1992 Philippine presidential election

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Turnout	75.5% (3.3pp)
Candidate Fidel V. Ramos Miriam Defensor Santiago Danding Cojuangco Party Lakas PRP NPC Running mate Lito Osmeña Ramon Magsaysay Jr. Joseph Estrada Popular vote 5,342,521 4,468,173 4,116,376 Percentage 23.58% 19.72% 18.17%   Candidate Ramon Mitra Jr. Imelda Marcos Jovito Salonga Party LDP KBL Liberal Running mate Marcelo Fernan Vicente Magsaysay Aquilino Pimentel Jr. Popular vote 3,316,661 2,338,294 2,302,123 Percentage 14.64% 10.32% 10.16%
Election results per province/city.
President before election Corazon Aquino Independent Elected President Fidel V. Ramos Lakas
1992 Philippine vice presidential election
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Candidate Joseph Estrada Marcelo Fernan Lito Osmeña Party NPC LDP Lakas Popular vote 6,739,738 4,438,494 3,362,467 Percentage 33.01% 21.74% 16.47%   Candidate Ramon Magsaysay Jr. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. Vicente Magsaysay Party PRP PDP–Laban KBL Popular vote 2,900,556 2,023,289 699,895 Percentage 14.20% 9.91% 3.43%
Election results per province/city
Vice President before election Salvador Laurel Nacionalista Elected Vice President Joseph Estrada NPC

The1992 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on May 11, 1992.^[1] This was the first general election held under the1987 Constitution and after theEDSA People Power Revolution. An estimated 80,000 candidates ran for 17,000 posts from the presidency down to municipal councilors.

The new constitution limited the president to a single six-year term with no possibility of reelection, even if nonsuccessive.^[2] Although some ofPresidentCorazon Aquino's advisers suggested that she could run for a second term,^[3] as she was sworn in before the 1987 Constitution took effect, Aquino did not run again.^[4]

In the presidential election, retired generalFidel Ramos ofLakas–NUCD narrowly defeated populist candidateMiriam Defensor Santiago of thePeople's Reform Party.^[5] Ramos also got the lowest plurality in the Philippine electoral history, and beat theprevious election for the closest margin of victory, percentage-wise (this record would later be beaten by the2004 election).^[6]

Santiago led the canvassing of votes for the first five days but then was overtaken by Ramos in a few days. Santiago cried fraud and filed an electoral protest citingpower outages as evidence.^[7] Various media personnel became witnesses to the fraud made in the election, where the phrase, 'Miriam won in the election, but lost in the counting' became popular.^[8] However, her protest was eventually dismissed by the Supreme Court of the Philippines.^[7]

The 1992 election was the second time both president and vice president came from different parties.^[9] Movie actor andSenatorJoseph Estrada, running with presidential candidateEduardo Cojuanco, won a six-year term asvice-president.^[10]

Under the transitory provisions of the Constitution, 24 senators were elected in this election. The first 12 senators who garnered the highest votes would have six-year terms while the next 12 senators would have three-year terms.^[11] Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) received a large share in the Senate race.^[12] Television personality andQuezon City vice mayorVicente Sotto III (also known as Tito Sotto) received the highest number of votes.^[13]

A debate was held between presidential candidatesSalvador Laurel andRamon Mitra Jr. on theABS-CBN television programMagandang Gabi... Bayan on March 7, 1992.^[14] It was considered an especially heated debate between the two candidates, with theManila Standard noting the "barbs, insults, and witticisms" exchanged during the program.^[14][15]

On March 15, theCommission on Elections (COMELEC) began its series of six presidential and vice-presidential debates held over the next six Sundays,^[16] with the first debate held among presidential candidatesFidel V. Ramos,Miriam Defensor-Santiago, andJovito Salonga, moderated byDong Puno and broadcast live onGMA Network.^[17] Estrada, then a presidential candidate, was scheduled to participate in the debate but had to withdraw due to a prior commitment.^[18]

The second COMELEC-sponsored presidential debate was held on March 22 among Laurel, Mitra, andEduardo Cojuangco Jr., moderated by Puno and broadcast live onRPN.^[19] The debate was also broadcast live on radio through the government-owned Radyo ng Bayan, but was interrupted 45 minutes into the debate when the station switched instead to a broadcast of aLakas-NUCD rally inDumaguete led by President Aquino.^[20]

The first vice-presidential debate as set by COMELEC was held on March 29 amongMarcelo Fernan,Ramon Magsaysay Jr., andVicente Magsaysay,^[21] moderated by Mario C. Garcia and broadcast live on the government-ownedPTV.^[22]

• Commission on Elections
• Politics of the Philippines
• Philippine elections
• President of the Philippines
• 9th Congress of the Philippines
• 1992 Philippine general election

• The Philippine Presidency Project
• Official website of the Commission on Elections
• Official website of the House of RepresentativesArchived 2020-06-04 at theWayback Machine

• Fontaine, Roger W. (1992)."The Philippines: After Aquino".Asian Affairs: An American Review.19 (3):170–190.doi:10.1080/00927678.1992.9936959.
• Landé, Carl Herman (1996).Post-Marcos Politics: A Geographical and Statistical Analysis of the 1992 Presidential Election. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.ISBN 9789813055209.

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• Presidential elections in the Philippines

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