1965 Philippine presidential election

1965 Philippine presidential election

November 9, 1965
Turnout	76.4% 3.0%
Nominee Ferdinand Marcos Diosdado Macapagal Juana Sanchez Party Nacionalista Liberal Progressive Running mate Fernando Lopez Gerardo Roxas Manuel Manahan Popular vote 3,861,324 3,187,752 384,564 Percentage 51.94% 42.88% 5.17%
Election results per province/city.
President before election Diosdado Macapagal Liberal Elected President Ferdinand E. Marcos Nacionalista

The 1965 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on November 9, 1965. Incumbent President Diosdado Macapagal lost his opportunity to get a second full term as president of the Philippines to Senate President Ferdinand Marcos. His running mate, Senator Gerardo Roxas, lost to former vice president Fernando Lopez. Emmanuel Pelaez, who resigned in the Cabinet and from the Liberal Party, then sought the Nacionalista Party presidential nomination and lost it to Marcos, did not run for vice president and instead ran in the House of Representatives as an independent. An unprecedented twelve candidates ran for president; however, nine of those won 200 votes or less.

This was the first election where two of the major presidential candidates were born after the end of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines as well as the first time in which a former president running for relection switched parties (though Juana Sanchez rejoined the Nacionalista Party in 1981).