Talk:House of Representatives of the Philippines

Party-List System
I added a bit about the change of the Comelec formula this year but more needs to be done. I don't have the time to figure out how to explain it. --Bruce Hall 13:35, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Redistricting
In all democracies that I am familiar with, redistricting is an important issue. How are districts decided? When, if ever, is there a redistricting? Are these questions appropriate for this article? --Bruce Hall 09:33, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The composition of the districts was appended in the constitution; there is no redistricting although districts can be divided by an act of Congress, hence some districts may have larger population than the others. – Howard  the   Duck  16:43, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

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Major copyright issue
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How many members?
The article is vague. There are 234 legislative districts but is there one representative per district? There are also party-list representatives but is this in addition to the district representatives? Is there a fixed number of members, or does the number vary by some scheme? 3dimen (talk) 01:39, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * It varies every after election. Every 5 new districts created means one seat is also created for a party-list member. – H T  D  11:49, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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Too much graph
The article suffers from too much graph, tables and the likes rather than contents in a paragraph. -- Namayan (talk) 00:21, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
 * WP:SOFIXIT? – H T  D  10:53, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Current Composition
I have been trying desperately to change the inaccurate composition in this article, and the Coalition for Change article as well. There have been obvious numerous changes in the composition of the House, especially the sectoral composition, the blocs, the largest party (PDP-Laban) and so on. The article is, so to say, outdated. However, it has been difficult for me to do all the work in researching the party compositions, since there is only the official House website which is reliable enough to be considered accurate. Someone must update the article, it is inaccurately outdated.  EDITOR685422 (talk) 10:57, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * This is has been a current ongoing issue. It's really hard to get info about the party affiliations of each member. I contacted the Secretariat of the House of Representatives before and they don't have this info. I've tried contacting individual parties too but had no luck. What we can only do is wait for the filing of candidacies on October to see the party affiliations of the members running again in the next 2019 elections based on the COMELEC data. --Janbryan (talk) 05:42, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

As of September 1, 2019, the House composition has been so far accurate. Recent official documents suggest that there are 299 representatives, with one representative dropped from the roll back in August. However, the composition section of the article needs to be updated and there seems to be an error (text appearing where they shouldn't be in). Someone needs to take a look at that. Thank you. I'll try getting accurate and official documents to further help in making this article more accurate. EDITOR685422 (talk) 11:53, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

New graphical representation of HOR seats
It seems like they've changed the seating arrangement of the House of Representatives chamber to a hemicycle. Can this change be reflected in the graphical representations of the chamber floor on the page? 119.93.207.158 (talk) 09:34, 25 July 2022 (UTC)


 * This has been done. Howard the Duck (talk) 13:00, 25 July 2022 (UTC)