Thelegislative districts of Lapu-Lapu are the representations of thehighly urbanized city ofLapu-Lapu in theCongress of the Philippines. The city is currently represented in thelower house of the Congress through itslone congressional district.
The present-day city of Lapu-Lapu initially formed part of theat-large district ofCebu from 1898 to 1899. It later formed part ofsecond district of Cebu for thePhilippine Assembly in 1907. When seats for theupper house of thePhilippine Legislature were elected from territory-based districts between 1916 and 1935, the then-municipality of Opon formed part of the tenth senatorial district which elected two out of the 24-member senate.
In the disruption caused by theSecond World War,two delegates represented the province of Cebu (of which the municipality of Opon was a part) in theNational Assembly of the Japanese-sponsoredSecond Philippine Republic: one was the provincial governor (anex officio member), while the other was elected through a provincial assembly ofKALIBAPI members during theJapanese occupation of the Philippines. Upon the restoration of thePhilippine Commonwealth in 1945, the province's seven-district configuration was restored. The Municipality of Opon, converted into the city of Lapu-Lapu in 1961, remained a part of Cebu's second district until 1972.
Lapu-Lapu was represented in theInterim Batasang Pambansa as part ofRegion VII from 1978 to 1984. The city, along with the rest of Cebu province (exceptCebu City), electedsix representatives, at large, to theRegular Batasang Pambansa in the1984 elections. When the province was reapportioned into sixcongressional districts under the new Constitution[1] which was proclaimed on February 11, 1987, Lapu-Lapu formed part of the province'ssixth district.
Two years after Lapu-Lapu was converted into ahighly urbanized city in 2007, it was also granted separate congressional representation by virtue of Republic Act No. 9726, approved on October 22, 2009. The law separated the city from Cebu'ssixth district to form its own congressional district[2] after the2010 elections.
| District | Current Representative | Party | Barangays | Population (2020) | Area | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lone | Junard Chan (since2025) Pajo | PFP | List
| 497,604[3] | 58.10 km2 | ||