1949 Philippine Senate election

Philippine Senate elections are held via plurality block voting with staggered elections, with the country as an at-large district. The Senate has 24 seats, of which 8 seats are up every 2 years. The eight seats up were won by the 9th to 16th placed candidates in 1946; each voter has eight votes and can vote up to eight names, of which the eight candidates with the most votes winning the election.

1. Alauya Alonto (Nacionalista)
2. Ramon Diokno (Nacionalista)
3. Prospero Sanidad (Liberal)

1. Fernando Lopez (Liberal), elected as vice president, left office on December 30, 1949

The Liberal Party wing led by President Elpidio Quirino (the "Quirinistas") won all 8 seats, shutting out the wing led by former Senate President Jose Avelino (the "Avelinistas"), and the Nacionalista Party.

Two incumbents, Tomas Cabili and Enrique Magalona of the Quirinistas defended their seats, while four incumbents, Avelinistas Olegario Clarin and Salipada Pendatun, and Alejo Mabanag and Jose O. Vera of the Nacionalistas lost their seats.

Newcomers include Esteban Abada, Teodoro de Vera, Justianiano Montano, Quinttin Paredes, Macario Peralta Jr. and Lorenzo Sumulong, all Quirinistas.

Senator Fernando Lopez ran and won in concurrent vice presidential elections. He left office on December 30, 1949, when his vice presidential term started.

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

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The Liberals originally had 19 seats entering the 2nd Congress, but the election of Senator Fernando Lopez to the vice presidency meant that his seat is vacant until 1951, when it was contested in a special election.

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|source={{cite book |author1=Dieter Nohlen|author2=Florian Grotz|author3=Christof Hartmann|author4=Graham Hassall|author5=Soliman M. Santos |title=
Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific |date=15 November 2001|publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=9780199249596|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YK8SDAAAQBAJ}}
& {{cite web|title=Electoral Politics in the Philippines|author=Julio Teehankee|url=http://www.quezon.ph/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/Electoral%20Politics%20in%20the%20Philippines.pdf|publisher=quezon.ph}}

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1. Olegario Clarin (Liberal–Avelino wing) retired from politics
2. Alejo Mabanag (Nacionalista) ran in 1953 and won
3. Salipada Pendatun (Liberal–Avelino wing) ran in 1953 and lost, ran for House representative from Cotabato in 1957 and won
4. Jose O. Vera (Nacionalista) retired from politics

• Commission on Elections
• 2nd Congress of the Philippines

{{Reflist}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20041205193215/http://www.pangulo.ph/election_results.php The Philippine Presidency Project]
• [http://www.comelec.gov.ph Official website of the Commission on Elections]

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1949

General election