Legislative districts of Zambales

The legislative districts of Zambales are the representations of the province of Zambales and the highly urbanized city of Olongapo in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province and the city are currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through their first and second congressional districts.

History

Zambales, including the city of Olongapo (chartered in 1966), comprised a lone district from 1898 to 1972. The province and chartered city were represented in the Interim Batasang Pambansa as part of Region III from 1978 to 1984.

Zambales elected one representative to the Regular Batasang Pambansa in 1984, with Olongapo sending a separate representative as a highly urbanized city. Effective February 11, 1987, the province, with Olongapo regrouping with it, was divided into two congressional districts under the new Constitution,[1] and elected members to the restored House of Representatives starting that same year.

Current Districts

  Lakas–CMD (2)

Legislative districts and representatives of Zambales

District	Current Representative			Party	Constituent LGUs	Population (2020)[2]	Area[3]	Map
	Image		Name
1st			Jefferson Khonghun (since 2022)	Lakas–CMD	List Castillejos San Marcelino Olongapo Subic	477,837	982.01 km^2
2nd			Doris Maniquiz (since 2022)	Lakas–CMD	List Botolan Cabangan Candelaria Iba Masinloc Palauig San Antonio San Felipe San Narciso Santa Cruz	432,095	2,848.82 km^2

Historical Districts

Lone District (defunct)

• Municipalities: Botolan, Iba, Masinloc, Olongapo (nominally annexed to Subic 1913, re-established 1959, became city 1966), San Marcelino, San Narciso, Santa Cruz, Subic, Cabangan (re-established 1907), San Felipe (re-established 1908), San Antonio (re-established 1908), Palauig (re-established 1909), Candelaria (re-established 1909)

Period	Representative
1st Philippine Legislature 1907–1909	Alberto Barreto
2nd Philippine Legislature 1909–1912
3rd Philippine Legislature 1912–1916	Gabriel Alba
4th Philippine Legislature 1916–1919	Guillermo Pablo
5th Philippine Legislature 1919–1922
6th Philippine Legislature 1922–1925	Alejo Labrador
7th Philippine Legislature 1925–1928
8th Philippine Legislature 1928–1931	Gregorio Anonas
9th Philippine Legislature 1931–1934
10th Philippine Legislature 1934–1935	Felipe Estrella
1st National Assembly 1935–1938	Potenciano Lesaca
2nd National Assembly 1938–1941	Valentin Afable
1st Commonwealth Congress 1945
1st Congress 1946–1949	Ramon Magsaysay[a]
2nd Congress 1949–1953
	vacant
3rd Congress 1953–1957	Enrique Corpus
4th Congress 1957–1961	Genaro Magsaysay
5th Congress 1961–1965	Virgilio L. Afable
6th Congress 1965–1969	Ramon B. Magsaysay Jr.
7th Congress 1969–1972	Antonio M. Diaz

Notes

1. Appointed by President Elpidio Quirino as Secretary of National Defense in September 1, 1950 making his post vacant.

At-Large (defunct)

1898–1899

Period	Representatives
Malolos Congress 1898–1899	Juan Manday Gabriel
	Alejandro Albert
	Felix Bautista

1943–1944

Period	Representatives
National Assembly 1943–1944	Valentin Afable
	Francisco Dantes

1984–1986

Period	Representative
Regular Batasang Pambansa 1984–1986	Antonio M. Diaz

See also

• Legislative district of Olongapo

References

1. "1987 Philippine Constitution - the LawPhil Project".
2. "TABLE 1. Population of legislative districts by Region, Province, and selected Highly Urbanized/Component City : 2020" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
3. "List of Provinces". PSGC Interactive. National Statistical Coordination Board. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2022.