Tawi-Tawi
482,645
Population (2024)
11
Municipalities
203
Barangays
1,087.4 km²
Land area
Tawi-Tawi's share of BARMM
11.1%
The rest of the region
444 people per km²
+9.6% since the 2020 census
Largest: Bongao, Panglima Sugala, Sitangkai
Who runs Tawi-Tawi.
The office since 2001
3 surnames- 2025–2028SALI, YSHMAELheldPFP
- 2022–2025SALI, MANGheldTOP
- 2019–2022SALI, YSHMAELNUP
- 2016–2019MATBA, RASHNUP
- 2013–2016SAHALI, NURBERTheldLP
- 2010–2013SAHALI, SADIKUL A.heldLAKAS-CMD
- 2007–2010SAHALI, SADIKULheldLAKAS-CMD
- 2004–2007SAHALI, SADIKULPMP
- 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↗Provincial Governor
SALI, YSHMAEL
PFP133,217 votes67.87%
1 other candidate
- 02SAHALI, RUBYAKSYON63,07832.13%
Provincial Vice-Governor
SALI, AL-SYED
PFP142,259 votes76.96%
1 other candidate
- 02LIPAE, ALGARADAKSYON42,59423.04%
Sangguniang Panlalawigan
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
- 01MASDAL, MELHANPFP46,39617.99%
- 02MOHAMMAD ALI, ALSHIDPFP37,66614.6%
- 03MOHAMMAD MONEL, JONELPFP35,01613.58%
- 04LADJABASSAL, ALFILIND34,92813.54%
- 05ISHMAEL, SIR JAMZPFP25,1419.75%
- 06BAWASANTA, MAHMUDIND20,8838.1%
- 07ABDULMUNAP, AL-KHALIDAKSYON17,1586.65%
- 08MAING, MARTINAKSYON13,0605.06%
- 09HABE, NASSERAKSYON11,9104.62%
- 10BAWASANTA, YASMINAKSYON9,7523.78%
- 11SALIH, ALANOIND6,0202.33%
FIRST 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
- 01AKIP, RODELIND67,00716.38%
- 02SAMSUYA, MARK RENILPFP57,15513.97%
- 03LADJAHALI, PAPAYPFP52,63812.86%
- 04ABDURAHMAN, ERSHADPFP52,26112.77%
- 05AHAJA, TATIPFP50,76412.41%
- 06AHAMAD, ARRON FHADZPDPLBN42,75110.45%
- 07JUMDAIL, ALNAZIRAKSYON25,8706.32%
- 08TIANOK, PATTA JR.AKSYON16,6454.07%
- 09YUSOP, SALIMIND16,3113.99%
- 10JAMAL, HABIBAKSYON15,2443.73%
- 11PILIHAN, HANSAMAKSYON12,5523.07%
Every municipality in Tawi-Tawi
11
Bongao
Mayor QUE, JASPER
- Population
- 131,887
- Barangays
- 35
Languyan
Mayor SALI, ABDUHASAN
- Population
- 41,587
- Barangays
- 20
Mapun
Mayor MUKSIN, SURAIDA
- Population
- 29,218
- Barangays
- 15
Panglima Sugala
Mayor SAHALI, NURBERT
- Population
- 52,657
- Barangays
- 17
Sapa-Sapa
Mayor SALI, ODET
- Population
- 37,129
- Barangays
- 23
Sibutu
Mayor AHAJA, NUR FITRA
- Population
- 38,070
- Barangays
- 16
Simunul
Mayor TIDAL, MADI
- Population
- 35,616
- Barangays
- 15
Sitangkai
Mayor AHAJA, ALLAN
- Population
- 42,172
- Barangays
- 9
South Ubian
Mayor MATBA, HADZRI
- Population
- 31,942
- Barangays
- 31
Tandubas
Mayor SALIH, AL-SHALID
- Population
- 34,702
- Barangays
- 20
Turtle Islands
Mayor JAMALUL, JAY SAYANG
- Population
- 7,665
- Barangays
- 2
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.