ACT-CIS, Bayan Muna get 3 seats each as Comelec proclaims 51 party-list winners

The Commission on Elections (Comelec), sitting as National Board of Canvassers, on Wednesday night proclaimed 51 winning party-list groups, which will have among themselves 61 seats in the House of Representatives.

Topping the race were the Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support (ACT-CIS) and Bayan Muna which both secured three seats each in the 18th Congress after receiving 2.6 million and 1.1 million votes respectively.

The party-list groups which ranked third to eighth will have two seats each. They are:

• Ako Bicol;
• Cibac;
• Ang Probinsyano;
• One Pacman;
• Marino; and
• Probinsyano Ako.

The rest of the 51 will have one seat each in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling (Banat vs. Comelec) on allocation of party-list seats.

These are:

• Senior Citizens;
• Magsasaka;
• Apec;
• Gabriela;
• An-Waray;
• Coop-Natcco;
• Alliance of Concerned Teachers;
• Philreca;
• Ako Bisaya;
• Tingog Sinirangan;
• Abono;
• Buhay;
• Duterte Youth;
• Kalinga;
• Pwersa ng Bayaning Atleta;
• Alona;
• Recoboda;
• Bagong Henerasyon;
• Bahay;
• CWS;
• Abang Lingkod;
• A-Teachers;
• BHW;
• Sagip;
• Trade Union Congress of the Philippines;
• Magdalo;
• GP;
• Manila Teachers;
• RAM;
• Anakalusugan;
• Ako Padayon;
• Aambis-Owa;
• Kusug Tausug;
• Dumper PTDA;
• TGP;
• Patrol;
• Amin;
• Agricultural Sector Alliance of the Philippines;
• LPGMA;
• OFW Family;
• Kabayan;
• Diwa; and
• Kabataan.

Twenty-nine of the groups are incumbents elected to another term. The rest were not in the 17th Congress.

“We got 3.76 votes. Kung 3.78 sana, three seats kami. Pero nagpapasalamat pa rin kami na ipinakita talaga ng mga Bicolano ang kanilang suporta,” Ako Bicol representative Alfredo Garbin said of his party-list group’s reelection.

The law provides that a party-list group able to get at least two percent of the total number of votes cast in the party-list race will be entitled to at least one seat in the House of Representatives.

Those which will breach the two-percent threshold will be entitled to additional seats proportionate to the votes they received, but the seats for every winning party-list group shall not exceed three.

Those who failed to reach the two percent threshold, however, may still secure a seat in the House of Representatives since the party-list law also requires that 20 percent of the members of the House should come from the party-list ranks. —NB, GMA News