The 1992 Valenzuela local elections were held in the municipality of Valenzuela, Metro Manila, on May 11, 1992, as part of the 1992 Philippine general election. The electorate chose a municipal mayor, a vice mayor, twelve members of the Sangguniang Bayan, and the representative of Valenzuela's lone congressional district.
Incumbent mayor Santiago A. de Guzman of the Nacionalista Party was re-elected. Municipal councilor Jose Emmanuel "Bobbit" L. Carlos was elected vice mayor, while incumbent representative Antonio M. Serapio of the Nationalist People's Coalition was re-elected to the House of Representatives.
Valenzuela was a municipality at the time of the election. It was converted into a highly urbanized city under Republic Act No. 8526, which took effect following its ratification in 1998.
Background The 1992 polls were the first synchronized presidential, congressional and local elections conducted under the 1987 Constitution. Republic Act No. 7166 scheduled the elections for the second Monday of May 1992 and provided for synchronized national and local elections thereafter. Political scientist Julio Teehankee described the polls as the first synchronized election of the post-1986 constitutional period.
Before the election, Santiago A. de Guzman was the incumbent municipal mayor. Jose Emmanuel L. Carlos, who was serving as a member of the municipal council, contested the vice-mayoral election.
Electoral system The mayor, vice mayor and representative were elected separately by plurality voting, with the candidate receiving the largest number of votes winning the office. The mayor and vice mayor were elected throughout the municipality, while the representative was elected from Valenzuela's lone congressional district.
Under Republic Act No. 6636, Valenzuela was allocated twelve regular municipal councilors. Republic Act No. 7166 subsequently required the Commission on Elections to divide each Metro Manila municipality into two councilor districts by barangay. Valenzuela therefore elected six councilors from each district through plurality block voting.
The elected local officials received three-year terms beginning at noon on June 30, 1992, pursuant to Section 43 of the Local Government Code of 1991.
Results
Mayor Incumbent mayor Santiago A. de Guzman was re-elected.
Vice mayor Councilor Jose Emmanuel Carlos was elected vice mayor.
Municipal council Twelve regular members of the Sangguniang Bayan were elected, with six councilors representing each of Valenzuela's two councilor districts.
House of Representatives Incumbent representative Antonio Serapio of the Nationalist People's Coalition was re-elected with 43,026 votes, or 40.97 per cent of the votes counted for the office.
Aftermath De Guzman and Carlos served as mayor and vice mayor, respectively, during the 1992–1995 local-government term. Serapio represented Valenzuela in the 9th Congress of the Philippines, which sat from 1992 to 1995.
See also 1992 Philippine general election 1992 Philippine House of Representatives elections Politics of Valenzuela, Metro Manila Valenzuela City Council
References
External links Commission on Elections