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Local elections were held in Zamboanga City on May 10, 2004, within the Philippine general election. The voters elected for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, 12 councilors and one representative from its lone district.

Mayoral and vice mayoral elections

Mayor Maria Clara Lobregat died of complications in January 2004, paving the mayoralty race for the ruling Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino wide open since she was the presumptive nominee running for a third term. Vice-Mayor Erbie Fabian took her place as acting mayor.

Lobregat's son, incumbent Congressman Celso Lobregat became the standard-bearer of the LDP, and incumbent Mayor Fabian will run for the post left by Celso. Celso picked Councilor Beng Climaco as his running-mate.

Results

The candidate for district representative, mayor, and vice mayor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately; therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.

House of Representatives election

Lone District

Incumbent Vice-Mayor Erbie Fabian is running for the post against former Mayor Manuel Dalipe.

2004 Philippine House of Representatives election at Zamboanga City's Lone District
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Erbie Fabian	102,915
	Independent	Manuel Dalipe	78,619
Total votes				100.0
	LDP hold

Mayoral elections

Incumbent Congressman Celso Lobregat is running for mayor against prominent businessman Lepeng Wee and Councilor Charlie Mariano.

Zamboanga City mayoral election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes
	LDP	Celso Lobregat	104,075
	Independent	Lepeng Wee	63,104
	Independent	Charlie Mariano	45,323
	Independent	Alejandro Guardian	755
	Independent	Abdusalam Angkaya	415
Total votes
	LDP hold

Vice-mayoral elections

The vice-mayorship is vacant since Vice-Mayor Erbie Fabian took office upon Mayor Lobregat's death. Incumbent Councilor Beng Climaco runs against veteran politician Jaime Cabato.

Zamboanga City vice-mayoral election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes
	LDP	Maria Isabelle Climaco	140,225
	Independent	Jaime Cabato	59,989
	Independent	Popoy Tumagidgid	1,376
Total votes
	LDP hold

City council elections

Zamboanga City elects twelve councilors to the city council. The twelve candidates with the highest number of votes wins the seats.

Coalition		Mayoral/vice mayoral candidate	Total votes		Total seats
Coalition		Mayoral/vice mayoral candidate	Total	%	Total	%
	LDP	Celso Lobregat			12	86%
	Independent	Lepeng Wee			0	0%
Total valid votes cast				N/A
Total turnout
Total partisan seats					16	88.9%
Seat for Association of Barangay Captains President					1	5.6%
Seat for Association of Sangguniang Kabataan chairmen President					1	5.6%
Total non-partisan seats					2	11.1%
Total seats					14	100.0%

Zamboanga City Council election at Zamboanga City's Lone District, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes
	LDP	Milabel Velasquez (incumbent)	131,608
	LDP	Asbi Edding (incumbent)	130,481
	LDP	Manuel Jose Dalipe (incumbent)	122,552
	LDP	Juan Climaco Elago II (incumbent)	115,575
	LDP	Cesar Iturralde (incumbent)	111,276
	LDP	Luis Climaco	104,065
	LDP	Reyniero Candido	103,172
	LDP	Roel Natividad (incumbent)	98,267
	LDP	Cesar Jimenez, Sr. (incumbent)	96,037
	LDP	Rodolfo Lim	94,042
	LDP	Elias Enriquez (incumbent)	85,946
	LDP	Benjamin Guingona III	84,421

Total votes
	LDP hold