Evelio B. Javier

• Evelio Javier ran for office. He won his people's hearts and became their favorite. After the counting of ballots, his competition, Arturo Pacificador was declared winner. Evelio Javier rebuked the decision of the commission as massive irregularities took place in the towns of Caluya, Cabate, Tibiao, Barbaza, Laua-an and San Remigio. 

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• While at the steps of the New Capitol building in San Jose de Buenavista, Antique on 11 February 1986, at 10:00 in the morning, about four masked gunmen alighted a Nissan Patrol jeep and fired at Evelio Javier, who was then with his friends. The encounter ended gruesomely, and outnumbered, Evelio Javier received numerous gunshot wounds.

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• He was declared winner by the Philippine Supreme Court 5 years after his assassination, which is now marked Gov. Evelio B. Javier Day and is a special non-working public holiday in the provinces of Antique, Capiz, Aklan, and Iloilo, the four provinces on Panay island.

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• In September 1986, Isagani Cruz wrote about Javier at the end of his decision in Javier vs. COMELEC:

       ​"Let us first say these meager words in tribute to a fallen hero who was struck down in the vigor of his youth because he dared to speak against tyranny. Where many kept a meekly silence for fear of retaliation and still others feigned and fawned in hopes of safety and even reward, he chose to fight. He was not afraid. Money did not tempt him. Threats did not daunt him. Power did not awe him. His was a singular and all-exacting obsession: the return of freedom to his country. And though he fought not in the barricades of war amid the sound and smoke of shot and shell, he was a soldier nonetheless, fighting valiantly for the liberties of his people against the enemies of his race, unfortunately, of his race too, who would impose upon the land a perpetual night of dark enslavement. He did not see the breaking of dawn, sad to say, but in the very real sense Evelio B. Javier made that dawn draw nearer because he was, like Saul and Jonathan, 'swifter than eagles and stronger than lions.'"

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• The Evelio Javier Airport in San Jose de Buenavista, was named in honor of Evelio.