Bulacan Provincial Board

Bulacan Provincial Board

Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Bulacan
Bulacan Provincial Board ; Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Bulacan
12th Sangguniang Panlalawigan
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	3 terms (9 years)
Leadership
Presiding Officer	Alexis Castro, NUP ; since June 30, 2022
Structure
Seats	18 board members; 1 ex officio presiding officer
Political groups	NUP (8) PFP (2) Lakas (2) AR (1) NPC (1) Independent (1) Nonpartisan (3)
Length of term	3 years
Authority	Local Government Code of the Philippines
Elections
Voting system	Plurality-at-large (regular members); Indirect election (ex officio members); Acclamation (sectoral member);
Last election	May 12, 2025
Next election	May 15, 2028
Meeting place
	Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Hall, Bulacan Provincial Capitol, Malolos
Website
	sp.bulacan.gov.ph

The Bulacan Provincial Board is the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) of the Philippine province of Bulacan.

The members are elected via plurality-at-large voting: the province is divided into six Sangguniang Panlalawigan districts, and each district send two members since 2022; the number of candidates the electorate votes for and the number of winning candidates depends on the number of members their district sends. The vice governor is the ex officio presiding officer, and only votes to break ties. The vice governor is elected via the plurality voting system province-wide.

The districts used in appropriation of members is coextensive with the legislative districts of Bulacan, with the exception that the Legislative district of San Jose del Monte being a part of the 4th provincial board district until 2025.

District apportionment

Elections	No. of seats per district							Ex officio seats	Reserved seats	Total seats
Elections	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	SJDM	Ex officio seats	Reserved seats	Total seats
2004–16	3	2	2	3	—	—	—	3	0	13
2017–21	3	2	2	3	—	—	—	3	1	14
2022–24	2	2	2	2	2	2	—	3	1	16
2025–beyond	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	1	18

In May 2024, the Supreme Court ordered the addition of two seats in the Board for San Jose del Monte following a petition by Representative Florida Robes.^[1]^[2]^[3]

List of members

An additional three ex officio members are the presidents of the provincial chapters of the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC), the Philippine Councilors League (PCL), the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) provincial president shall elect amongst themselves their provincial presidents which shall be their representatives at the board.

Starting in 2017, the province also reserved a seat for its indigenous peoples.^[4]

Current members

Vice Governor: Alexis Castro (NUP)


Seat		Party	Term number	Start of term	End of term
Bulacan's 1st district	Michael Aquino	NUP	1	June 30, 2025	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 1st district	Romina Fermin	Independent	3	June 30, 2019	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 2nd district	Erlene Luz dela Cruz	NUP	3	June 30, 2019	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 2nd district	Lee Edward Nicolas	NUP	2	June 30, 2022	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 3rd district	Romeo Castro Jr.	NUP	3	June 30, 2019	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 3rd district	Raul Mariano	NUP	2	June 30, 2022	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 4th district	Anna Kathrina Hernandez	PFP	1	June 30, 2025	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 4th district	William Villarica	PFP	1	June 30, 2025	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 5th district	Richard Roque	NUP	2	June 30, 2022	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 5th district	Cezar Mendoza	NUP	2	June 30, 2022	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 6th district	Renato de Guzman Jr.	Lakas	2	June 30, 2022	June 30, 2028
Bulacan's 6th district	Arthur Legaspi	Lakas	2	June 30, 2022	June 30, 2028
San Jose del Monte's at-large district	Enrique delos Santos Jr.	NUP	3	June 30, 2019	June 30, 2028
San Jose del Monte's at-large district	Efren Bartolome Jr.	AR	1	June 30, 2025	June 30, 2028
ABC	Fortunato Angeles	Nonpartisan	1	October 3, 2024	January 1, 2026
PCL	Josef Andrew Mendoza	NPC	1	July 29, 2025	June 30, 2028
SK	Casey Tyrone Howard^[5]	Nonpartisan	1	November 28, 2023	January 1, 2026
IPMR	Liberato Sembrano^[6]	Nonpartisan	2	February 5, 2021	February 5, 2027

Membership summary

Election year	#	IP MR	PCL	SK	11	12	13	14
2004 local	5th	N/a	?		N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a	Lakas
2007 local	6th	N/a	?		N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a	No majority
2010 local	7th	N/a			N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a	Liberal
2013 local	8th	N/a		N/a¹	N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a	NUP
2016 local	9th	N/a			N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a	Liberal
2017 IPMR									Liberal
2018 BSKE									Liberal
2019 local	10th				N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a	NUP
2021 IPMR	10th				N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a	NUP
2022 local	11th						N/a	N/a	No majority
2023 BSKE									No majority
2024 IPMR									No majority
2025 local	12th								NUP

^1The term of elected officials of the Sangguniang Kabataan elected in 2010 expired on November 30, 2013, and were not replaced.

