Short answer. Yes. Grave coercion normally carries prisión correccional and a fine up to ₱100,000 under the amounts set by Republic Act No. 10951, but Article 286 raises that to the next higher penalty when the coercion is committed to violate someone's right of suffrage — meaning to stop them from voting, or to force them to vote a particular way.
What the law says
The penalty of prisión correccional and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000) shall be imposed upon any person who, without any authority of law, shall, by means of violence, threats, or intimidation, prevent another from doing something not prohibited by law, or compel him to do something against his will, whether it be right or wrong.
Revised Penal Code, Article 286 — Grave Coercions. Read the full provision →
What the law says
If the coercion be committed in violation of the exercise of the right of suffrage, or for the purpose of compelling another to perform any religious act, or to prevent him from exercising such right or from so doing such act, the penalty next higher in degree shall be imposed.
Revised Penal Code, Article 286 — Grave Coercions. Read the full provision →
What counts as grave coercion in the first place
The base offense is broad. It punishes "any person who, without any authority of law, shall, by means of violence, threats, or intimidation, prevent another from doing something not prohibited by law, or compel him to do something against his will, whether it be right or wrong." That base offense carries "the penalty of prisión correccional and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000)." That ₱100,000 ceiling reflects the amounts set by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which revised the fines and property values used throughout the Revised Penal Code.
The heavier penalty when it targets someone's right to vote
The article carves out a specific aggravated scenario. It states that "If the coercion be committed in violation of the exercise of the right of suffrage, or for the purpose of compelling another to perform any religious act, or to prevent him from exercising such right or from so doing such act, the penalty next higher in degree shall be imposed." Coercion aimed at stopping someone from voting, or at forcing them to vote a particular way, falls squarely within that heavier bracket, right alongside coercion aimed at someone's exercise of religion, which the same sentence also covers.
What "the penalty next higher in degree" means
The Revised Penal Code arranges its penalties on a fixed scale, running from lighter penalties up through increasingly severe ones. The penalty next higher in degree moves the case one step up that scale from ordinary prisión correccional, rather than simply enlarging the fine or extending the same range of imprisonment. In practical terms, this means someone convicted of coercion committed to stop another person from voting faces a harsher range of imprisonment than someone convicted of the same coercion committed for an ordinary, non-electoral reason.
Why the peso figure matters if you're checking another source
If you come across an older description of this article stating a different, lower fine, it is very likely quoting the Revised Penal Code as originally written in 1930, before Republic Act No. 10951 rewrote the fines and thresholds across the Code in 2017. The ₱100,000 figure quoted here is the current amount. Grave coercion committed for an ordinary reason and grave coercion committed to interfere with someone's right to vote both use this same revised fine structure — only the term of imprisonment changes between the two.