BARANGAY AND MUNICIPAL

ELECTIONS
Who are qualified to vote?
You must be a citizen of the Republic of
the Philippines. You are a resident of
the place where you intend to register
for at least six months. you must be at
least 18 years of age on or before
the election date. You have not been
adjudged as mentally incapable by a
court or by competent authority.
Election
Fixed-term elections
National and local elections are held on the second Monday of
May every third year starting 1992. The presidential and vice
presidential elections are held every six years. Election Days in
which the president and vice president and barangay officials are
not elected are called "midterm elections"; Election Days in which
the president and vice president are elected are called
"presidential elections." Barangay-level officials, although are
currently elected in the same year as the other officials, are
elected separately the succeeding months.
From 1949 to 1971, election days are held every second Tuesday
of November of every odd-numbered year with the presidential
and vice presidential election held the every fourth year starting
from 1951.
What is municipal election?
In many parts of the world,
local elections take place to select office-
holders in local government, such as
mayors and councillors. Elections to
positions within a city or town are often
known as "municipal elections". Their form
and conduct vary widely across
jurisdictions.
Local positions
Main article: Local government in the Philippines
Synchronized with the national elections are the
local elections. The voter may vote for any of the
following:
 Provincial-level:
o One governor
o One vice governor
o One to seven Sangguniang
Panlalawigan members (provincial board)
 City- or municipal-level:
oOne mayor
oOne vice mayor
oFour to twelve Sangguniang
Panlungsod/Sangguniang
Bayan members (city or municipal
council, respectively)
If the city the voter is residing in a highly
urbanized city or independent component city, the
voter can not vote for any of the provincial-level
positions.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial
board), Sangguniang Panlungsod (city council)
and Sangguniang Bayan (municipal council)'s
manner of election is identical with that of the
Senate. In some cities and provinces, they are
split into districts (not necessarily the same as the
congressional district) in which separate board
members/council members are elected.
How municipalities of election held?
In many parts of the world,
local elections take place to select office-
holders in local government, such as
mayors and councillors. Elections to
positions within a city or town are often
known as "municipal elections". Their
form and conduct vary widely across
jurisdictions.
How the election municipalities
held?
Members of the Municipal Corporations
are elected by the people directly
through elections. The serving period of
a Municipal Corporation is five years, until
it is dissolved before. ... While the state
governments arrange the elections in
some states, the Executive Officers do the
What do municipalities do?
Municipalities are established to
protect the citizens and provide
residents of a particular area with
urban type services: examples are
water, sewer, police, streets,
transportation, recreation, garbage
collection and recycling, land use
planning and fire protection.
Barangay elections
elections in the Philippines in the barangays or villages,
the smallest government administrative divisions of the
Philippines. Barangays make up Philippine
cities or Philippine municipalities and are in turn made
of up sitios and puroks, whose leaders are not elected.
Voters of each barangay over 18 years old vote for
one Punong Barangay (barangay chairman) and
seven Barangay Kagawad (barangay councilors).
Together, the captain and councilors make up
the Sangguniang Barangay (Barangay Council). Voters
aged 15 to 17 years old vote in elections for
the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK): one SK Chairman and
seven SK councilors during the same election. The
winning SK chairman serves as a member of the
barangay council.
The barangay and SK chairmen are elected via first-
past-the-post voting system, while barangay and SK
councilors are elected via the plurality-at-large
voting system with one barangay as an at-
large "district".
While candidates are nominally nonpartisan and do
not represent political parties, slates consisting of a
candidate for barangay chairman and seven
barangay councilor candidates are not uncommon;
SK slates are also sometimes connected to a slate
of a barangay chairman. Winning candidates serve
for a term of three years, with reelection of up to two
more times. Terms of office for barangay officials are
usually extended when elections are postponed as a
cost-saving measure.
Winning barangay captains in a certain municipality
or city elect amongst themselves an Association of
Barangay Captains (ABC) president that will serve as
their representative in the Sangguniang
Bayan (Municipal Council) or Sangguniang
Panlungsod (City Council). ABC presidents in a
certain province will elect amongst their
representative in the Sangguniang
Panlalawigan (Provincial Board). ABC presidents in
provincial boards and city councils not under a
jurisdiction of a province elect amongst themselves
a national president and other officials of the League
of Barangays of the Philippines.
SK chairmen undergo a similar series
of indirect elections at every level, with the
national federation president sitting as a
member of the National Youth Commission.
History
Since 2007, barangay elections are held every
three years on the fourth Monday in October.
Elections are held simultaneously nationwide
and are supervised by the Commission on
Elections, known more commonly as
the COMELEC.
Barangay-level elections, starting from
2007, are to be held every three years
during the last Monday of October,
although these elections are frequently
postponed (and incumbents' terms are
extended) as a cost-saving measure.
Elections for the positions in
the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM), starting from 2011, are
to be held every three years during the
second Monday of May.
Recent Elections[edit]
 Held on July 15, 2002: 2002 Philippine
barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan
elections
 Held on October 29, 2007 2007
Philippine barangay and Sangguniang
Kabataan elections
 Held on October 25, 2010 2010
Philippine barangay and Sangguniang
Kabataan elections
 Held on October 28, 2013 Philippine
barangay elections, 2013
 Held on May 14, 2018 Philippine
barangay elections, 2018