FILE PHOTOS Antique Rep. Loren Legarda and broadcast journalist Raffy Tulfo.
MANILA, Philippines — Broadcast journalist Raffy Tulfo and Antique Rep. Loren Legarda shared the top spot in the senatorial race in the recent Pulse Asia survey.
The survey — conducted on April 16 to 21, while results were released Monday — showed that more than half of the probable winners in the May 9 polls are former or incumbent legislators.
“Currently sharing the top spot are Mr. Raffy Tulfo (50.4%) and Antique Representative Loren Legarda (49.4%), both of whom have a statistical ranking of 1st to 2nd places,” Pulse Asia said in a statement.
Actor Robin Padilla is in third to fourth places with a 42.9-percent voter preference while Taguig City-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano’s 42.3-percent voter preference puts him in third to fifth places.
Former senator and incumbent Sorsogon Governor Francis Escudero received 38.6 percent which sets him to a ranking of fourth to eighth.
Reelectionists Sherwin Gatchalian and Juan Miguel Zubiri are settling in the fifth to ninth places, both having 37 percent.
Former Public Works and Highways chief Mark Villar got a voter preference of 35.9 percent, landing him in the fifth to 12th places.
Backed by 34.3 percent of likely voters, former Senator JV Estrada Ejercito ranked sixth to 12th.
Former Vice President Jejomar Binay, reelectionist Risa Hontiveros, and former Senator Jinggoy Estrada all placed eighth to 12th.
Binay got 32.5 percent while Hontiveros and Estrada both received 32.3 percent.
Pulse Asia noted that 41 percent of the voters have a complete slate for the upcoming elections. It added that 2.8 percent did not support any of the 64 senatorial hopefuls.
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