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Legislative districts of Samar

Legislative districts of Samar

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The legislative districts of Samar are the representations of the province of Samar in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its first and second congressional districts.

History

The former province of Samar was divided into three legislative districts from 1907 until 1965.

Its division into three different provinces was only approved in a plebiscite held together with the general elections on November 19, 1965, as mandated by Republic Act No. 4221,[1] which meant that voters still elected representatives under the old district configuration. After the ratification of RA 4221 the representatives of the second and third districts automatically served as the representatives of the lone districts of Western Samar and Eastern Samar, respectively, while the representative of the first district only served until 1967, when special elections were held to determine the new representative for Northern Samar. In 1969 Western Samar was renamed, and it is just this portion of the original undivided province that now assumes the title Samar.

Samar was part of the representation of Region VIII from 1978 to 1984, and from 1984 to 1986 it elected 2 assemblymen at-large. In 1986 it was redistricted into two legislative districts.

1st District

1st District of Samar
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  1. Appointed Secretary of the Interior and Local Government on September 11, 2015.
  2. Quezon City's 4th District Representative and House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte served as legislative caretaker of the district for the remaining term of the 16th Congress.[2]

1907–1969

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  1. Died in office, November 4, 1956.
  2. Died in office, August 24, 1967.

2nd District

2nd District of Samar
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1907–1969

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  1. Pedro R. Arteche was elected on November 1941 but died before the start of the session on June 9, 1945.
  2. Automatically became representative of the lone district of Western Samar upon ratification of Republic Act No. 4221.

3rd District (defunct)

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  1. Automatically became representative of the lone district of Eastern Samar upon ratification of Republic Act No. 4221.

Lone District (defunct)

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  1. Automatically became representative of the lone district of Western Samar upon ratification of Republic Act No. 4221.

At-Large (defunct)

1943-1944

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1984-1986

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References

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