Vice Governor

Election year	Name
1988	Ricardo Nicolas, Jr (until 1989)
1988	Ramon Villarama (since 1989)
1992	Josefina dela Cruz
1995	Josefina dela Cruz
1998	Aurelio Plamenco	Lakas
2001		Lakas
2004		Lakas
2007	Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado	Lakas
2010	Daniel Fernando	Lakas–Kampi
2013		NUP
2016		Liberal
2019	Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado	NUP
2022	Alex Castro	NUP
2025	Alex Castro	NUP

1st District

City: Malolos
Municipalities: Bulakan, Calumpit, Hagonoy, Paombong, Pulilan
Population (2020): 758,872

Election year			Member (party)
2004	Pacifico Aniag (Lakas)	Patrocinio Laderas (Lakas)		Raul Mendoza (Lakas)
2007	Christian Natividad (KAMPI)	Vicente Cruz, Sr. (Lakas)		Patrocinio Laderas (KAMPI)
2010	Michael Fermin (Liberal)	Felix Ople (Liberal)		Therese Cheryll Ople (Lakas-Kampi)
2013	Michael Fermin (NUP)	Felix Ople (NUP)		Therese Cheryll Ople (NUP)
2016	Felix Ople (Liberal)	Therese Cheryll Ople (Liberal)		Allan Andan (NPC)
2019	Allan Andan (PDP–Laban)	Romina Fermin (NUP)		Bernando Ople Jr. (NUP)
2022	Allan Andan (PDP–Laban)	Romina Fermin (PDP-Laban)	Seat eliminated
2025	Michael Aquino (NUP)	Romina Fermin (Independent)	Seat eliminated

2nd District

City: Baliwag
Municipalities: Bustos, Plaridel
Population (2020): 360,101

Election year
2004	Daniel Fernando (Lakas)	Ariel Arceo (Lakas)
2007	Ramon Posadas (KAMPI)	Ariel Arceo (UNO)
2010	Ramon Posadas (Liberal)	Enrique dela Cruz, Jr. (Liberal)
2013	Ramon Posadas (NUP)	Enrique dela Cruz, Jr. (NUP)
2016	Enrique dela Cruz, Jr. (Liberal)	Ma. Lourdes Posadas (Liberal)
2019	Erlene Luz dela Cruz (NUP)	Ramon Posadas (NUP)
2022		Lee Edward Nicolas (PDP-Laban)
2025		Lee Edward Nicolas (NUP)

3rd District

Municipalities: Doña Remedios Trinidad, San Ildefonso, San Miguel, San Rafael
Population (2020): 419,539

Election year
2004	Enrique Viudez II (Lakas)	Ernesto Sulit (Lakas)
2007	Enrique Viudez II (KAMPI)	Ernesto Sulit (Lakas)
2010	Enrique Viudez II (Liberal)	Rino Castro (Liberal)
2013	Rino Castro (NUP)	Ernesto Sulit (Liberal)
2016	Rino Castro (NPC)	Emelita Viceo (Liberal)
2019	Romeo Castro, Jr. (NUP)	Emelita Viceo (NUP)
2022		Raul Mariano (NUP)
2025		Raul Mariano (NUP)

4th District

Cities: Meycauayan
Municipalities: Marilao, Obando
Population (2020): 1,191,917

Election year			Member (party)
2004	Enrique delos Santos (Lakas)	Glenn Santos (Lakas)		Primitivo Tamayo (Lakas)
2007	Eulogio Sarmiento III (Lakas)	Enrique delos Santos, Jr. (KAMPI)		Glenn Santos (KAMPI)
2010	Eulogio Sarmiento III (Liberal)	Enrique delos Santos, Jr. (Liberal)		Romeo Allan Robes (Lakas-Kampi)
2013	Eulogio Sarmiento III (NUP)	Enrique delos Santos, Jr. (NUP)		Allan Ray Baluyut (Nacionalista)
2016	Alexis Castro (NPC)	Allan Ray Baluyut (Liberal)		Perlita delos Santos (Liberal)
2019	Enrique delos Santos, Jr. (PDP–Laban)	Alexis Castro (NUP)		Allan Ray Baluyut (NUP)
2022	Enrique delos Santos, Jr. (PDP–Laban)	Allen Dale Baluyut (NUP)	Seat eliminated
2025	Anna Kathrina Hernandez (PFP)	William Villarica (PFP)	Seat eliminated

