# Zamboanga's at-large congressional district

Zamboanga's at-large congressional district may refer to several occasions when a provincewide at-large district was used for elections to the various Philippine national legislatures from the undivided province of Zamboanga.
The Spanish colonial province of Zamboanga was represented in the Malolos Congress following its reorganization in 1898 for the National Assembly of the First Philippine Republic. Three representatives from Luzon were appointed by the assembly to represent the province, namely Felipe Buencamino and Lázaro Tañedo from Tarlac, and Tomás Mascardo from Pampanga. After the fall of the First Republic, the province was abolished with its territory reduced to a district annexed to Moro Province under U.S. civilian rule in 1903. Moro Province was unrepresented in the Philippine Assembly.
Provincial government was re-established in Zamboanga in 1914 but was not entitled to its own representation in the national legislature. Instead, it remained a part of the larger constituency of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu under the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes whose representatives were appointed by the Governor General beginning in 1916. In 1934, following the passage of the Tydings–McDuffie Act, Zamboanga elected its own delegate for the first time to the 1934 Philippine Constitutional Convention which was charged with the drafting of a new constitution for the Commonwealth of the Philippines. The province then began to send a representative to the Commonwealth National Assembly from its single-member at-large district created under the 1935 constitution.
Zamboanga was also represented in the Second Republic National Assembly during the Pacific War. It also elected a representative to the restored House of Representatives and to the first two congresses of the Third Philippine Republic. It was last represented by Roseller T. Lim. After the 1952 partition of Zamboanga, the district was abolished and replaced by Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts.

## Representation history

| # | Term of office | Term of office | National Assembly | | Seat A | Seat A | Seat A | Seat A | | Seat B | Seat B | Seat B | Seat B | | Seat C | Seat C | Seat C | Seat C |
| # | Start | End | National Assembly | | Member | Member | Party | Electoral history | | Member | Member | Party | Electoral history | | Member | Member | Party | Electoral history |
| Zamboanga's at-large district for the Malolos Congress |||||||||||||||||||
| District created June 18, 1898. |||||||||||||||||||
| – | September 15, 1898 | March 23, 1901 | 1st | | | Felipe Buencamino | Independent | Appointed. | | | Tomás Mascardo | Independent | Appointed. | | | Lázaro Tañedo | Independent | Appointed. |
| # | Term of office | Term of office | National Assembly | | Single seat | Single seat | Single seat | Single seat | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| # | Start | End | National Assembly | | Member | Member | Party | Electoral history | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| Seats eliminated |||||||||
| Seats eliminated |||||||||
| 1 | September 16, 1935 | December 30, 1941 | 1st | | | Juan S. Alano | Nacionalista Democrático | Elected in 1935. | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| 1 | September 16, 1935 | December 30, 1941 | 2nd | | | Juan S. Alano | Nacionalista | Re-elected in 1938. | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| # | Term of office | Term of office | National Assembly | | Seat A | Seat A | Seat A | Seat A | | Seat B | Seat B | Seat B | Seat B | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored |
| # | Start | End | National Assembly | | Member | Member | Party | Electoral history | | Member | Member | Party | Electoral history | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored |
| Seats restored ||||||||||||||
| Seats restored ||||||||||||||
| – | September 25, 1943 | February 2, 1944 | 1st | | | Juan S. Alano | KALIBAPI | Elected in 1943. | | | Agustín L. Álvarez | KALIBAPI | Appointed as an ex officio member. | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored | Seats restored |
| # | Term of office | Term of office | Common wealth Congress | | Single seat | Single seat | Single seat | Single seat | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| # | Start | End | Common wealth Congress | | Member | Member | Party | Electoral history | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| Seats eliminated |||||||||
| Seats eliminated |||||||||
| 2 | June 9, 1945 | May 25, 1946 | 1st | | | Matias Ranillo Sr. | Nacionalista | Elected in 1941. | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| # | Term of office | Term of office | Congress | | Single seat | Single seat | Single seat | Single seat | | | | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| # | Start | End | Congress | | Member | Member | Party | Electoral history | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| Seats eliminated |||||||||
| (1) | May 25, 1946 | December 30, 1949 | 1st | | | Juan S. Alano | Liberal | Elected in 1946. | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| 3 | December 30, 1949 | December 30, 1953 | 2nd | | | Roseller T. Lim | Nacionalista | Elected in 1949. Redistricted to Zamboanga del Sur's at-large district. | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated | Seats eliminated |
| District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | District dissolved into Zamboanga del Norte's and Zamboanga del Sur's at-large districts. | | | | | | | | | | |