Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines

The **Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines**, or simply **Senate Majority Floor Leader**, is the leader elected by the majority party of the Senate of the Philippines that becomes their official leader in the body.

He also manages the business of the majority part in the Senate. By tradition, the Senate President or any Presiding Officer gives the Majority leader the job of having the floor and also, he is the traditional Chairman of the Committee on Rules.

The incumbent Majority Floor Leader of the Senate is Juan Miguel Zubiri, who was elected on May 21, 2018.

## List of Majority Floor Leaders

|#|Name|Party|District|Legislature|Term|Era||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1**|**Francisco F. Villanueva**|**NP**|**7th**|**Fourth**|**1916–1919**|**Insular Government**||
|rowspan=2|**2**|**Francisco Enage**|**9th**|**Fifth**|**1919–1922**|||
|**Sixth**|**1922–1925**|||||||
|none|**Seventh**|**1925–1928**||||||
|**3**|**Jose P. Laurel**|**NP**|5th|**Eighth**|**1928–1931**|||
|**4**|**Benigno Aquino, Sr.**|**3rd**|**Ninth**|**1931–1934**||||
|**5**|**Claro M. Recto**|**5th**|**Tenth**|**1934–1935**||||
|**6**|**Melecio Arranz**|**Nationwide**|**First**|**1945–1946**|**Commonwealth**|||
|rowspan=2|**7**|**Vicente Francisco**|**Second**|**1946–1946**||||
|**First**|**1946–1948**|**Third**||||||
|rowspan=2|**8**|**Tomas Cabili**|**LP**|**1948–1949**||||
|**Second**|**1950–1953**|||||||
|rowspan=3|**9**|**Cipriano Primicias, Sr.**|**NP**|**Third**|**1954–1957**|||
|**Fourth**|**1958–1961**|||||||
|**Fifth**|**1962–1965**|||||||
|**10**|**Arturo M. Tolentino, Sr.**|||||||
|**11**|**Jose J. Roy**|**Sixth**|**1966–1969**|||||
|**12**|**Rodolfo Ganzon**|||||||
|rowspan=2|**(10)**|rowspan=2|**Arturo M. Tolentino, Sr.**|||||
|**Seventh**|**1970–1972**|||||||
|**13**|**Orlando S. Mercado**|**LP**|**Eighth**|**July 27, 1987–October 31, 1989**|**Fifth**|||
|**14**|**Teofisto Guingona, Jr.**|**July 23, 1990–July 22, 1991**||||||
|rowspan=3|**15**|**Alberto Romulo**|**LDP**|rowspan=3|**July 22, 1991–October 10, 1996**|||
|**Ninth**||||||||
|rowspan=3|**Tenth**|||||||
|**16**|**Francisco Tatad**|**October 10, 1996–January 26, 1998**||||||
|rowspan=2|**17**|rowspan=2|**Franklin Drilon**|bgcolor=|**Lakas**|**January 26, 1998–1998**||
|bgcolor=]|**LAMMP**|rowspan=2|**Eleventh**|**1998–July 12, 2000**||||
|**(16)**|**Francisco Tatad**|bgcolor=|**PRP**|**July 12, 2000–June 30, 2001**||||
|**18**|**Loren Legarda**|bgcolor=|**Lakas**|rowspan=4|Twelfth|**July 23, 2001–June 3, 2002**||
|**19**|**Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.**|bgcolor=|**PDP–Laban**|**June 3, 2002–July 23, 2002**||||
|**(18)**|**Loren Legarda**|bgcolor=|**Lakas**|**July 23, 2002–May 2004**||||
|rowspan=3|**20**|**Francis Pangilinan**|LP'''|**June 2004–June 30, 2004**||||
|**Thirteenth**|**July 1, 2004–June 30, 2007**|||||||
|**Fourteenth**|**June 30, 2007–November 17, 2008**|||||||
|**21**|**Juan Miguel Zubiri**|bgcolor=|**Lakas**|**November 17, 2008–June 30, 2010**||||
|**22**|**Tito Sotto**|bgcolor=|**NPC**|**Fifteenth**|**July 26, 2010–July 22, 2013**|||
|**23**|**Alan Peter Cayetano**|bgcolor=|**NP**|**Sixteenth**|**July 23, 2013–June 30, 2016**|||
|**(22)**|**Tito Sotto**|bgcolor=|**NPC**|rowspan=2|**Seventeenth**|**July 25, 2016–May 21, 2018**||
|rowspan=2|**(21)**|rowspan=2|**Juan Miguel Zubiri**|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|**PDP–Laban**|rowspan=2|**May 21, 2018–present**|
|**Eighteenth**||||||||

## Living former Majority Leaders of the Senate

Currently there are seven living former Majority Leaders of the Senate:

## Related pages

- Minority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines

## Other websites

- Senate of the Philippines

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: Majority Floor Leader
- **body**: the Senate of the Philippines
- **insigniasize**: 100px
- **insigniacaption**: Official seal
- **image**: Miguel Zubiri Senate 2018 (cropped).jpg
- **incumbent**: Juan Miguel Zubiri
- **incumbentsince**: May 21, 2018
- **style**: The Honorable
<small>(Diplomatic)</small>
- **appointer**: Elected by the Senate of the Philippines
- **formation**: October 16, 1916
- **inaugural**: Francisco Villanueva
- **website**: [http://www.senate.gov.ph/ Senate of the Philippines]