Senate of the Philippines
Upper house of the Congress of the Philippines
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| 2022 | Former senators Gregorio Honasan and Antonio Trillanes failed in their attempts to return to the Senate. |
| 2022 | Incumbent senators Dick Gordon and Leila de Lima did not successfully defend their seats in the election. |
| 2022 | Neophyte senators Robin Padilla, Raffy Tulfo, and Mark Villar were elected to the Senate. |
| 2022 | Several senators successfully defended their seats, including Win Gatchalian, Migz Zubiri, Joel Villanueva, Risa Hontiveros, Jinggoy Estrada, JV Ejercito, Loren Legarda, and Francis Escudero. |
| 2022 | Senatorial election held to contest the seats originally disputed in the 2016 election, with candidates competing for 12 positions in the 19th Congress. |
| 2022 | Three candidates from the Team Robredo–Pangilinan slate successfully won Senate seats. |
| 2022 | Migz Zubiri, a UniTeam candidate, was elected as Senate president following the election. |
| 2022 | UniTeam candidates won a plurality of seats in the Senate election, securing more positions than other political slates. |
| October 1 2022 | Manny Pacquiao filed his candidacy for president under PROMDI party. |
| September 19 2022 | Manny Pacquiao officially accepted the nomination of PDP–Laban's Pimentel faction for president. |
| June 30 2022 | The term of the senators elected in the 2016 Senate election was set to conclude, marking the end of their six-year service in the Philippine Senate. |
| June 30 2022 | Start of the 18th Congress, marking an important political transition period preceding the Senate election |
| May 2022 | Rafael Zagos, former Bureau of Corrections director general, recanted his previous testimony against Leila de Lima, withdrawing his earlier claim that she accepted 5 million pesos from drug lord Peter Co during her time as Secretary of Justice. |
| May 2022 | Lorenzo Leviste publicly criticized his mother Loren Legarda for running under the UniTeam slate of Bongbong Marcos, expressing his disgust in a Rappler column. |
| May 2022 | Labor and Ecology Advocates for Democracy removed Agnes Bailen from their electoral slate. |
| May 2022 | Iglesia ni Cristo religious organization released its official endorsements for the senatorial election via an announcement on Net 25. |
| May 18 2022 | The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) proclaimed the winning senators for the 2022 Philippine Senate election, officially confirming the results after the last certificate of canvass from Lanao del Sur was processed. |
| May 9 2022 | The 34th Philippine Senate election was held, with 12 Senate seats contested for a six-year term from 2022 to 2028. |
| May 8 2022 | Election eve, campaign silence begins. |
| May 7 2022 | Official campaign period ends two days before the election. |
| April 2022 | Migz Zubiri was dropped from the Lacson-Sotto slate after he publicly endorsed Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at a rally in his home province of Bukidnon. |
| April 18 2022 | MBC–DZRH poll conducted for the 2022 Philippine Senate election |
| April 15 2022 | Campaigning prohibited on Good Friday. |
| April 14 2022 | Campaigning prohibited on Maundy Thursday. |
| April 2 2022 | OCTA polling period reveals continued political landscape assessment |
| March 30 2022 | Publicus Asia begins another polling period, tracking potential shifts in voter support |
| March 24 2022 | Panfilo Lacson left Reporma party and returned to being an independent candidate. |
| March 17 2022 | Multiple polling organizations (MBC-DZRH, RMN-APCORE, Pulse Asia) conduct simultaneous surveys, indicating consistent voter trends |
| March 17 2022 | Pulse Asia conducts a poll examining the potential candidates for the Philippine Senate election |
| March 11 2022 | Sara Duterte clarified that Robin Padilla is a guest candidate for the UniTeam slate. |
| March 9 2022 | Publicus Asia continues monitoring voter preferences and political alignments |
| February 24 2022 | Aksyon Demokratiko adopted John Castriciones of the PDP–Laban Cusi wing as a guest candidate, following an endorsement from a Duterte volunteer group. |
| February 18 2022 | Pulse Asia conducted a poll for the 2022 Philippine Senate election |
| February 16 2022 | Sara Duterte announced Robin Padilla as the 12th and last member of the slate, though the Marcos camp later disputed his official inclusion. |
| February 12 2022 | OCTA polling period begins, tracking support for various political slates and individual candidates |
| February 11 2022 | Publicus Asia conducts polling, revealing early trends in voter preferences for Senate candidates |
| February 9 2022 | First polling period begins for the 2022 Philippine Senate election, with initial surveys conducted by I&AC showing early political landscape |
| February 8 2022 | Official start of campaign period for the 2022 Philippine Senate election, with coalitions expected to release their 12-person candidate slates. |
| February 5 2022 | UniTeam added former Information and Communications Technology secretary Gregorio Honasan as the eleventh person on their senatorial slate. |
| January 20 2022 | UniTeam alliance released their initial 10-person Senate slate for the 2022 Philippine Senate election. |
| January 19 2022 | Pulse Asia conducted a poll surveying potential Senate election candidates |
| January 19 2022 | 1Sambayan endorsed 7 Senate candidates from Leni Robredo's ticket and later endorsed Neri Colmenares, who was not originally included in Robredo's slate. |
| 2021 | Ralph Recto considered swapping positions with his wife, Vilma Santos, potentially running for congressman in Batangas's 6th district. |
| 2021 | Tito Sotto expressed openness to running for vice president as Senator Panfilo Lacson's running mate. |
| 2021 | Franklin Drilon announced plans to retire from politics after his term ends, contingent on potential roles in the succeeding administration. |
| 2021 | Senator Panfilo Lacson reported that an alleged plot to oust Tito Sotto from the Senate presidency failed to gather the required 13 votes to proceed. |
| December 11 2021 | MBC–DZRH poll conducted for the upcoming 2022 Philippine Senate election |
| November 13 2021 | Bong Go switched from PDP-Laban to PDDS party when he ran for president. |
| October 2021 | Francis Pangilinan was selected as Leni Robredo's running mate for vice president. |
| October 22 2021 | Robredo announced Sonny Matula as the 12th person in her Senate slate, completing the 'Team Robredo–Pangilinan' (TRoPa) lineup. |
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