| Election Name: | 1941 Philippine Senate election |
| Country: | Philippines |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1938 Philippine legislative election |
| Previous Year: | 1938 (National Assembly) |
| Next Election: | 1946 Philippine Senate election |
| Next Year: | 1946 |
| Election Date: | November 11, 1941 |
| Seats For Election: | All 24 seats in the Philippine Senate |
| Majority Seats: | 13 |
| Image1: | Manuel Roxas.jpg |
| Leader1: | Manuel Roxas |
| Party1: | Nacionalista Party |
| Seats1: | 24 |
| Seat Change1: | 24 |
| Leader2: | Vicente Sotto |
| Party2: | Popular Front (Philippines) |
| Seats2: | 0 |
| Seat Change2: | 0 |
| Senate President | |
| After Election: | Manuel Roxas |
| After Party: | Nacionalista Party |
| Map2 Caption: | Representation of results |
Election to the Senate were held on November 11, 1941 in the Philippines. The Senate was re-instituted after amendments to the constitution restored the bicameral legislature last used in 1935.
The elected senators would start to serve only in 1945 as they were not able to take office on December 30, 1941 as Imperial Japan invaded the country on December 8, 1941 at the onset of World War II.
The electorate voted with plurality block voting for the first time for the Senate; the voters have the option of writing the party name on the ballot and all 24 candidates from the party receive votes; another option is by voting individually for each candidate. Also, the former senatorial districts were not used; instead voting was done nationwide as one at-large district. The succeeding Senate elections would be held every two years, with eight seats to be disputed in every election.[1] [2]
The next election was to be on 1943, but due to the intervention of World War II, no elections were until 1946, where the seats supposedly up in 1943 and 1945 were disputed. The winners of the 1941 election were not seated until 1945. In the intervening years, the Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, put up a unicameral National Assembly.
These were the following tickets:
| 24 | |||
| (Sumulong wing) | 24 | ||
| (Abad Santos wing) | 23 | ||
| 22 | |||
| 11 | |||
| 1 | |||
| Total | 105 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nacionalista Party (NP) | Popular Front (Sumulong Wing) (PF-Sumulong) | Popular Front (Abad Santos Wing) (PF-Abad Santos) | Ganap Party (GP) | Modernist Party (MP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alauya Alonto | Jose Alejandrino Sr | Jose Alejandrino Sr | Wenceslao Asistido | Pedro Arteche |
| Nicolas Buendia | Jose Casal | Mariano Balgos | Sixto Bedrus | Vicente del Rosario |
| Esteban de la Rama | Pedro Coleto | Pedro C. Castro | Marcelino Chavez | Francisco Afan Delgado |
| Ramon J. Fernandez | Fernando Gardoqui | Mateo del Castillo | Alfredo Dumlao | Santiago Fonacier |
| Pedro Hernaez | Melchor Lagasca | Francisco Dematera | Jose Jabeon | Manuel Luz |
| Vicente Madrigal | Marcelino Lontok | Crisanto Evangelista | Fernando Mangson | Flora Ylagan |
| Rafael Martinez | Mamerto Manalo | Severino Izon | Vicente Pamatinat | Honorio Caringal (withdrew) |
| Quintin Paredes | Emilio Medina | Ignacio Nabong (withdrew) | Perfecto Reyes | Mariano delos Santos |
| Vicente Rama | Jose Padilla Sr. | Jose M. Nava | Florentino Subayno | Crisanto Evangelista |
| Manuel Roxas | Francisco Ramos | Datu Tampugao Pagayao | Eulalio Tolentino | Melchor Lagasca |
| Proceso Sebastian | Geronimo Santiago | Narcisa Paguibitan | Prudencio Vega | Josefa Martinez |
| Ramon Torres | Vicente Sotto | Hadji Usman | Gaudencio Bautista | rowspan="13" |
| Melecio Arranz | Jose M. Bayot | Angel Ancajas | Ciriaco V. Campomanes | |
| Mariano Jesus Cuenco | Felicidad Climaco | Isabello Caballero | Esteban Coruna | |
| Antonio de las Alas | Jose Gamboa | Severo Dava | Joaquin Flavier | |
| Carlos P. Garcia | Eliseo Imzon | Isabelo delos Reyes Jr. | Mariano Lumbre | |
| Domingo Imperial | Julio A. Llorente | Lino Dizon | Samson Palomares | |
| Daniel Maramba | Sixto Lopez | Juan Feleo | Antonio Ramos | |
| Jose Ozamiz | Angel Marin | Manuel Joven | Antipas Soriano | |
| Elpidio Quirino | Raymundo Melliza | Norberto Nabong | Aurelio Tankeko | |
| Claro M. Recto | Jose Palarca Sr | Jose Padilla Sr. | Ricardo Valdivia | |
| Eulogio Rodriguez | Pablo Rocha | Antonio Paguia | Pedro Zaragosa | |
| Emiliano Tria Tirona | Filemon Sotto | Antonio Salvador | rowspan="2" | |
| Jose Yulo | Juan Villamor |
| Manuel Briones |
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While the tally of votes have been lost in history, some sources tell where each candidate finished in the tally. Claro M. Recto finished first,[3] while Mariano Jesus Cuenco finished fifth, and Vicente Rama finished 16th.[4]
Not all candidates of the same party finished with the same number of votes, as some voted individually per candidate, instead of just writing the party name, and some didn't complete the 24 names if they did choose to vote individually per candidate.