Maguindanao's at-large congressional district was a short-livedcongressional district that encompassed the formerly undivided province ofMaguindanao in the Philippines. It was represented in theBatasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986.[1] Maguindanao was created by the further division ofCotabato into three provinces in 1973 out of thirteen ethnicMaguindanao-dominated municipalities of the former province.[2] Due to the absence of a legislature since the1972 imposition of martial law, no electoral district was formed in the new province under its charter. When a national parliament known as theBatasang Pambansa was convened in 1978, Maguindanao and four other provinces inCentral Mindanao were collectively represented by eight delegates who were elected across Region XII. The only time a provincewideat-large district was used to elect representatives for Maguindanao was during the1984 Philippine parliamentary election for two seats in theRegular Batasang Pambansa shared with the charteredcity of Cotabato.[3]
The district was eliminated following the 1987apportionment which created two districts in the province of Maguindanao under a new constitution.[4] It briefly resurfaced after the province's1st district was carved out to form the short-lived province ofShariff Kabunsuan in 2006 leaving the2nd district as the sole constituency in what remained of the province for the2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections.[5] A2008 decision by theSupreme Court nullified the new province and Maguindanao reverted to two-district configuration by the2010 Philippine House of Representatives elections.[6]
| # | Term of office | Batasang Pambansa | Seat A | Seat B | |||||||||||
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| Start | End | Image | Member | Party | Electoral history | Image | Member | Party | Electoral history | ||||||
Maguindanao's at-large district for theRegular Batasang Pambansa[edit] | |||||||||||||||
| District created February 1, 1984.[7] | |||||||||||||||
| – | July 23, 1984 | March 25, 1986 | 2nd |  | Simeon Datumanong | KBL | Elected in 1984. |  | Salipada Pendatun | KBL | Elected in 1984. Died January 27, 1985. | ||||
| District dissolved intoMaguindanao's 1st and2nd districts. | |||||||||||||||
| # | Term of office | Congress | Single seat | Seats eliminated | |||||||||||
| Start | End | Image | Member | Party | Electoral history | ||||||||||
Maguindanao's at-large district for theHouse of Representatives of the Philippines[edit] | |||||||||||||||
| District re-created September 6, 2006.[5] | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | June 30, 2007 | July 16, 2008 | 14th | | Simeon Datumanong | Lakas | Redistricted from the2nd district andre-elected in 2007. Redistricted to the2nd district. | ||||||||
| District dissolved intoMaguindanao's 2nd district. | |||||||||||||||
