Buhay Party-List

Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (transl. Let Life Prosper), more popularly known as Buhay Party-List, is a party-list group in the Philippines founded by El Shaddai leader Mike Velarde, known primarily for its staunch opposition to abortion and its advocacy for the sanctity of life.

Buhay Hayaan Yumabong
Ideology	Pro-life Christian right
Political position	Right-wing
Colors	Green
Seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines	1 / 304
House of Representatives party-list seats	1 / 61
Politics of the Philippines Political parties Elections

In the 2004 elections for the House of Representatives, the party-list group got 705,730 votes (5.5473% of the nationwide party-list vote)[1] and two seats.[2] In the 14 May 2007 election, the party won three seats in the nationwide party-list vote. In the 2010 elections, 1,249,555 votes won for Buhay three seats. Buhay was number three among all elected party-lists in the 2010 elections, after Ako Bicol, which got 1,522,986 votes (winning three seats) and Senior Citizens, which got 1,292,182 votes (also winning three seats).

Electoral performance

Election	Votes	%	Seats	Member
2001	290,760	1.92%	0	N/A
2004	705,730	5.55%	2	Christian Señeres Rene Velarde
2007	1,169,234	7.33%	3	Ma. Carissa Coscolluela Irwin Tieng Rene Velarde
2010	1,249,555	4.19%	2	Mike Velarde, Jr. Irwin Tieng
2013	1,255,808	4.62%	3	Mike Velarde, Jr. Lito Atienza Irwin Tieng
2016	760,912		4	Mike Velarde, Jr. Lito Atienza Hilary Issac-Raczek Irwin Tieng
2019	359,568		5	Mike Velarde, Jr. Lito Atienza Hilary Isaac-Raczek Iwrin Tieng Rene Velarde

References

1. Comelec Archived 2007-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
2. Congress, Congress