Held concurrently with the national elections, the electorate voted to elect a governor, a vice governor, fourteen provincial board members and four district representatives to congress.
1,297,243 voters voted in this election [1] Incumbent governor Aurelio Umali won reelection in a landslide victory against Palayan mayor Adrianne Mae Cuevas.
Umali and Joson also faced each other in the previous race for the vice governorship[2][3] The governor and vice governor is elected via the plurality voting system province-wide.The members are elected via plurality-at-large voting: the province is divided into four districts, the first and fourth districts sending three members each, while the second and third districts sending two members each to the provincial board; the number of candidates the electorate votes for and the number of winning candidates depends on the number of members their district sends.
The vice governor is the ex officio presiding officer, and only votes to break ties.
Incumbent governor Aurelio Umali won reelection with 69.21% of the vote against Palayan mayor Adrianne Mae Cuevas 30.78%.