Federal Party (Philippines)

Alfredo Abcede was a two-time presidential candidate of this Federal Party.

Abcede also ran for the Senate in 1953, 1955 and 1959, losing each time, and never getting more than 0.5% of the vote.

[1] Former Representative from Bohol Bartolome Cabangbang was one of the candidates in the 1981 presidential election overwhelmingly won by the incumbent president Ferdinand Marcos.

This election was boycotted by most opposition parties when their preferred candidate, Benigno Aquino Jr., was barred from running for being underage.

Cabangbang's platform of the Philippines becoming the 51st state of the United States earned him a surprising 4% of the vote, attributed to the people's yearning for the American colonial administration in preference to Marcos' just-concluded martial law.