2028 Philippine Senate election

The **2028 Philippine Senate election** will be the 36th election of members to the Senate of the Philippines for a six-year term. It will be held on Monday, May 8, 2028, within the 2028 general elections.https://philippine-senate-election2028.my.canva.site/<nowiki/>https://philippine-senate-election2028.my.canva.site/2028-philippine-senate-election

## Term-limited incumbents https://philippine-senate-election2028.my.canva.site/2028-philippine-senate-election

The following are serving a successive six-year and are barred from seeking reelection.

1. Win Gatchalian (NPC)
    - Gatchalian is speculated to be a candidate for president. He is a potential vice presidential candidate.
1. Risa Hontiveros (Akbayan)
    - Hontiveros is interested to be a candidate for president. She is also a potential vice presidential candidate.
1. Joel Villanueva (Independent)
1. Juan Miguel Zubiri (Independent)
    - On April 1, 2024, Zubiri announced that he will not run for any public office in 2028.

## Political parties https://philippine-senate-election2028.my.canva.site/ https://philippine-senate-election2028.my.canva.site/2028-philippine-senate-election

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### Declared candidates

The following have declared their intent to run in the election:

|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Raffy Tulfo||♂||
**Independent**
|valign="top"|**#**|valign="top"|**Name**|valign="top"|**Party**|valign="top"|**Gender**|valign="top"|**Ref**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|valign="top"||valign="top"|Win-Win Villanueva Demoni|valign="top"|Independent|valign="top"|♂|valign="top"||

### Potential candidates

|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Chel Diokno||♂||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Paolo Duterte||♂||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Sonny Angara||♂||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Bong Revilla||♂||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Leila de Lima||♀||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Teodoro Casiño||♂||

|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Mark Villar||♂||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Abby Binay||♀||
||JV Ejercito||♂||
||Chiz Escudero||♂||
||Rex Gatchalian||♂||
||Loren Legarda||♀||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Robin Padilla||PDP|♂||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Benhur Abalos||♂||

|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Luke Espiritu||♂||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
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||Jinggoy Estrada||♂||
|#|Name|Party|Gender|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Alan Peter Cayetano||♂||
||Cielo Magno||♀||
||Heidi Mendoza||♀||
||Grace Poe||♀||
||Ben Tulfo||♂||

### Per candidate

The top 15 candidates with the highest favourability in each poll are listed below, where the top 12 are marked with a "black line".
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|rowspan="2"|#|colspan="3"|Jul 18–20, 2025|
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||Sotto|61.00||
||R. Tulfo|55.26||
||Poe|46.05||
||Escudero|37.66||
||Legarda|37.00||
||Duterte|36.57||
||Cayetano|34.80||
||B. Tulfo|32.22||
||Padilla|30.08||
||Abalos|29.00||
||Angara|27.65||
||Bong Revilla|26.74||
||Gatchalian|25.87||
||Estrada|25.00||
||Binay|24.60||

### Controversial Politicians and Platforms https://philippine-senate-election2028.my.canva.site/2028-philippine-senate-election

**Win-Win Villanueva Demoni** (Independent), a PMA Alumnus, former active military officer, AFP LtCol reservist, former Lone District Representative/Congressman Candidate with a very controversial platforms of **Legislating Massive Employment/Automatic Salary Increases/Automatic Pension Increases** timely at the government and minimum wage increase. He said, “Do not deprive the people of Employment.” His father died after a month of his registration for Congressman last Election 2025.

### Per party

- Parties (excluding independents) with the plurality of seats in boldface.
- Parties (excluding independents) with the majority of seats are shaded by the party color.

#### Seats won

- Totals may not add up to 12 due to margin of error.
|Date|Pollster|||||||||||||
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|Jul 18–20, 2025|Tangere|0|0|1|1|1|0|0|**2**|1|1|0|5|

#### Seats after the election

Totals may not add up to 24 due to margin of error.
|Date|Pollster|||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Jul 18–20, 2025|Tangere|0|1|1|1|2|1|3|**4**|3|1|0|7|

## Results

The Commission on Elections, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, is expected to proclaim the winners at least a week after election.

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|‡|align=left|Seats up|
|*|align=left|Gained by a party from another party|
|√|align=left|Held by the incumbent|
|+|align=left|Held by the same party with a new senator|

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2028 Philippine Senate election
- **type**: legislative
- **ongoing**: yes
- **seats for election**: 12 (of the 24) seats to the Senate of the Philippines
- **majority seats**: 13
- **country**: Philippines
- **previous year**: 2025
- **previous election**: 2025 Philippine Senate election
- **next year**: 2031
- **title**: President of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate President
- **party colour**: yes
- **map2 image**: File:2028 Philippine Senate election results.png
- **map2 size**: 300px
- **map2 caption**: Composition of the Senate before the election, with the seats up for election inside the box.