Elections for the reformed Sangguniang Kabataan (SK; youth councils) were also held at the same time.
The winning officials were originally to serve until June 30, 2020, but since the 2020 elections were postponed to 2022 in 2019, and again to 2023, their terms were also extended to November 30, 2023.
[5] On October 2, 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law a bill postponing again the 2017 barangay and SK election to May 2018.
[7] At the hearings at the attempt to postpone it to October 2018, League national president Edmund Abesamis, who was supporting the election's postponement defending that it wasn't self-serving, was berated by Congressman Antonio Tinio of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers who branded him as shameless.
Tinio added that several barangay officials are term limited and should have been replaced by an election as early as 2016.
[7] The eligible ages for the Sangguniang Kabataan elections were changed to 18–24 years old for candidates, and 15-30 for voters.
Following the pronouncements of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) released on 30 April 2018, the list of barangay officials allegedly involved in the drug trade.
PDEA Director-General Aaron Aquino and DILG Officer-in-Charge Eduardo Año stated that nearly 200 personalities are in the list.
PDEA admitted that the said list that were based on existing police and military intelligence reports, lacks adequate veracity hence cases have not been filed against the said personalities in the courts.
[20] The DILG asked the commission to hold special elections in 39 barangays where no SK candidates ran.
[22] After the winners were determined, the winning barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan chairmen started to vote among themselves on who would be sitting in their respective local legislatures as their representatives.
After nominations and candidacies were made, elections at the municipal and component city level was held on July 16.
Meanwhile, those who won in the component city and municipal level shall vote among themselves to determine who shall sit among them in their respective Sangguniang Panlalawigan, on July 30.
Chairmen from independent component and highly urbanized cities also hold their elections on this date to determine their representatives in their respective Sangguniang Panlungsod.
[27] Despite this, Col. Romeo Brawner Jr., deputy commander of Joint Task Force Ranao, said that there were no casualties during the day.