Sultan Mastura
Sultan Mastura is a municipality of Maguindanao del Norte, in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. It is divided into 13 barangays, and had 30,828 residents at the 2024 census.
- Province
- Maguindanao del Norte
- Classification
- Municipality
- Barangays
- 13
- PSGC code
- 153824000
30,828
Population (2024)
242.07 km²
Land area
127
People per km²
+21.7%
Change since 2020
Governed under
- Bangsamoro Autonomy Act 49 — Bangsamoro Local Governance Code of 2023Enacted September 28, 2023. The governing code inside BARMM: it creates the offices described here, fixes their terms and pay, and devolves the services. It repealed the ARMM code it replaced.
- Implementing Rules and Regulations of the BLGCPromulgated September 30, 2025. 696 articles setting out how the Code is carried out — the procedures, deadlines and rate ceilings quoted on this page.
- Republic Act 7160 — Local Government Code of 1991The national code. Inside BARMM it applies only where the Bangsamoro one is silent.
Sultan Mastura's share of Maguindanao del Norte
4.2%
The rest of Maguindanao del Norte
The record
- Population, 2024 census
- 30,828
- Population, 2020 census
- 25,331
- Change, 2020 to 2024
- +21.7% (5,497 people)
- Land area
- 242.07 km²
- Population density
- 127 per km²
- Barangays
- 13
- Average barangay population
- 2,371
- Share of Maguindanao del Norte
- 4.2%
Reading it
Population is the count as of July 1, 2024, the reference date of the 2024 Census of Population. The 2020 figure is from the census before it, so the change covers 4 years rather than a single year.
Density is the census population over the land area on record. It is a flat average: a coastal town whose people all live along one road will read the same as one spread evenly across its hills.
Average barangay population divides the total across every barangay equally, which no municipality actually does — it is useful for comparing units, not for describing one.
All barangays
13
01BalutPUASA, SAMBOL;AYANG MAGARANG10
Punong Barangay
PUASA, SAMBOL;AYANG MAGARANG
SK Chairperson
SAPAL, ELLA BORERO
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- HUSAIN, HASNA MALA
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1MAMOKAN, ANWAR RUMANGGAL
- 2PUSDAN, ZUBAIDA ALI
- 3KHUTA, MUSLIMA MONTANER
- 4ABBAS, YUSOP GUIAMEL
- 5PANDARAT, RAUL GALAKAL
- 6MAMA, BAIRA SALI
- 7ABE, ALFALLAH SULAIMAN
02BoliokABO, MURAD SALIK10
Punong Barangay
ABO, MURAD SALIK
SK Chairperson
ABO, SAMSIA TALIN
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- TALIN, SULAIMAN EMAN
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1AKMAD, KADIR ABBAS
- 2SABAN, ABDULLAH KUSIN
- 3EBRAHIM, GUINAID SINDATOK
- 4EDZER, MAMA EDZER
- 5MUSA, HASIM ANTON
- 6ABBAS, MASTURA SANSALUNA
- 7BANTAS, RONIE LAUSAN
03BungabongGUMANDER, THOHAMIE KARIM10
Punong Barangay
GUMANDER, THOHAMIE KARIM
SK Chairperson
KABUNTO, ZUKRI BULANAN
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- UBA, ZULAIKA SUKOR
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1BARASADDAM, SADDAM BULANAN
- 2GUIRA, MONTASIR GUMANDER
- 3SAGULAMA, ONOS MAKARIMBANG
- 4DANGKAY, USMAN GUIAPAR
- 5BULANAN, MUSTAPHA GAMBAYAN
- 6GUMANDER, KARDING BALABAGAN
- 7SUBNGAN, MIKE KABUNTO
04DaguronganTARIWASAY, SAMMY BANOG10
Punong Barangay
TARIWASAY, SAMMY BANOG
SK Chairperson
MUSA, MARLA ALI
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- LAGYAL, HILDA MANTAWIL
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1NONONGAN, ROMEO OMAR
- 2ABAT, BASIT MOKHALID
- 3SALIK, GANSON AYOB
- 4ALIMAN, NORODIN MALIGA
- 5KASAN, BAINOR MANGGO
- 6ACOL, MALIK MALABANG
- 7KARA, JIMMY UMBONG
05KirkirMALA, TAHA AHMAD10
Punong Barangay
MALA, TAHA AHMAD
SK Chairperson
NAMRA, ABOHURAIRA GAMPONG
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- ABDULLAH, NASRUDIN PALON
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1MAULANA, MUSA GAPOR
- 2HUSSIEN, ZACARIA SAKLAO
- 3ABDULLAH, NORODIN PALON
- 4ESMAEL, ABDULWAHID MAULANA
- 5PIANG, ESMAEL TAMBILAWAN
- 6ARA, JUHARY ABUTALIB
- 7PIANG, SAMMY KASAN
06MacabicoPANANSARAN, ABDULBASIT KURIDTEM10
Punong Barangay
PANANSARAN, ABDULBASIT KURIDTEM
SK Chairperson
DURON, ANALYN BORDALLO
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- ABDULRASHID, NORHAINA MALA
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1MANISI, ALEX MATABALAO
- 2CUETO, BENIGNO CODILLA JR.
