Catanduanes's at-large congressional district

{{Infobox constituency

|name = Catanduanes's at-large congressional district

|parl_name = House of Representatives of the Philippines

|image =

|caption =

|image2 = Ph locator catanduanes.svg

|caption2 = Location of Catanduanes within the Philippines

|district_label = Province

|district = Catanduanes

|region_label = Region

|region = Bicol Region

|population = 271,879 (2020){{PH census|2020}}

|electorate = 198,872 (2022){{cite web|url=https://comelec.gov.ph/?r=2022NLE/Statistics/2022RVVAVmcocfinal|title=Number and Turn-Out of Registered Voters and Voters Who Actually Voted by City/Municipality May 9, 2022 National and Local Elections|website=Commission on Elections|accessdate=July 12, 2024}}

|area = {{convert|1492.16|sqkm|sqmi|abbr=on}}

|year = 1945 (single-member district)

|members_label = Representative

|members = Leo Rodriguez

|blank1_name = Political party

|blank1_info = {{Color box|{{party color|Partido Federal ng Pilipinas}}|border=darkgray}} PFP

|blank2_name = Congressional bloc

|blank2_info = Majority

}}

Catanduanes's at-large congressional district, also known as Catanduanes's lone district, is the sole congressional district of the Philippines in the province of Catanduanes. Catanduanes has been represented in the country's various national legislatures since 1898.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/TheMalolosCongress/page/n77/mode/1up |title=The Malolos Congress: A Centennial publication on the inauguration of the Philippine Republic (January 23, 1899 - January 3, 1999) |publisher=National Historical Commission of the Philippines |date=1999 |accessdate=February 15, 2021}} Since 1946 when it was reorganized as an independent province separate from Albay, Catanduanes has been entitled to one member in the House of Representatives of the Philippines, elected provincewide at-large, except for the period under the Fourth Philippine Republic between 1978 and 1984 when its representation was absorbed by the regional at-large assembly district of Region V.{{cite web |url=http://www.congress.gov.ph/legislators/?v=province |title=Roster of Philippine legislators |publisher=House of Representatives of the Philippines |accessdate=February 15, 2021 |archive-date=March 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316064243/http://congress.gov.ph/legislators/?v=province |url-status=dead }}

The district is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Leo Rodriguez of the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP).{{cite web|url=http://www.congress.gov.ph/members/ |title=House Members |publisher=House of Representatives of the Philippines |accessdate=February 15, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://comelec.gov.ph/php-tpls-attachments/2025NLE/COC_2025NLE/CLC2025_R5/CATANDUANES_OPES.pdf|title=Certified List of Candidates (PROVINCIAL)|publisher=Commission on Elections|accessdate=January 3, 2025}}

Representation history

{| class=wikitable

! rowspan=2 | #

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! rowspan=2 | National
Assembly

| rowspan=2 |

! colspan=5 | Seat A

| rowspan=2 |

! colspan=5 | Seat B

|- style="height:3em"

!Start!!End

! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | Image

! Member

! Party

! Electoral history

! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | Image

! Member

! Party

! Electoral history

| colspan="16" style="text-align:center;" |

=Catanduanes's at-large district for the [[Malolos Republic|Malolos Congress]]=

| colspan="16" style="text-align:center;" | District created June 18, 1898.

|- style="height:3em"

| style="text-align:center;" | –

| September 15, 1898

| March 23, 1901

| style="text-align:center;" | 1st

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent (politician)}};" |

| 100px

| José Alejandrino

| Independent

| Appointed.

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent (politician)}};" |

| 100px

| Marcelino Santos

| Independent

| Appointed.

! rowspan=2 | #

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! rowspan=2 | Congress

| rowspan=2 |

! colspan=5 | Single seat

| rowspan=59 colspan=6 style="text-align:center;" | Seats eliminated

|- style="height:3em"

!Start!!End

! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | Image

! Member

! Party

! Electoral history

| colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" |

=Catanduanes's at-large district for the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines]]=

| colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" | District re-created September 26, 1945.{{cite web|url=https://thecorpusjuris.com/legislative/commonwealth-acts/ca-no-687.php |title=C.A. No. 687 |date=26 September 1945 |publisher=The Corpus Juris |accessdate=February 15, 2021}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1

| May 25, 1946

| December 30, 1949

| style="text-align:center;" | 1st

| rowspan=7 |

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Nacionalista Party}};" |

| Francisco Perfecto

| Nacionalista

| Redistricted from Albay's 4th district and re-elected in 1946.

| style="text-align:center;" | 2

| December 30, 1949

| December 30, 1953

| style="text-align:center;" | 2nd

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Philippines)}};" |

| Severiano de León

| Liberal

| Elected in 1949.

| style="text-align:center;" | (1)

| December 30, 1953

| December 30, 1957

| style="text-align:center;" | 3rd

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Nacionalista Party}};" |

| Francisco Perfecto

| Nacionalista

| Elected in 1953.

| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" | 3

| rowspan="4" | December 30, 1957

| rowspan="4" | September 23, 1972

| style="text-align:center;" | 4th

| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Philippines)}};" |

| rowspan="4" |

| rowspan="4" | José M. Alberto

| rowspan="2" | Liberal

| Elected in 1957.

| style="text-align:center;" | 5th

| Re-elected in 1961.

| style="text-align:center;" | 6th

| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Nacionalista Party}};" |

| rowspan="2" | Nacionalista

| Re-elected in 1965.

| style="text-align:center;" | 7th

| Re-elected in 1969.
Removed from office after imposition of martial law.

| colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" | District dissolved into the twelve-seat Region V's at-large district for the Interim Batasang Pambansa.

