Philippines's 8th senatorial district

Philippines's 8th senatorial district, officially the Eighth Senatorial District of the Philippine Islands (Spanish: Octavo Distrito Senatorial de las Islas Filipinas), was one of the twelve senatorial districts of the Philippines in existence between 1916 and 1935. It elected two members to the Senate of the Philippines, the upper chamber of the bicameral Philippine Legislature under the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands for each of the 4th to 10th legislatures. The district was created under the 1916 Jones Law from the western Visayas provinces of Antique, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental and Palawan.[1]

The district was represented by a total of seven senators throughout its existence. It was abolished in 1935 when a unicameral National Assembly was installed under a new constitution following the passage of the Tydings–McDuffie Act which established the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Since the 1941 elections when the Senate was restored after a constitutional plebiscite, all twenty-four members of the upper house have been elected countrywide at-large. It was last represented by Gil Montilla and Isaac Lacson of the Nacionalista Democrático.[2][3]

List of senators

Seat A								Legislature		Seat B
#	Senator		Term of office		Party	Electoral history				#	Senator		Term of office		Party	Electoral history
			Start	End									Start	End
1		Espiridión Guanco	October 16, 1916	May 2, 1925	Nacionalista	Elected in 1916.		4th		1		Manuel López	October 16, 1916	June 3, 1919	Nacionalista	Elected in 1916.
								5th		2		Hermenegildo Villanueva	June 3, 1919	June 2, 1931	Nacionalista	Elected in 1919.
					Nacionalista Colectivista	Re-elected in 1922. Died.		6th							Nacionalista Colectivista
2		Mariano Yulo	August 31, 1925	July 11, 1929	Nacionalista Consolidado	Elected to finish Guanco's term.		7th							Nacionalista Consolidado	Re-elected in 1925.
						Re-elected in 1928. Died.		8th
3		Francisco Zulueta	September 18, 1929	June 5, 1934	Nacionalista Consolidado	Elected to finish Yulo's term.
								9th		3		Gil Montilla	June 2, 1931	September 16, 1935	Nacionalista Consolidado	Elected in 1931.
4		Isaac Lacson	June 5, 1934	September 16, 1935	Nacionalista Democrático	Elected in 1934.		10th							Nacionalista Democrático

See also

• Legislative districts of the Philippines

References

1. United States Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1918. pp. 37–38. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
2. "List of previous senators". Senate of the Philippines. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
3. "Roster of Philippine Senators". Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved 12 May 2020.