As mandated by RA 7166 (in Section 2), which was approved into law in 26 November 1995, the next synchronized National and Local Elections (NLE) will happen on the second Monday of May, the 13th, in the year 2019.
Due to RA 10153, which was approved into law in 30 June 2011, the ARMM elections was also synchronized with the 2019 NLE.
Pursuant to RA 9369, the May 2019 NLE will again be fully automated, as it was with the May 2010 NLE, 2013 NLE and with the May 2016 NLE, from:
- the counting of votes in the precincts;
- the consolidation of the precinct results;
- the transmission of precinct results to the corresponding city/municipality canvassing board;
- the canvassing of precinct results in the district, city, municipal levels;
- the proclamation of winning candidates in the district, city, municipal levels;
- the transmission of the district, city, municipal canvassing results to the provincial canvassing board, and of the highly urbanized city results to the national canvassing board;
- the canvassing of city/municipal results in the provincial level;
- the proclamation of winning candidates in the provincial level;
- the transmission of the highly urbanized city and provincial results to the national canvassing board; and
- the canvassing of provincial and highly urbanized city results, including overseas results, in the national level.