1965 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 last contested in 1959; 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. Fernando Lopez (Nacionalista), ran for vice president and won
2. Ferdinand Marcos (Nacionalista), ran for president and won

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

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.

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

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.

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

{{Philippine Senate election, 1965}}

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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|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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{{bar percent|LP|{{party color|Liberal Party (Philippines)}}|46.92}}

{{bar percent|NP|{{party color|Nacionalista Party}}|43.80}}

{{bar percent|NCP|{{party color|Nationalist Citizens' Party}}|6.11}}

{{bar percent|PPP|{{party color|Progressive Party (Philippines)}}|2.29}}

{{bar percent|Others|gray|0.88}}

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{{bar percent|LP|{{party color|Liberal Party (Philippines)}}|25.00}}

{{bar percent|NP|{{party color|Nacionalista Party}}|62.50}}

{{bar percent|NCP|{{party color|Nationalist Citizens' Party}}|12.50}}

{{bar percent|PPP|{{party color|Progressive Party (Philippines)}}|0.00}}

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1. Estanislao Fernandez (Liberal), appointed as associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1973, ran for member of parliament from Region IV–A in 1978 and won

• Commission on Elections
• 6th 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]

{{Philippine elections}}

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Category:1965 elections in the Philippines