5th District

Municipalities: Balagtas, Bocaue, Guiguinto, Pandi
Population (2020): 486,960

Election year	Member (party)		Member (party)
2022		Richard Roque (NUP)		Cezar Mendoza (NUP)
2025		Richard Roque (NUP)		Cezar Mendoza (NUP)

6th District

Municipalities: Angat, Norzagaray, Santa Maria
Population (2020): 491,501

Election year	Member (party)		Member (party)
2022		Renato de Guzman, Jr. (PDP–Laban)		Arthur Legaspi (PDP-Laban)
2025		Renato de Guzman, Jr. (Lakas-CMD)		Arthur Legaspi (Lakas-CMD)

San Jose del Monte's at-large district

City: San Jose del Monte
Population (2020): 651,813

Election year	Member (party)		Member (party)
2025		Enrique delos Santos, Jr. (NUP)		Efren Bartolome, Jr. (AR)

Liga ng mga Barangay seat

Election year	Member
2007	Ferdinand Estrella
2010	Mark Cholo Violago
2013	Mark Cholo Violago
2018	Ramilito Capistrano (2018–2024)^[7]^[a]
2023	Ramilito Capistrano (2018–2024)^[7]^[a]
2023	Fortunato Angeles

Sangguniang Kabataan seat

Election year	Member
2007	Mark Joseph Guillermo
2010	Mark Jerome Anthony Santiago
2013	none
2018	John Myron Nicolas
2023	Casey Tyrone Howard
2023	Casey Tyrone Howard

Philippine Councilors League seat

Election year	Member (party)
2007		Michael Fermin
2010		Ariel Arceo (PMP)
2013		Ariel Arceo (CDP)
2016		Josef Andrew Mendoza (Independent)
2019		Marie Claudette Serrano (interim) (NUP)
2019		William Villarica (PDP–Laban)
2022		William Villarica (PDP–Laban)
2025		Josef Andrew Mendoza (NPC)

Indigenous peoples' seat


Year	Member
2017	Norma Roque
2021	Liberato Sembrano^[6]
2024	Liberato Sembrano^[6]

Notes

↑ Died in office, October 3, 2024.^[8]

References

↑ "SC says San Jose del Monte can now have 2 seats in Sangguniang Panlalawigan". GMA News. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
↑ Parungao, Adrian (May 10, 2024). "SC: San Jose del Monte may have 2 seats in Bulacan provincial board". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
↑ Villamente, Jing (May 11, 2024). "San Jose del Monte gets 2 Bulacan council seats". Daily Tribune (Philippines). Retrieved May 11, 2024.
↑ "Welcome to Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Bulacan". sp.bulacan.gov.ph. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
↑ DILG Bulacan (27 November 2024). "𝐒𝐊 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐠, 𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐊 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐧". Facebook. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
1 2 News on C (2 February 2024). "IPMRs BM Sembrano, Nanumpa na - Gob.Fernando". Facebook. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
↑ "Board Member Ramilito B. Capistrano". Provincial Government of Bulacan. Government of the Philippines. Archived from the original on October 5, 2024. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
↑ Mauricio, Orlan (October 5, 2024). "Bulacan board member, driver killed in ambush". Manila Standard. Retrieved October 5, 2024.

[Capistrano-9] Died in office, October 3, 2024.^[8]

[1] "SC says San Jose del Monte can now have 2 seats in Sangguniang Panlalawigan". GMA News. Retrieved 10 May 2024.

[2] Parungao, Adrian (May 10, 2024). "SC: San Jose del Monte may have 2 seats in Bulacan provincial board". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved May 11, 2024.

[3] Villamente, Jing (May 11, 2024). "San Jose del Monte gets 2 Bulacan council seats". Daily Tribune (Philippines). Retrieved May 11, 2024.

[4] "Welcome to Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Bulacan". sp.bulacan.gov.ph. Retrieved 2020-08-01.

[5] DILG Bulacan (27 November 2024). "𝐒𝐊 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐠, 𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐊 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐧". Facebook. Retrieved 20 May 2024.

[:0-6] 1 2 News on C (2 February 2024). "IPMRs BM Sembrano, Nanumpa na - Gob.Fernando". Facebook. Retrieved 20 May 2024.

[7] "Board Member Ramilito B. Capistrano". Provincial Government of Bulacan. Government of the Philippines. Archived from the original on October 5, 2024. Retrieved October 5, 2024.

[8] Mauricio, Orlan (October 5, 2024). "Bulacan board member, driver killed in ambush". Manila Standard. Retrieved October 5, 2024.

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