Election Name: | 1936 Philippine National Assembly special elections |
Country: | Philippines |
Flag Year: | 1936 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1935 Philippine legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1935 |
Next Election: | 1938 Philippine legislative election |
Next Year: | 1938 |
Election Date: | September 1, 1936 |
Seats For Election: | Four of 89 seats in the National Assembly of the Philippines |
Leader1: | Gil Montilla |
Leaders Seat1: | Negros Occidental–3rd |
Party1: | Nacionalista Party |
Seats1: | 4 |
Four special elections (known elsewhere as "by-elections") to the National Assembly of the Philippines, the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, were done on September 1, 1936. These were to fill up vacancies from four seats.
The seats in the National Assembly were elected from single member districts, under the first-past-the-post voting system.
The following seats were up for election:
See also: Abra's at-large congressional district. The seat from Abra was vacated when incumbent Quintín Paredes was appointed Resident Commissioner to the United States, the Commonwealth of the Philippines's delegate in the United States Congress.[1]
See also: Ilocos Norte's 2nd congressional district. The seat from Ilocos Norte's 2nd district was vacated when assemblyman-elect Julio Nalundasan was shot at his home in Batac just right after the 1935 legislative election. Nalundasan was murdered on September 20, 1935 while he was brushing his teeth. Ferdinand Marcos, the future president and son of Nalundasan's opponent Mariano, among others, was convicted of murder, but that was reversed on appeal years later.[2]
See also: Leyte's 4th congressional district. The seat from Leyte's 4th district was vacated when incumbent Francisco Enage was appointed to be a member of the technical staff at Malacañang Palace.
See also: Samar's 2nd congressional district. The seat from Samar's 2nd district was vacated when incumbent Serafin Marabut was appointed to be undersecretary of finance and director of the Budget Office (now the Secretary of Budget and Management).