Escudero tops Bilang Pilipino-SWS poll; Marcos least liked VP bet to win

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Francis "Chiz" Escudero topped the latest Bilang Pilipino-SWS Mobile Survey released on Tuesday while Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. turned out as the least liked vice presidential bet to win.

Escudero scored 31 percent in the survey conducted on March 31 among 1,200 validated voters, 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos placed second with 26 percent followed by Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo with 25 percent.

Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano scored 13 percent while Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Sen. Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan II obtained 3 percent and 1 percent, respectively.

Escudero led the vice presidential poll in Balance Luzon with a score of 38 percent while Marcos topped Metro Manila with 32 percent. Robredo was the most preferred vice presidential bet in Visayas and Mindanao with 38 percent and 24 percent, respectively.

Meanwhile, Marcos turned out as the least liked vice presidential candidate as 22 percent of the respondents said that they do not want him to win.

The respondents were asked, "Whom among the candidates for vice president of the Philippines you most not like to win?"

The survey respondents were also asked if they will change their mind regarding whom they will vote for vice president in the upcoming elections.

Most of the respondents (59 percent) said that they will not change their minds while 22 percent said that they have already decided. 14 percent said that they can still change their minds while 5 percent are undecided.

The Bilang Pilipino SWS Mobile Survey is a project which seeks to rapidly survey opinions from a random national sample of voters.

"The sample was drawn using standard SWS sampling procedures, and was first interviewed face-to-face on March 8-11, 2016 to become the panel for the mobile survey," the SWS report said.

"These voters were invited, and had then agreed, to be members of a panel of respondents to receive and reply to a few survey questions each day using mobile phones provided to them for free by Starmobile," the report added.

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