 For the first time since the People Power Revolution, a party won majority of the seats in the House; Lakas had a seat over the majority.This is also the first Philippine elections that included the party-list system.However, with Joseph Estrada of the opposition Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino (LAMMP; an electoral alliance between the Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), the NPC and the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP)) winning the presidential election, the majority of the elected Lakas-NUCD-UMDP congressmen switched sides to LAMMP.