2022 Manila local elections

Elections for mayor, vice mayor and for the six members of the House of Representatives are via first-past-the-post voting. For members of the city council, it is via multiple non-transferable vote, with the candidates with six highest votes winning.

Elections for mayor and vice mayor are done at an at-large basis. Elections for members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines and the Manila City Council are via the legislative districts of Manila.

There are an additional two ex officio seats in the city council, for the city federation presidents of the Liga ng mga Barangay (village councilors league) and the Sangguniang Kabataan (youth council league). These were originally elected in 2018, and whose terms were extended until 2022. Separate elections for these bodies will be in December 2022.

Mayor Isko Moreno and Vice Mayor Honey Lacuna are the incumbents; both are members of Aksyon Demokratiko and the local party Asenso Manileño. Moreno was elected in 2019, defeating incumbent Mayor Joseph Estrada, while Lacuna was elected in 2016, succeeding Moreno.

Moreno chose not to seek reelection as the mayor of Manila and will instead run for president in 2022.[1][2] Asenso Manileño nominated Lacuna and incumbent 3rd district representative Yul Servo Nieto for mayor and vice mayor, respectively.[3]

Lacuna's notable challengers for mayor are former Philippine National Police DICTM deputy director Elmer Jamias (People's Reform Party), former 5th district representative Amado Bagatsing (KABAKA), and Christy Lim-Raymundo (Reporma), the daughter of former Mayor Alfredo Lim, who died in 2020. In 2019, Jamias lost the vice mayoralty race, while Lim-Raymundo lost the city council election. Alex Lopez (Partido Federal ng Pilipinas), the son of former mayor Mel Lopez, later joined the mayoralty race on November 10, 2021 as a substitute to Calvin Punzalan.[4] Lopez also lost the 2019 elections in the congressional race at the 2nd district.

Meanwhile, in the vice mayoralty race, Nieto will notably face actor Raymond Bagatsing of Kilusang Bagong Lipunan. Bagatsing is the grandson of former Mayor Ramon Bagatsing.[5] Bagatsing was later chosen as the running mate of Alex Lopez.

Previous potential candidates for mayor included former President and Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada and incumbent 1st district representative Manuel Luis "Manny" Lopez. Estrada lost to Moreno in 2019 and said in July of the same year that he would run again for mayor.[6] However, he did not file his Certificate of Candidacy on October 2021. Meanwhile, Lopez, the son of former Manila Mayor Mel Lopez and the current chair of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development, was chosen by PDP–Laban–Cusi wing as its mayoral candidate but chose to seek reelection for representative instead.[7][8]