- 3ANOK, ALEX SALISIP
- 4MANDALANO, NOLAN SANTILLANO
- 5CUETO, JUPITER BOREROS
- 6BACAR, SADAT ALIMPANG
- 7ALIMPANG, MOCTHAR MAMA
07NamukenIBRHAIM, MUHAJIREN TALUSOB10
Punong Barangay
IBRHAIM, MUHAJIREN TALUSOB
SK Chairperson
PALACALA, DATU MAROUF JAPAL
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- MALA, ANISA SAILI
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1ADAM, MUSTAPHA ABDUL
- 2GUIMBA, MELANIE ARA
- 3MALA, ALVIN HASIM
- 4BURADTONG, ALIMODEN ABDULLAH
- 5BENITO, FAISAL EBRAHIM
- 6IBRAHIM, HAMIR MUSA
- 7KUDARAT, MICKEY SALIK
08Simuay/SeashoreIBRAHIM, NOR GAMPONG10
Punong Barangay
IBRAHIM, NOR GAMPONG
SK Chairperson
GAMPONG, MUSA GERVACIO
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- AMILIL, BAI AIJELETH WAYA
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1ORO, KAMLON DANIAL
- 2EDTO, OTING KUDARAT
- 3KADA, SAIDEN ENDER
- 4BANSIL, MOSIBA BARONDON
- 5KADIR, GUIARISA DAWAN
- 6PAGALALA, SOLAIMAN BINATARA
- 7MAMENDEG, REX MAYO
09SolonMUSTAPHA, KHOMEINI PANDA10
Punong Barangay
MUSTAPHA, KHOMEINI PANDA
SK Chairperson
MUSTAPHA, YASSER TAPOL
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- LAGUIAWAN, QUEENIE DAGAN
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1MULOD, NASSER PATADON
- 2UDTONG, MAMA ANOB
- 3ALONGAN, ALEX MACMOD
- 4ZAINAL, ALI MUSA
- 5GUMBA, ABDULKARIM LINTOKAN
- 6PALAMELA, HONASAN SALIPADA
- 7MENOK, KHOMENIE IMAM
10TamboKASAN, YUSOPH KONSER10
Punong Barangay
KASAN, YUSOPH KONSER
SK Chairperson
ABAS, HANIEN KINTANA
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- ARIMAO, NASRODIN SILO
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1AMIR, NASRUDIN MACAMPAN
- 2ALI, TAIB USMAN
- 3KADIR, LIDASAN MANDI
- 4KONSER, ESMAEL KASAN
- 5ALI, MAMA ARSAD
- 6DAUD, MASHOD SAKLAO
- 7ANGINTAOPAN, KASAN ADAM
11TapayanBILALANG, ROLAND SIAMAN10
Punong Barangay
BILALANG, ROLAND SIAMAN
SK Chairperson
MALANG, RAHIMA ALI
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- PALAMI, ABDULSATAR SUMAEL
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1MAMAD, ABDUL BAUDA
- 2SIAMAN, HARIS AKMAD
- 3BATAO, RASHED NATE
- 4ABID, TOTIK RAGONDO
- 5KUSAIN, OTING GUIAPAR
- 6BANAG, MOSIB KAMSA
- 7PALAMI, SABILA SIAMAN
12TarikenODIN, ABDULGANI PULA10
Punong Barangay
ODIN, ABDULGANI PULA
SK Chairperson
ABDULLAH, ASNAH BARAGUIR
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- ALI, MOTHMAINA ALONGAN
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1ODIN, SALAM KASIM
- 2ODIN, KANAPIA LABUNGAN
- 3SOLAIMAN, ABUBAKAR GAMPONG
- 4IBRAHIM, SARIHAN NAKAN
- 5LABUNGAN, DATUNIEL PASAWILAN
- 6ABDULAZIZ, ABDULGAPOR MALIGA
- 7MAMA, ZACARIA
13TukaMALA, SAINODIN10
Punong Barangay
MALA, SAINODIN
SK Chairperson
SAPALON, DESIREE MAULANA
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- MAULANA, LUCMAN KASIM
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1SOLAIMAN, DARIO KANDA
- 2OGAK, MASTURA UTOK
- 3LATIPH, ALLAN SALISIP
- 4ADAM, TOCAO BRA
- 5ABDULLAH, FATIMA OKANG
- 6TIPAS, MARIAM UTE
- 7QUIRINO, MAGUID MAMA
Each barangay is its own local government unit with an elected punong barangay and council. The code beside a name is its PSGC identifier — the number every national record uses for that barangay.
