Philippine presidential election, 1992

Philippine presidential election, 1992

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Turnout	75.5% 3.3%
Nominee Fidel V. Ramos Miriam Defensor-Santiago Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr. Party Lakas PRP NPC Running mate Emilio Osmeña Ramon Magsaysay, Jr. Joseph Estrada Popular vote 5,342,521 4,468,173 4,116,376 Percentage 23.58% 19.72% 18.17%   Nominee Ramon Mitra, Jr. Imelda Marcos Jovito Salonga Party LDP KBL Liberal Running mate Marcelo Fernan Vicente Magsaysay Aquilino Pimentel Jr. Popular vote 3,316,661 2,338,294 2,302,123 Percentage 14.64% 10.32% 10.16%   Nominee Salvador Laurel Party Nacionalista Running mate Eva Estrada Kalaw Popular vote 770,046 Percentage 3.40%
Election results per province/city.
President before election Corazon Aquino PDP-Laban Elected President Fidel V. Ramos Lakas

Corazon Aquino
PDP-Laban

Fidel V. Ramos
Lakas

Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 11, 1992. This was the first general elections under the 1987 Constitution. An estimated 80,000 candidates ran for 17,000 posts from the presidency down to municipal councilors. Even if the constitution allowed her to do so, President Corazon Aquino did not run again.

In the presidential election, retired general Fidel Ramos of Lakas-NUCD won a six-year term as President, by a small margin, narrowly defeated populist candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago of People's Reform Party. Ramos also got the lowest plurality in the Philippine electoral history, and beat the previous election for the closest margin of victory, percentage-wise (this record would later be beaten by the 2004 election). Miriam Santiago led the canvassing of votes for the first five days but then was overtaken by Ramos in a few days. Santiago cried fraud and filed an electoral protest citing power outages as evidence. Various media personnel became witnesses to the fraud made in the election, where the phrase, 'Miriam won in the election, but lost in the counting' became popular. However, her protest was eventually dismissed by the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

The 1992 election was the second time both president and vice president came from different parties. Movie actor and Senator Joseph Estrada won a six-year term as Vice-President, by a landslide victory.