Democratic Party (Philippines)

Democratic Party
Democratic Party
Founders	Carlos P. Romulo;
Founded	1949
Dissolved	1957
Split from	Liberal Party
Merged into	Nacionalista Party
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The Democratic Party was a political party in the Philippines in 1949 to 1957. The party was not related to the Democratic Party of the United States, Democrata Party, and Democratic Party of the Philippines.

The party fielded candidates for the 1953 general election, however, its presidential candidate Carlos P. Romulo withdrew. After Romulo withdrew, his running mate Fernando Lopez also withdrew to run in the Senate election instead. Lopez and Ruperto Kangleon both won in the senatorial election, with Lopez topping the race.

The Democrats would later merge into the Nacionalista Party.

Electoral performance

The party participated in the 1953 and 1955 elections.^[1]

Year	Presidential election			Vice presidential election
Year	Candidate	Vote share	Result	Candidate	Vote share	Result
1953	None^{[n 1]}		Ramon Magsaysay (Nacionalista)	None^{[n 2]}		Carlos P. Garcia (Nacionalista)

Year	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Result
House of Representatives
1949	3,760	.01	0 / 100		Lost
1953^{[n 1]}	342,889	8.4	11 / 102	11	Won; Joined the Majority Bloc
1957	42,890	0.9	0 / 102	11	Lost

↑ Two of the seats were from a common Nacionalista Party-Democratic Party ticket.

Fernando Lopez, topnotcher of the 1953 senatorial elections, former Vice President
Ruperto Kangleon, last in the ranking of winners of the 1953 senatorial elections, a World War II hero

↑ Christof Hartmann; Graham Hassall; Soliman M. Santos, Jr. (2001). Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz and Christof Hartmann (ed.). Elections in Asia and the Pacific Vol. II. Oxford University Press. pp. 185–230. ISBN 0199249598.

"List of Senators". Senate of the Philippines. Archived from the original on September 14, 2006. Retrieved September 16, 2006.
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