Officials are from DILG’s Barangay Officials Directory as it stood on 2026-09-26; 13 of these 13 barangays have an entry in it. DILG publishes no term alongside the names and updates the directory as barangays report, so a name here is the last one filed rather than a guarantee of who holds the office today. DILG’s directory also carries contact details, which are not repeated here.
The office since 2001
2 surnames- 2025–2028MASTURA, ARMANDOLAKAS
- 2022–2025PANDA, BONGUBJP
- 2019–2022MASTURA, RAUFheldPDPLBN
- 2016–2019MASTURA, RAUFheldUNA
- 2013–2016MASTURA, RAUFheldPDP
- 2010–2013MASTURA, ARMANDO T.heldNPC
- 2007–2010MASTURA, ARMANDO TALUSANheldNPC
- 2004–2007MASTURA, ARMANDO TALUSANLAKAS-CMD
- 2001–2004not in the record
“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↗Mayor
MASTURA, ARMANDO
LAKAS6,187 votes41.18%
5 other candidates
- 02PANDA, DOC BONGUBJP5,90539.3%
- 03CALUDTIAG, BAILABIITIHAD2,40916.03%
- 04PANDA, SAADAIND3572.38%
- 05SAMAL, DATU HARRISPDPLBN1340.89%
- 06GUIMBA, MERLAIND320.21%
Vice-Mayor
BURADTONG, BAPA MAIL
UBJP5,189 votes35.01%
5 other candidates
- 02AMIR, ANDYLAKAS3,37422.77%
- 03UGOKAN, ABNERIND3,16321.34%
- 04PANGAL, BONGITIHAD1,51010.19%
- 05KUDARAT, ABASPDPLBN1,0837.31%
- 06MAMBAYAO-SILO, BAICANIND5013.38%
Sangguniang Bayan
8 elected of 52 candidates
- 01ABDULHAMID, MAULANAUBJP5,8245.77%
- 02ALONGAN, ASLAMUBJP5,5135.47%
- 03SIAMAN, ESMAELLAKAS5,2385.19%
- 04ABBAS, YUSOPUBJP4,8114.77%
- 05MALA, SWEBBLAKAS4,3394.3%
- 06ODIN, SADATLAKAS3,9983.96%
- 07PANGAL, JOHARILAKAS3,7993.77%
- 08MUSTAPHA, PAISALLAKAS3,7943.76%
44 not elected
- 09MAMAD, MARGANILAKAS3,7873.75%
- 10MACAUNDAR, ABOUBJP3,7743.74%
- 11SIMBAN, NORAIMAIND3,6393.61%
- 12BEDU, KALILAKAS3,5643.53%
- 13MALA, AYOBUBJP3,1233.1%
- 14CAYUGAN, RAHIBIND2,8612.84%
- 15CANDAO, DATU KHAIUBJP2,8502.83%
- 16DIMA, ABDULRAUFLAKAS2,8122.79%
- 17LABUNGAN, SUHARTOUBJP2,6362.61%
- 18AMIL, MADAM TITAUBJP2,1052.09%
- 19BALABAGAN, ARMANDOPDPLBN2,0712.05%
- 20SAWAL, GANIPDPLBN2,0492.03%
- 21ALONGAN, ABDULRADZAKITIHAD1,7861.77%
- 22ALONGAN, RENEITIHAD1,7011.69%
- 23TUMBAS, JULHANI IIIIND1,6861.67%
- 24ABEDIN, MARIAMITIHAD1,5051.49%
- 25DANSALAN, EBRAHIMITIHAD1,4891.48%
- 26DARPING, KAGIITIHAD1,4731.46%
- 27MACACUA, FARIDAIND1,4101.4%
- 28RIGA, BINGITIHAD1,3861.37%
- 29ABDULNASSER, MOHAMMADIND1,3791.37%
- 30SASAO, NORJAMENITIHAD1,2801.27%
- 31BALABAGAN, MOHAMMADIND1,1721.16%
- 32LIDASAN, MALIKITIHAD1,1411.13%
- 33DATUMANONG, DATUKLOIND1,1221.11%
- 34ABID, GAMPONGIND1,0651.06%
- 35CANDAO, BAIPDPLBN9710.96%
- 36EBRAHIM, NORAIDAIND9360.93%
- 37MALA, SABREIND8300.82%
- 38GOMONSANG, MACMODPDPLBN7350.73%
- 39SEMA, ABDULHANIND6710.67%
- 40MOKALID, AHMADIND6430.64%
- 41SABAN, BAPA BNEPDPLBN5720.57%
- 42KASAN, ZACARIAIND5360.53%
- 43ESMAIL, NHORDSIND4560.45%
- 44ADIR, NOR-AININD4290.43%
- 45SILO, ABDULLAHIND3980.39%
- 46BULANAN, SOMAYAIND3800.38%
- 47STALKER, SHEREENIND2580.26%
- 48TUNGAN, TURBOIND2580.26%
- 49BENITO, LEEKIND1650.16%
- 50KAMSA, ANSARIEIND1580.16%
- 51RAJAHTUNAS, AMIRIND1440.14%
- 52MOHAMAD, DADTONGIND1420.14%
And for Maguindanao del Norte as a whole
Provincial Governor
MASTURA, DATU TUCAO
PFP199,049 votes72.3%
1 other candidate
- 02MANGUDADATU, TENGITIHAD76,26027.7%
Provincial Vice-Governor
SINSUAT, MARSHALL
UBJP198,233 votes73.23%
1 other candidate
- 02SINSUAT, BAI AINEEPFP72,46126.77%
What a municipality is responsible for.
