Cebu's 5th legislative district special election, 2005
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Cebu
Cebu is a province in the Philippines, consisting of Cebu Island and 167 surrounding islands. It is located to the east of Negros, to the west of Leyte and Bohol islands...
's 5th district seat in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
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was held on May 30, 2005.
Background
On 2004, representative Joseph Ace DuranoJoseph Ace Durano
Joseph Hotchkiss Durano , popularly known as Ace Durano, was one of the youngest to be elected representative to the 11th congress...
(Lakas-CMD) was appointed by President
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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as Secretary of Tourism
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. Durano accepted the appointment on November 30, 2004, which caused his seat to be vacated. As a result, the House of Representatives
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issued a resolution on March 2, 2005 declaring the seat vacant, paving way for the Commission on Elections
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to call an election on May 30, 2005. Candidates filed their certificates of candidacy from April 22 to 28. Campaign period was from April 29 to May 28.
Result
Durano's brother, Ramon Durano VIRamon Durano VI
Ramón H. Durano VI is a Filipino politician. A member of the Nationalist People's Coalition, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines in a 2005 special election, succeeding his brother Joseph Ace Durano as the Representative of the Fifth District of Cebu, following the...
of the Nationalist People's Coalition
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(NPC), won convincingly to keep the seat within the Durano family, winning in all 891 polling precincts in the district's ten towns and Danao. His grandfather, Ramon Durano, Sr., previously held the seat from 1949 to 1971 (the area was districted as Cebu's 1st district at that time). Ramon VI's father, Ramon Durano III, then mayor of Danao, later became congressman and then represented the district for three consecutive terms from 1987 to 1998, before Joseph Ace succeeded him. Joseph Ace was on his second term when he was appointed Tourism secretary. Even before the votes were cast, Durano's opponent, Dean Severo Dosado, was quoted as having said he did not think he was going to win. He and the other candidate, Wilfredo Tuadles, did not field any poll watchers.
The low turnout (48.56%) was blamed on the non-inclusion of areas outside the district in the special holiday for the election. Another factor was the nonexistence of campaign materials from the candidates. The turnout in Liloan
Liloan, Cebu
Liloan is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 92,181 people with 42,202 registered voters and has 13,381 residents....
, the town with the lowest turnout at 31.78%, was blamed on the town fiesta
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that prevented the electorate from voting.
Dosado described the election as a "waste of money" and blamed Joseph Ace for it.