Basilan
Excludes the City of Isabela, which sits on Basilan island but is administered under Region IX rather than BARMM.
541,947
Population (2024)
12
Cities and municipalities
210
Barangays
—
Land area
Basilan's share of BARMM
12.5%
The rest of the region
+27.2% since the 2020 census
Largest: Lamitan, Maluso, Sumisip
Who runs Basilan.
The office since 2001
5 surnames- 2025–2028HATAMAN, MUJIVBUP
- 2022–2025HATAMAN-SALLIMAN, JIMPDPLBN
- 2019–2022SALLIMAN, HATAMAN JIMheldPDPLBN
- 2016–2019SALLIMAN, HATAMAN JIMLP
- 2013–2016AKBAR, JUMheldLP
- 2010–2013AKBAR, JUM J.LAKAS-CMD
- 2007–2010JAINUDDIN, JUMLP
- 2004–2007AKBAR, WAHABheldLAKAS-CMD
- 2001–2004AKBAR, WAHAB M.PMP
“Held” marks a term whose office-holder shares a surname with the term before it. Surnames, not people — a seat passing between relatives reads the same here as one person re-elected, and in most of these towns it is the more common of the two.
2025 National and Local Elections · elected May 12, 2025 · in office June 30, 2025 to June 30, 2028
COMELEC — 2025 election results, Certificates of Canvass↗Provincial Governor
HATAMAN, MUJIV
BUP121,829 votes50.5%
2 other candidates
- 02SALLIMAN, JAY HATAMANPFP118,55449.14%
- 03MUTAMAD, OSAMAPDR8560.35%
Provincial Vice-Governor
HATAMAN SALLIMAN, JIM
PFP151,236 votes66.26%
1 other candidate
- 02SATTAR, ALZADBUP76,99833.74%
Sangguniang Panlalawigan
FIRST PROVDIST
9 candidates, in order of votes. The number of seats on a provincial board varies, so this list is the canvass rather than a declaration of who was elected.
Full tally
- 01SALAIN, NASSERPFP65,14119.03%
- 02ISMAEL, ALLETPFP56,42616.49%
- 03HATAMAN, AMINBUP49,98714.6%
- 04JAAFAR, FAIGDARBUP47,83613.98%
- 05EPPING, BIMBOBUP38,45411.23%
- 06BIEL, ALAN RITCHIE LUISPFP37,59110.98%
- 07AMPING, RAMLYPFP32,3619.45%
- 08HAKIMIN, NURBUP10,9133.19%
- 09HADJIRUL, PATTAIND3,5681.04%
SECOND PROVDIST
11 candidates, in order of votes. The number of seats on a provincial board varies, so this list is the canvass rather than a declaration of who was elected.
Full tally
- 01ASARUL, MIKOPFP89,91313.82%
- 02ISTARUL, NUR-KHANPFP89,62713.78%
- 03SAKKALAHUL, KEEMHAR JAYPFP88,58613.62%
- 04HANTIAN, RONIEBUP83,58312.85%
- 05AKBAR, NUR-INLAKAS71,03910.92%
- 06HATAMAN, JUHANIND62,1829.56%
- 07HATAMAN, NAJIBBUP55,7908.58%
- 08HATAMAN, MARWANPFP54,9938.46%
- 09IDRIS, KASIMIND35,1705.41%
- 10DINIL, JAMESPDPLBN16,7872.58%
- 11JALIL, SHINGPDPLBN2,7370.42%
Every city in Basilan
1
Every municipality in Basilan
11
Akbar
Mayor SALI, ALIH
- Population
- 27,911
- Barangays
- 9
Al-Barka
Mayor LAJID, JAYDEEFAR
- Population
- 30,318
- Barangays
- 16
Hadji Mohammad Ajul
Mayor PAWAKI, TALIB
- Population
- 32,806
- Barangays
- 11
Hadji Muhtamad
Mayor NANOH, ARSINA
- Population
- 30,122
- Barangays
- 10
Lantawan
Mayor ABUBAKAR, NASSER
- Population
- 48,777
- Barangays
- 25
Maluso
Mayor HATAMAN, KAISER
- Population
- 66,817
- Barangays
- 20
Sumisip
Mayor HATAMAN, JUL-ADNAN
- Population
- 55,778
- Barangays
- 29
Tabuan-Lasa
Mayor MANISAN, MONER
- Population
- 38,964
- Barangays
- 12
Tipo-Tipo
Mayor ISTARUL, INGATUN
- Population
- 32,734
- Barangays
- 11
Tuburan
Mayor KALLAHAL, DURIE
- Population
- 30,027
- Barangays
- 10
Ungkaya Pukan
Mayor MATURAN, JOMAR
- Population
- 31,041
- Barangays
- 12
About these figures
Structure from the Philippine Standard Geographic Code; population and land area from Wikidata, which carries PSA’s census figures with their census dates. Population is the 2024 Census of Population. Elected officials are the winners in COMELEC’s 2025 Certificates of Canvass, holding office to June 30, 2028.
Sulu is excluded: the Supreme Court removed it from BARMM. PSA census totals that still count Sulu will therefore be larger than the totals here. Cotabato City is listed as an area of its own, though PSA files it inside Maguindanao del Norte — the provincial figure here has the city taken out of it so the two are not counted twice. Province land area is the province’s own published figure, never a sum of its municipalities: Philippine municipal areas are self-reported and overlap, so they do not add up to the province they sit in. A blank is a fact about the record, not a zero.
A dash means the record has no figure — not a zero. Boundaries and office-holders change; where this differs from an official page, the official page is right.