1936 Philippine National Assembly special elections
Four special elections (known elsewhere as "by-elections ") to the National Assembly of the Philippines , the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Philippines , were done on September 1, 1936. These were to fill up vacancies from four seats.
Electoral system
The seats in the National Assembly were elected from single member districts , under the first-past-the-post voting system.
The following seats were up for election:[ 1]
Special elections
Abra
The seat from Abra was vacated when incumbent Quintín Paredes was appointed Resident Commissioner to the United States , the Commonwealth of the Philippines 's delegate in the United States Congress .[ 1]
1936 Abra's at-large National Assembly district special election Candidate Votes % Agapito Garduque 3,320 47.19 Jesus Paredes 2,525 35.89 Adolfo Brillantes 1,190 16.92 Total 7,035 100.00 Majority 795 11.3
The seat from Ilocos Norte 's 2nd district was vacated when assemblyman-elect Julio Nalundasan was shot at his home in Batac just right after the 1935 legislative election .[ 1] Ferdinand Marcos , the future president and son of Nalundasan's opponent Mariano , among others, was convicted of murder, but that was reversed on appeal years later.[ 2]
1936 Ilocos Norte's 2nd National Assembly district special election Candidate Votes % Ulpiano Arzadon 7,452 68.90 Mariano Marcos 2,597 24.01 Juan Root 766 7.08 Total 10,815 100.00 Majority 4,855 44.89
The seat from Leyte 's 4th district was vacated when incumbent Francisco Enage was appointed to be a member of the technical staff at Malacañang Palace .[ 1]
1936 Leyte's 4th National Assembly district special election Candidate Votes % Norberto Romualdez 7,033 76.32 Antonio Marcos 2,182 23.68 Total 9,215 100.00 Majority 4,851 52.64
The seat from Samar 's 2nd district was vacated when incumbent Serafin Marabut was appointed to be undersecretary of finance and director of the Budget Office (now the Secretary of Budget and Management ).[ 1]
1936 Samar's 2nd National Assembly district special election Candidate Votes % Pascual Azanza 4,722 59.34 Leocaldo Tanseco 3,236 40.66 Total 7,958 100.00 Majority 1,486 18.67
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