Nueva Ecija's at-large congressional district

Nueva Ecija's at-large congressional district was the provincewide electoral district of Nueva Ecija for Philippine national legislatures before 1987.^[1]

The district was first created ahead of the 1898 Philippine legislative election for two seats in the Malolos Congress. Epifanio de los Santos and José Turiano Santiago were elected at-large as Nueva Ecija's representatives in the National Assembly of the nascent First Philippine Republic, with a third seat allocated for an appointed delegate from Pampanga, Gregorio Macapinlac.^[2] After the fall of the Republic, the U.S. insular government was installed which reorganized a legislative assembly for representatives of the different provinces in 1907, the Philippine Assembly.^[3] Nueva Ecija was given one seat in that legislature and continued to elect its representatives from this single-member at-large district until the 1926 reapportionment into two smaller districts which took effect beginning with the 1928 Philippine House of Representatives elections.^[4]

Nueva Ecija returned to at-large elections for a seat in the National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic in 1943.^[5] The restoration of the Commonwealth government and the House of Representatives in 1945 also restored the two districts in the province thereby eliminating the provincewide electoral district. It was recreated for the last time ahead of the 1984 Philippine parliamentary election following a shift from regional electoral districts in the interim parliament, where Nueva Ecija was included in the multi-member at-large representation of Region III (Central Luzon) from 1978 to 1984, to provincial and city district constituencies in the regular parliament.^[1][6]

The district became obsolete following the 1987 reapportionment that established four districts in the province under a new constitution.^[7]

Representation history

#	Term of office		National Assembly		Seat A					Seat B					Seat C
	Start	End			Member		Party	Electoral history		Member		Party	Electoral history		Member		Party	Electoral history
Nueva Ecija's at-large district for the Malolos Congress
District created June 18, 1898.^[2]^[8]
–	September 15, 1898	March 23, 1901	1st			José Turiano Santiago	Independent	Elected in 1898.			Epifanio de los Santos	Independent	Elected in 1898.			Gregorio Macapinlac	Independent	Appointed.
#	Term of office		Legislature		Single seat
	Start	End			Member		Party	Electoral history
Nueva Ecija's at-large district for the Philippine Assembly
District re-created January 9, 1907.^[3]^[9]
1	October 16, 1907	October 16, 1912	1st			Isauro Gabaldón	Nacionalista	Elected in 1907.
			2nd					Re-elected in 1909.
2	October 16, 1912	October 16, 1916	3rd			Lucio Gonzales	Nacionalista	Elected in 1912.
#	Term of office		Legislature		Single seat
	Start	End			Member		Party	Electoral history
Nueva Ecija's at-large district for the House of Representatives of the Philippine Islands
3	October 16, 1916	June 3, 1919	4th			Isidoro Gonzales	Nacionalista	Elected in 1916.
4	June 3, 1919	June 6, 1922	5th			Gaudencio Medina	Nacionalista	Elected in 1919.
5	June 6, 1922	June 2, 1925	6th			Hermogenes Concepción Sr.	Demócrata	Elected in 1922.
(1)	–	–	7th			Isauro Gabaldón	Nacionalista Consolidado	Elected in 1925. Disqualified for lack of residency.
6	March 22, 1926	June 5, 1928				Feliciano Ramoso	Nacionalista Consolidado	Elected in 1926 to fill vacancy.
District dissolved into Nueva Ecija's 1st and 2nd districts.
#	Term of office		National Assembly		Seat A					Seat B
	Start	End			Member		Party	Electoral history		Member		Party	Electoral history
Nueva Ecija's at-large district for the National Assembly (Second Philippine Republic)
District re-created September 7, 1943.^[5]
–	September 25, 1943	February 2, 1944	1st			Hermogenes Concepción Sr.	KALIBAPI	Elected in 1943.			José Robles Jr.	KALIBAPI	Appointed as an ex officio member.
District dissolved into Nueva Ecija's 1st and 2nd districts.
#	Term of office		Batasang Pambansa		Seat A					Seat B					Seat C					Seat D
	Start	End			Member		Party	Electoral history		Member		Party	Electoral history		Member		Party	Electoral history		Member		Party	Electoral history
Nueva Ecija's at-large district for the Regular Batasang Pambansa
District re-created February 1, 1984.^[10]
–	July 23, 1984	March 25, 1986	2nd			Angel D. Concepcion	KBL	Elected in 1984.			Leopoldo D. Diaz	KBL	Elected in 1984.			Mario S. Garcia	KBL	Elected in 1984.			Eduardo Nonato Joson	KBL	Elected in 1984.
District dissolved into Nueva Ecija's 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th districts.

See also

• Legislative districts of Nueva Ecija

References

1. "Roster of Philippine legislators". House of Representatives of the Philippines. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
2. "The Malolos Congress: A Centennial publication on the inauguration of the Philippine Republic (January 23, 1899 - January 3, 1999)". National Historical Commission of the Philippines. 1999. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
3. "Act No. 1582, (1907-01-09)". Lawyerly. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
4. "Act No. 3336, (1926-12-07)". Lawyerly. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
5. "The 1943 Constitution". Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved March 18, 2021.
6. "Batas Pambansa Blg. 643, (1983-12-21)". Lawyerly. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
7. "The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines". Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
8. "Decree of June 18, 1898, establishing the Dictatorial Government" (PDF). Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved March 18, 2021.
9. Division of Insular Affairs (1908). Eighth Annual Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War. Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents Relating to the Philippine Islands. Vol. 253. Elihu Root, Secretary of War. Washington, D.C.: United States War Department. p. 49. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
10. "Proclamation No. 2332, s. 1984". Official Gazette (Philippines). February 1984. Retrieved March 18, 2021.