BBM 55 LENI 21 ISKO 8 – PAHAYAG Mar 9-14 SURVEY

17 Mar

BBM 55 LENI 21 ISKO 8 – PAHAYAG Mar 9-14 SURVEY

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MANILA – Former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. maintains his sizable lead in the 2022 presidential race ahead of Vice President Ma. Leonor “Leni” Robredo and Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso, according to the latest PAHAYAG National Election Tracker Survey conducted by PUBLiCUS Asia Inc.

55.1% of the 1,500 respondents to the March 9-14, 2022 survey said they would vote for Marcos to become the next president of the Philippines. 21% of respondents identified Robredo as their choice for president. 8% said they would vote for Domagoso.

“The biggest point of interest in our latest survey is that the rankings for the presidential race remained virtually unchanged since last year. While it is true that former senator Marcos increased his preference share from around 52% to a little over 55% in our latest survey, these numbers remain generally in line with his longer-term averages. The same can be said for Robredo and Domagoso,” said Dr. David Barua Yap Jr., PUBLiCUS Chief Data Scientist and head of polling operations, on the March 17 episode of the PAHAYAG Election Report.

Marcos, Robredo, and Domagoso have consistently polled as the top three choices for president among respondents to recent PAHAYAG surveys.

Marcos earned 51.9% of the presidential vote on the December 6-10, 2021 PAHAYAG Q4 Survey, followed by Robredo at 20.2% and Domagoso at 7.9%. Marcos also came out on top in the February 11-16, 2022 National Election Tracker Survey with 52.3% of the vote, followed by Robredo at 22.3% and Domagoso at 8.9%.

Yap also criticized well-publicized attempts to promote data on Google Trends and social media engagement as accurate indicators of voter sentiment.

“I would go so far as to say that using Google Trends searches and social media engagements as barometers of voter preference is lazy thinking,” Yap said.

Yap explained that engagement data does not provide the kind of one-is-to-one comparison between a registered voter and his or her electoral preferences that electoral surveys provide.

“You’re also introducing a lot of noise into the equation, thereby making it very difficult to get the sense of actual preference for a candidate or support for a campaign,” Yap said.

“I think it’s instructive to point out that Google Trends in itself points out that the statistics they post, or the statistics they give out to the public, are not to be confused with polling data. If you look at their FAQ, they explicitly state that this is not to be treated as any indication of how a particular campaign or election is going,” Yap added.

PAHAYAG National Election Tracker Survey: March is an independent non-commissioned national survey conducted by PUBLiCUS Asia Inc. from March 9-14, 2022. The 1,500 registered Filipino voters comprising the purposive survey panel were randomly selected from the panel marketplace of 200,000 Filipinos maintained by American firm PureSpectrum.

Parameters based on respondent age, gender, and location were also utilized in the sample formulation in order for the resulting sample to conform more closely to the features of the voting population, as defined by statistics from the Commission on Elections. The sample margin of error is 3%.

PureSpectrum is a US based panel marketplace with a multinational presence. Samples provided by PureSpectrum are not affiliated with any bias or political party. All opinions voiced in the interpretation and analyses of the data are those of the writer and/or project sponsor.