! rowspan=2 | #

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! rowspan=2 | Batasang
Pambansa

| rowspan=2 |

! colspan=5 | Single seat

|- style="height:3em"

!Start!!End

! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | Image

! Member

! Party

! Electoral history

| colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" |

=Catanduanes's at-large district for the [[Regular Batasang Pambansa]]=

| colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" | District re-created February 1, 1984.{{cite web |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1984/02/01/proclamation-no-2332-s-1984/ |title=Proclamation No. 2332, s. 1984 |date=February 1984 |publisher=Official Gazette (Philippines) |accessdate=February 15, 2021 |archive-date=July 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718082016/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1984/02/01/proclamation-no-2332-s-1984/ |url-status=dead }}

|- style="height:3em"

| style="text-align:center;" | (3)

| July 23, 1984

| March 25, 1986

| style="text-align:center;" | 2nd

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Kilusang Bagong Lipunan}};" |

| José M. Alberto

| KBL

| Elected in 1984.

! rowspan=2 | #

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! rowspan=2 | Congress

| rowspan=2 |

! colspan=5 | Single seat

|- style="height:3em"

!Start!!End

! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | Image

! Member

! Party

! Electoral history

| colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" |

=Catanduanes's at-large district for the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines]]=

| colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" | District re-created February 2, 1987.

| style="text-align:center;" | 4

| June 30, 1987

| November 15, 1987

| style="text-align:center;" | 8th

| rowspan="13" |

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent (politician)}};" |

| Moises M. Tapia

| Independent

| Elected in 1987.
Died in office.

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 5

| rowspan="3" | June 30, 1992

| rowspan="3" | June 30, 2001

| style="text-align:center;" | 9th

| rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Lakas-NUCD-UMDP}};" |

| rowspan="3" |

| rowspan="3" | Leandro B. Verceles Jr.

| rowspan="3" | Lakas

| Elected in 1992.

| style="text-align:center;" | 10th

| Re-elected in 1995.

| style="text-align:center;" | 11th

| Re-elected in 1998.

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 6

| rowspan="3" | June 30, 2001

| rowspan="3" | June 30, 2010

| style="text-align:center;" | 12th

| rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Nationalist People's Coalition}};" |

| rowspan="3" |

| rowspan="3" | Joseph Santiago

| rowspan="3" | NPC

| Elected in 2001.

| style="text-align:center;" | 13th

| Re-elected in 2004.

| style="text-align:center;" | 14th

| Re-elected in 2007.

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 7

| rowspan="3" | June 30, 2010

| rowspan="3" | June 30, 2019

| style="text-align:center;" | 15th

| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Philippines)}};" |

| rowspan="3" |

| rowspan="3" | Cesar V. Sarmiento

| rowspan="2" | Liberal

| Elected in 2010.

| style="text-align:center;" | 16th

| Re-elected in 2013.

| style="text-align:center;" | 17th

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan}};" |

| PDP–Laban

| Re-elected in 2016.

| style="text-align:center;" | 8

| June 30, 2019

| June 30, 2022

| style="text-align:center;" | 18th

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Lakas–CMD}};" |

| Hector S. Sanchez

| Lakas

| Elected in 2019.

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | 9

| rowspan="2" | June 30, 2019

| rowspan="2" | Incumbent

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | 19th

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent politician}};" |

| rowspan="2" | 100px

| rowspan="2" | Eulogio R. Rodriguez

| Independent

| rowspan="2" | Elected in 2022.

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Partido Federal ng Pilipinas}};" |

| PFP

Election results

=2022=

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = Independent politician

|candidate = Leo Rodriguez

|votes = 75,432

|percentage = 47.1

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Lakas-CMD

|candidate = Hector S. Sanchez (incumbent)

|votes = 48,684

|percentage = 30.4

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = National Unity Party (Philippines)

|candidate = Cesar Sarmiento

|votes = 33,281

|percentage = 20.78

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Liberal Party (Philippines)

|candidate = Oliver Rodulfo

|votes = 2,754

|percentage = 1.72

|change =

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{{Election box total no change

|votes = 160151

|percentage = 100.00

|change =

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{{Election box gain with party link without swing

|winner = Independent politician

|loser = Lakas-CMD

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=2019=

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| title=2019 Philippine House of Representatives elections

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = Lakas-CMD

|candidate = Hector S. Sanchez

|votes = 56,743

|percentage =

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Nacionalista Party

|candidate = Araceli Wong

|votes = 44,407

|percentage =

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Independent politician

|candidate = Jorge Sarmiento

|votes = 40,970

|percentage =

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Nationalist People's Coalition

|candidate = Joseph Santiago

|votes = 5,630

|percentage =

|change =

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{{Election box total no change

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|percentage = 100.00

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{{Election box gain with party link without swing

|winner = Lakas-CMD

|loser = PDP-Laban

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=2013=

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References

Category:Congressional districts of the Philippines

Category:Politics of Catanduanes

Category:1898 establishments in the Philippines

Category:1945 establishments in the Philippines

Category:At-large congressional districts of the Philippines

Category:Congressional districts of the Bicol Region

Category:Constituencies established in 1898

Category:Constituencies disestablished in 1901

Category:Constituencies established in 1945