Marcos leads VP race, Escudero falls behind — SWS survey

Senators Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Francis Escudero Photos by Alexis Corpus

Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. secured the top spot in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

The 1st quarter election survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews with 1,500 respondents from March 30 to April 2.

The results of the survey, which were released early Monday on BusinessWorld, showed Marcos clinching the top spot in the race for the second highest post in the country with 26 percent.

The preference ratings of the late dictator’s namesake and son increased by one percent from the previous face-to-face interview conducted by SWS last March 8 to 11.

Escudero suffered the biggest dip in his ratings. From 28 percent last March 8 to 11, it went down to 21 percent in the latest survey.

Liberal Party vice presidential bet Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo (19 percent) was statistically tied in second place with Escudero.

Despite clinching a statistical tie with Escudero, Robredo was hit with a three point decrease in her rating, from 22 percent during the March 8 to 11 survey.

In third place is Senator Alan Peter Cayetano with 13 percent.

Tied for fourth place are Senator Gringo Honasan and Antonio Trillanes IV with 5 percent each.

The vice presidential candidates’ numbers in the separate SWS-Bilang Pilipino mobile survey conducted last March 30 were the following: Marcos with 26 percent, Escudero with 31 percent, Robredo with 25 percent, Cayetano with 13 percent, Honasan with 1 percent and Trillanes with 3 percent.

The latest survey has sampling error margins of +/-3. KS