This was the first general election (where all positions were contested) under the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

An estimated 80,000 candidates ran for 17,000 posts, from the presidency all the way down to municipal councilors.

The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) got a large share in the Senate race.

These were the incumbents who won: Lakas's Leticia Ramos-Shahani and Nina Rasul, LDP's Heherson Alvarez, Edgardo Angara, Butz Aquino, Neptali Gonzales, Teofisto Guingona Jr., Ernesto Herrera, Joey Lina, Orlando S. Mercado, and Alberto Romulo, Liberal's Wigberto Tañada, and NPC's John Henry Osmeña and Ernesto Maceda, Neophyte senators were LDP's Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Rodolfo Biazon, Blas Ople, Ramon Revilla Sr., Raul Roco, Tito Sotto and Freddie Webb, and NPC's Nikki Coseteng.

Tamano, Liberal's Victor Ziga, and Nacionalista's Sotero Laurel.