Allies of presidential-elect Bongbong Marcos won a majority of the seats, with his cousin Martin Romualdez being elected as speaker.

[1] By March 2020, Cayetano allegedly met with representatives from the Nacionalistas and the NUP to consolidate support for his tenure as speaker.

and with Cayetano having enough votes to be reelected, override the original agreement in order to remain in position for the rest of the congressional term.

[4] Velasco rejected Duterte's suggestion to move the term-sharing deal from October to December.

[5] On the October 1 session, Cayetano, who attacked Velasco for pushing through with the deal in the middle of the pandemic and while the budget was being tackled offered to resign as speaker, but it was rejected by his allies.

A later vote showed that 184 representatives wanted Cayetano to stay as speaker, 1 dissented, and 9 abstained.

[9] On October 12, the day before the special session, Velasco and his allies gathered in the Celebrity Sports Plaza in Quezon City to elect new officials of the House of Representatives, including the speakership.

While voting was ongoing, Cayetano resigned as speaker on Facebook live, giving Velasco the speakership undisputedly.

Party-lists and political parties participating in the district elections may forge coalition deals with one another.

Campaigning for elections from congressional districts seats are decidedly local; the candidates are most likely a part of an election slate that includes candidates for other positions in the locality, and slates may comprise different parties.

The political parties contesting the election make no attempt to create a national campaign.

Congress usually creates a new district once a place reaches the minimum 250,000 population mandated by the constitution.

There were originally four new districts that will be first contested in 2022, based from redistricting laws passed by the 17th Congress that were not implemented in time for the 2019 election:[19] It will also be the first election for Davao de Oro in that name, after the successful renaming plebiscite in 2019 from "Compostela Valley".

[22] In the ensuing plebiscite held on March 13, 2021, the voters rejected division, thereby retaining the status quo of three districts shared between Palawan and Puerto Princesa.

The party-list representatives, save from the Makabayan bloc usually support the policies of the sitting president.

[156] Allies of Bongbong Marcos, the winner of the concurrent presidential election, captured most of the seats in the House of Representatives.

Outgoing majority leader Martin Romualdez and former speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo are thought to be the contenders for the speakership in the 19th Congress.

[157] Notes A total of 177 parties and organizations were included in the draw on how these would be listed in the ballot.

[159] Upon the proclamation of senators-elect on May 18, the commission said they'd proclaim the winning party-lists after the results of the special elections in 12 barangays in Tubaran, Lanao del Sur on May 24 are known.

With the victory of his cousin, Bongbong Marcos, as president, outgoing majority leader Martin Romualdez was pushed by the National Unity Party (NUP) to lead the House of Representatives.

[169] Another potential candidate is current speaker Lord Allan Velasco of the ruling PDP–Laban, while both Arroyo and Romualdez are from Lakas–CMD.

[172] The Party-list Coalition also gave their endorsement to Romualdez, while announcing that Elizaldy Co, representative for Ako Bikol, will be their leader in the 19th Congress, replacing Mikee Romero of 1-PACMAN.

[173] Later in the week, Lakas released a statement that said that the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) also endorsed Romauldez's speakership ambitions, with NPC chairman Tito Sotto announcing in a separate statement the "unconditional support of the party to the Speakership of Congressman Martin Romualdez.