Sara Duterte remains top VP bet in OCTA’s latest April survey

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte still emerged as the leading choice for the vice presidential race for the 2022 elections in the latest OCTA Research survey despite recording a rate down from the previous one.

Results of the Tugon ng Masa Survey conducted on April 22 to 25 showed that the presidential daughter recorded 56% preference votes in the country, a slight decrease from the 57% from the April 2 to 6 survey.

Duterte scored most in the Mindanao regions with 82%, followed by Visayas with 61%, Balanced Luzon with 49%, and the National Capital Region (NCR) with 48%.

In the presidential survey, her running mate former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. also remained at the top with 58% preference votes, while Vice President Leni Robredo rose with 25% percentage points in second place.

Duterte was followed by Senate President Vicente Sotto III with 22% (from 23% in the previous survey) and Senator Francis Pangilinan with 16% (from 12%).

Trailing behind were Dr. Willie Ong with 4% (from 7%), House Deputy Speaker Lito Atienza with 1% (from 0.7%), Manny Lopez with 0.1% (from 0.1%), Professor Walden Bello with 0.03% (from 0.1%), and Carlos Serapio with 0.001% (from 0%).

Meanwhile, broadcaster Raffy Tulfo kept his lead among fellow senatorial candidates with 63% preference votes, followed by former Public Works and Highways secretary Mark Villar with 55% and Antique Representative Loren Legarda with 51%.

The latest OCTA survey was conducted with a 2,400 sample size with a ±2% margin of error.

The respondents were asked face-to-face with the question: Kung ang eleksyon ay gaganapin ngayon, sino sa kanila ang pinakamalamang na iboboto ninyo bilang Bise-Presidente (If the elections were held today, who would you likely vote for Vice President)?

In terms of socio-economic class, Duterte won in the Class D with 58%, followed by Class E with 53%, and class ABC with 47%.

Meanwhile, Sotto garnered 25% votes in Class E, 22% in Class D, and 20% in Class ABC.

Next to him was Pangilinan with 25% in Class ABC, 15% in Class D, and 13% in Class E.

Some 1.3% of respondents did not give a categorical answer for their vice presidential choice. This includes 0.7% who said they have no one to vote for, 0.5% who said they still did not know who to vote for, and 0.1% who refused to answer.—AOL, GMA News