These services are devolved to this level by the Bangsamoro Local Governance Code, so they describe what Sultan Masturais mandated to provide — not an inventory of what its offices currently run. For opening hours and requirements, the unit’s own hall is the source.
Health
01- Rural health units, health centers and barangay health stations
- Primary health care, maternal and child care, communicable disease control
- Purchase of medicines and medical supplies
Social services
02- Day care centers and child and family welfare
- Programs for women, the elderly and persons with disabilities
- Nutrition, family planning and community-based rehabilitation
Infrastructure and public works
03- Municipal or city roads, bridges, drainage and flood control
- School buildings, health centers, public markets and slaughterhouses
- Water supply systems and communal irrigation
- Sites for the police and fire stations and the municipal jail
Permits, records and regulation
04- Business permits and licensing
- Building permits and zoning enforcement
- Civil registry — birth, marriage and death certificates
- Real property assessment and tax collection
- Reclassifying farmland — capped at 15% of the town’s agricultural land, 10% or 5% in smaller classes
Agriculture, environment and safety
05- Agricultural extension, seed farms and fisheries
- Solid waste collection and disposal
- Community-based forestry projects
- Fire and police coordination, and disaster risk reduction
And at the barangay
Frontline services
- Barangay clearance and certificates of residency and indigency
- Barangay health station and day care center
- Katarungang Pambarangay — a lupon of 10 to 20 members mediates disputes before they reach court
Community
- Barangay tanod and peace and order at street level — one tanod per 200 residents, 30 at most
- Maintenance of barangay roads, footpaths and water supply
- Solid waste segregation at source
- Agricultural support — planting materials and farm produce collection and buying stations
Money it handles
- A tax of up to 1% on stores with gross sales under ₱50,000 in a city or ₱30,000 in a municipality
- Its share of the real property tax — 25% of what the province collects on property in it
- 10% of its general fund set aside for the Sangguniang Kabataan
- Its own annual budget, reviewed by the city or municipal council within 90 days
And what you pay it.
These are the ceilings the Bangsamoro Local Governance Code and its implementing rules set on what a municipality and its barangays may charge, with the deadlines that go with them. Sultan Mastura sets its own rates by ordinance and may charge less, so treat these as the most it can be rather than the bill — the hall has the ordinance.
Community tax certificate — the cedula
IRR arts. 452, 454
₱20, plus ₱1 for every ₱1,000 of income, up to ₱5,000 in all
Accrues 1 January, due by the last day of February. 24% a year on what is late.
Real property tax — the amilyar
IRR arts. 530, 531, 540, 541
Up to 1% of assessed value in a province, up to 2% in a city, plus 1% for the Special Education Fund
In full by 31 March, or in four instalments due 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December. Up to 20% off for paying early.
Business tax
IRR arts. 439, 444
Graduated by gross sales — a retailer pays 2% on the first ₱400,000 and 1% above it
Within the first 20 days of January, or of each quarter.
Professional tax
IRR art. 447
Up to ₱1,300 a year, and it covers practice anywhere in the country
By 31 January, or before you begin to practice.
Transfer of land
IRR art. 437
Up to 0.5% of the price or the fair market value, whichever is higher
Within 60 days of the deed, or of the death of the owner.
Barangay clearance
IRR art. 457
A reasonable fee the barangay council sets by ordinance
On application. The barangay also collects a store tax of up to 1% from the smallest shops.
Filing a complaint at the barangay
IRR arts. 64, 65, 78
Free — the katarungang pambarangay charges no filing fee
Mediation runs 15 days, then 15 more before the pangkat.
Paying any local tax late
IRR art. 459
A surcharge of up to 25%, plus up to 2% a month, capped at 36 months
Runs from the day the tax fell due.
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.