Barangay elections are elections in the Philippines in the barangays or villages, the smallest government

administrative divisions of the Philippines. Barangays make up Philippine cities or Philippine

municipalities and are in turn made of up sitios and puroks, whose leaders are not elected. Voters of each
barangay over 18 years old vote for one Punong Barangay (barangay chairman) and seven Barangay
Kagawad (barangay councilors). Together, the captain and councilors make up the Sangguniang Barangay
(Barangay Council). Voters aged 15 to 17 years old vote in elections for the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK):
one SK Chairman and seven SK councilors during the same election. The winning SK chairman serves as
a member of the barangay council.

The barangay and SK chairmen are elected via first-past-the-post voting system, while barangay and SK
councilors are elected via the plurality-at-large voting system with one barangay as an at-large "district".

While candidates are nominally nonpartisan and do not represent political parties, slates consisting of a
candidate for barangay chairman and seven barangay councilor candidates are not uncommon; SK slates
are also sometimes connected to a slate of a barangay chairman. Winning candidates serve for a term of
three years, with reelection of up to two more times. Terms of office for barangay officials are usually
extended when elections are postponed as a cost-saving measure.

Winning barangay captains in a certain municipality or city elect amongst themselves an Association of
Barangay Captains (ABC) president that will serve as their representative in the Sangguniang Bayan
(Municipal Council) or Sangguniang Panlungsod (City Council). ABC presidents in a certain province
will elect amongst their representative in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Board). ABC
presidents in provincial boards and city councils not under a jurisdiction of a province elect amongst
themselves a national president and other officials of the League of Barangays of the Philippines.

MANILA - The postponement of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections will have no
effect on the 2019 mid-term elections, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista
said Wednesday.

Speaking to ANC, Bautista said Comelec welcomes the postponement despite the fact that the poll body
is already in the thick of preparations for the supposed elections this month.

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"What we would have wanted was an earlier decision on whether or not it was postponed but of course,
we don't control the process," he said.

Comelec studies effect of possible Barangay polls postponement

“What are the ramifications of another postponement? The barangay elections have been postponed once,
and as a result of that the barangay officials were held over,” Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said.

“We don’t know if the next law that postpones it, if such a law comes, will also provide for a holdover or
will provide for a different solution to the question of leadership at the community level,” he added.

Jimenez said they are also studying its possible effect on the electoral system.
“We are studying what will be the effect of this to our electoral system if there wont be a holdover and
just appointment of leaders,” he said.

The poll official chose not to comment on the constitutionality of just appointing barangay officers-in-
charge (OICs).

“At this point we cannot opine on that one…because we are still studying the consequence of a
postponement,” said Jimenez.

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