Kalaw, and Wenceslao Lagumbay of the Nacionalistas, and Liberals Sergio Osmeña Jr. and Jovito Salonga.

Estanislao Fernandez of the Liberal Party lost his seat.

	1	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Before election		‡	‡^	‡^	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡

Election result	Not up	LP		NCP	NP					Not up
After election		*	+	√	+	*	*	√	√

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Key:

‡ Seats up
+ Gained by a party from another party
√ Held by the incumbent
* Held by the same party with a new senator
^ Vacancy

Per candidate

e • d Summary of the November 9, 1965 Philippine Senate election result
Rank	Candidate		Votes	%
1	Jovito Salonga	Liberal	3,629,834	47.7%
2	Alejandro Almendras	Nacionalista	3,472,689	45.6%
3	Genaro Magsaysay	Nacionalista	3,463,459	45.5%
4	Sergio Osmeña Jr.	Liberal	3,234,966	42.5%
5	Eva Estrada-Kalaw	Nacionalista	3,190,700	41.9%
6	Dominador Aytona	Nacionalista	3,037,666	39.9%
7	Lorenzo Tañada	NCP	3,014,618	39.6%
8	Wenceslao Lagumbay	Nacionalista	2,972,525	39.1%

9	Cesar Climaco	Liberal	2,968,958	39.0%
10	Estanislao Fernandez	Liberal	2,846,320	37.4%
11	Constancio Castañeda	Nacionalista	2,814,032	37.0%
12	Ramon Bagatsing	Liberal	2,774,621	36.5%
13	Bartolome Cabangbang	Nacionalista	2,668,431	35.1%
14	Alejandro Roces	Liberal	2,663,852	35.0%
15	Ramon Diaz	Liberal	2,620,073	34.4%
16	Lucas Paredes	Liberal	2,419,573	31.8%
17	Vicente Araneta	Progressive	500,795	6.6%
18	Amelio Mutuc	Independent	413,074	5.4%
19	Jose Feria	Progressive	335,119	4.4%
20	Benjamin Gaston	Progressive	149,057	2.0%
21	Dionisio Ojeda	Progressive	143,681	1.9%
22	Magdaleno Estrada	New Leaf Party	8,766	0.1%
23	Epifanio Talania	Partido ng Bansa	3,007	0.0%
24	Vicente Baldovino	Partido ng Bansa	1,945	0.0%
25	German Carbonel	Partido ng Bansa	1,830	0.0%
26	Toribia S. Valino	Partido ng Bansa	1,750	0.0%
27	Jose Villavisa	Partido ng Bansa	1,604	0.0%
28	Teodoro Gosuico Sr.	Partido ng Bansa	1,153	0.0%
29	Genovevo Baynosa	New Leaf Party	1,101	0.0%
30	Leoncio Wico Pagdanganan	Partido ng Bansa	113	0.0%
Total turnout			7,610,051	76.4%
Total votes			49,355,332	N/A
Registered voters			9,962,345	100.0%
Note: A total of 30 candidates ran for senator.			Source:^[1]

Per party



Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats
Party		Votes	%	+/–	Up	Before	Won	After	+/−
	Liberal Party	23,158,197	46.92	−2.84	1	9	2	10	+1
	Nacionalista Party	21,619,502	43.80	−6.37	4	10	5	11	+1
	Nationalist Citizens' Party	3,014,618	6.11	New	1	1	1	1	0
	Party for Philippine Progress	1,128,675	2.29	New	0	2	0	2	0
	Partido ng Bansa	11,402	0.02	New	0	0	0	0	0
	New Leaf Party	9,867	0.02	New	0	0	0	0	0
	Independent	413,071	0.84	+0.76	0	0	0	0	0
Vacancy					2	2	0	0	−2
Total		49,355,332	100.00	–	8	24	8	24	0

Total votes		7,610,051	–
Registered voters/turnout		9,962,345	76.39
Source: Dieter Nohlen; Florian Grotz; Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos (15 November 2001). Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. ISBN 9780199249596. & Julio Teehankee. "Electoral Politics in the Philippines" (PDF). quezon.ph.

Vote share

LP			46.92%
NP			43.80%
NCP			6.11%
PPP			2.29%
Others			0.88%

Senate seats

LP			25.00%
NP			62.50%
NCP			12.50%
PPP			0.00%
Others			0.00%

References

^ Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos, Jr. (2001). Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz and Christof Hartmann (ed.). Elections in Asia and the Pacific Vol. II. Oxford University Press. pp. 185–230. ISBN 0199249598.

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