QC to have two additional districts

Reynaldo Santos Jr

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President Aquino approves a proposal that will create two new legislative districts and 12 Sangguniang Panglungsod seats in Quezon City

SECOND DISTRICT. Two new districts will be carved out of this giant district in Quezon City.

MANILA, Philippines – Quezon City will soon have two new legislative districts.

President Benigno Aquino III approved on July 2 Republic Act 10170, which divides the second district, the biggest in Quezon City, into 3. This process will increase the city’s current four districts to six.

The newly-signed law mandates that 25 out of the 30 barangays in the second district will comprise the two new districts:

Fifth legislative district:

  • Barangay Bagbag
  • Barangay Capri
  • Barangay Greater Lagro
  • Barangay Gulod
  • Barangay Kaligayahan
  • Barangay Nagkaisang Nayon
  • Barangay North Fairview
  • Barangay Novaliches Proper
  • Barangay Pasong Putik Proper
  • Barangay San Agustin
  • Barangay San Bartolome
  • Barangay Santa Lucia
  • Barangay Santa Monica
  • Barangay Fairview


Sixth legislative district:

  • Barangay Apolonio Samson
  • Barangay Baesa
  • Barangay Balon-Bato
  • Barangay Culiat
  • Barangay New Era
  • Barangay Pasong Tamo
  • Barangay Sangandaan
  • Barangay Tandang Sora
  • Barangay Unang Sigaw
  • Barangay Sauyo
  • Barangay Talipapa


The remaining 5 barangays will comprise what will be left of the second district:

  • Barangay Bagong Silangan
  • Barangay Batasan Hills
  • Barangay Commonwealth
  • Barangay Holy Spirit
  • Barangay Payatas


Four of these barangays (Barangays Commonwealth, Batasan Hills, Payatas, and Holy Spirit) are considered the most populous barangays in the city.

Also, 12 seats in the Sangguniang Panlungsod will be opened with the creation of the two new districts. The Local Government Code entitles each district to have 6 representatives in the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

The second district currently occupies the whole northern part of QC, and has an area of 98.50 sq.km. — more than half of the city’s 166.20 sq.km. total area.

As of the 2010 census, the second district of QC has a population of 1,611,488, more than half of the city’s 2,761,720 total population. The 1987 Constitution mandates that a legistrative district should have a population of at least 250,000 inhabitants.   

Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr., chair of the Senate Committee on Local Government, commended the passage of this “long-overdue bill,” saying that “with the large population of Quezon City, the people of this local government unit undoubtedly deserve additional seats in the House of Representatives.”

According to the new law, reapportioning the Quezon City legislative districts “shall commence in the next national and local elections after the effectivity of the law.” The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will set for a city-wide plebiscite, wherein QC residents will vote whether or not to allow the creation of the new districts.

The creation of more districts in QC allows for additional seats in the House of Representatives. This gives defeated 2010 congressional candidates in QC’s second district a chance to run for the same post in the new districts, given that their residences are in these new areas. Among them are former QC 2nd district representatives Ismael Mathay III and Annie Rosa Susano.

Mathay, representative from 2001 to 2004, ran for the same post in 2010 but was defeated by Winston Castelo. Susano, representative from 2004 to 2010, on the other hand, ran for city mayor but was defeated by Herbert Bautista.

It was Susano who presented some compact flash (CF) cards as evidence of election fraud in a congressional hearing held after the 2010 automated polls. She was warned that it would bring about criminal liabilities, since possession of election paraphernalia is prohibited under the automation law. No case, however, was filed against her.

District 2 of Quezon City has already been the subject of a planned creation for a new local government unit. In 1998, the government approved a proposal that mandates carving out 15 barangays in it to establish Novaliches City. But in the city-wide plebiscite in 1999, majority of the city’s voting residents rejected the creation of the new city. – Rappler.com

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