1969 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 1963; each voter has eight votes and can vote up to eight names, of which the eight candidates with the most votes win the election.

There were no retiring incumbents in this election.

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. Genaro Magsasysay (Liberal, elected as a Nacionalista), ran for vice president and lost
2. Sergio Osmeña Jr. (Liberal), ran for president and lost

The Nacionalista Party won six seats, while the Liberal Party won two.

Five incumbents successfully defended their seats. Liberals Ambrosio Padilla and Gerardo Roxas, and Nacionalistas José W. Diokno, Gil Puyat, and Arturo Tolentino.

Mamintal A.J. Tamano and Rene Espina of the Nacionalistas are the neophyte senators elected in this election.

Nacionalista Lorenzo Sumulong returns to the Senate after last serving in 1967.

Three senators lost their reelection bids: Juan Liwag and Tecla San Andres Ziga of the Liberals, and Nacionalistas' Rodolfo Ganzon.

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

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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. Rodolfo Ganzon (Nacionalista), ran for mayor of Iloilo CIty in 1971 and won
2. Juan Liwag (Liberal), ran for delegate at the Constitutional Convention in 1970 and won
3. Tecla San Andres Ziga (Liberal), retired from politics

• Commission on Elections
• 7th 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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Category:1969 elections in the Philippines