CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE

ELECTION PERIOD
(January 10, 2016 to June 8, 2016)
FROM TO ACTIVITY
MARCH 2016
Last day to file application to avail of local
March 7 (Monday)
absentee voting
Last day for the Committee on Local
March 10 (Thursday) Absentee Voting (CLAV) to receive
application forms for local absentee voting
Issuance or sending of notices of inspection
March 24
March 11 (Friday and verification of completeness of the
(Thursday)
precinct book of voters
GPC LEGAL TEAM’S NATIONAL
March 12 (Saturday)
CONVENTION
April 9 Inspection, verification and sealing of the
March 25 (Friday)
(Saturday) precinct book of voters
Campaign period for candidates for Member
May 7
March 25 (Friday) of House of Representatives, and elective
(Saturday)
regional, provincial, city, municipal officials
Last day to post notice of the date, time and
place of testing and sealing of Optical Mark
Readers (OMR)/ Vote Counting Machines
(VCM) for overseas voting
March 25 (Friday)
Last day to notify the Special Board of
Election Inspectors concerned of the date,
time, and place of the testing and sealing of
OMR/VCM for overseas voting
APRIL 2016
Last day to furnish every registered voter with
April 9 (Saturday)
a Voter’s Information Sheet
April 9 (Saturday) Casting of votes by overseas voters
Last day to verify whether the applicant for
April 15 (Friday) local absentee voting is eligible to vote as
local absentee voter
Last day to prepare list of qualified local
April 15 (Friday)
absentee voters
Last day for CLAV to send list of qualified
local absentee voters, local absentee ballots
and other election paraphernalia to all
April 21 (Thursday) concerned heads of offices
Constitution of Special Board of Election
Inspectors (SBEI) for local absentee voting
 Last day to post notice of the date, time and
place of testing and sealing of OMR/VCM
April 22 (Friday) Last day to notify the BEI concerned of the
date, time and place of the testing and sealing
of the OMR/VCM
April 27
April 29 (Friday) Voting by local absentee voters
(Wednesday)
Constitution of the Special Board of
April 30 (Saturday)
Canvassers (SBOC) for local absentee voting
MAY 2016
May 2 (Monday) May 6 (Friday) Testing and sealing of the OMR or VCM
May 8 (Sunday) EVE OF ELECTION DAY
ELECTION DAY

Casting of votes and, thereafter counting and

consolidation of votes
Convening of the Municipal/City/District,
Provincial and Regional Boards of
Canvassers, National Board of Canvassers
(NBOC) for Senators and Party-List Election,
and thereafter, consolidation and canvassing
May 9 (Monday) of votes (5:00 PM)
Last day for CLAV to receive envelopes
containing the local absentee ballots (Up to
7:00 PM)
Start of counting of local absentee votes
(From 7:00 PM until finished)
Convening of the SBOC for local absentee
voting (7:00 PM)
Count precinct results and proclaim winning
city/municipal elective officials
Period within which the Election Officers (EO)
shall advise in writing, by personal delivery or
registered mail, all candidates residing in his
May 9 (Monday) May 13 (Friday)
jurisdiction to comply with their obligation to
file their Sworn Statements of Election
Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE)
Canvass results and proclaim winners for
May 15
May 13 (Friday) senatorial, congressional, party-list, regional
(Sunday)
and provincial elections
JUNE 2016
June 8 (Wednesday) Last day to file SOCE