The province is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its first and second congressional districts.
[1] Per Section 5 of R.A. 2227, the incumbent representatives of all five districts of Leyte continued to serve for the remainder of 4th Congress.
Southern Leyte was represented in the Interim Batasang Pambansa as part of Region VIII from 1978 to 1984.
[5] On October 10, 2019, the COMELEC regional office for Eastern Visayas suspended the special elections and delayed it to November 30, pending the Supreme Court of the Philippines issuing a certificate of finality in a related case in which COMELEC was found to violate the law by setting separate special elections for the reconfigured 1st Congressional District of South Cotabato and the newly created Lone Congressional District of General Santos City instead of the next regular (i.e., 2022) election.
Instead, on December 11, 2019, COMELEC — taking into account the September 10, 2019 Supreme Court ruling on the South Cotabato case (Vice Mayor Shirlyn L. Bañas-Nograles, et al.