Section 9Sec./Art. 9

Regular Elections for Provincial, Sub-provincial, City, Municipal and Municipal District Offices. - On the second Monday of November, nineteen hundred and seventy-one and on the same day every four years thereafter, a regular election shall be held to elect the officials who will occupy all elective provincial, sub-provincial, city, municipal and municipal district offices throughout the Philippines. After the elections of nineteen hundred and seventy-one, only qualified voters in the municipalities of the province in which they are located can vote for elective officials of the province, except those in cities where the governing body consists of the governor and the provincial board of the province.

The officials elected shall assume office on the first day of January next following and shall hold office for four years and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, unless the provisions of the second paragraph of Section seventeen hereof apply.