Just a month before the May 12 elections, nine candidates from the administration’s senatorial slate Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas are leading the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) voter preference survey conducted from April 11 to 15.
The survey commissioned by Stratbase revealed that nine administration-backed senatorial candidates, which include ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo, Senator Lito Lapid, Senator Pia Cayetano, former Senate President Tito Sotto, Senator Bong Revilla, Makati City Mayor Abby Binay, Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar, former senator Panfilo Lacson, and former senator Manny Pacquiao, are in the potential winning circle.
Senator Bong Go led the candidates with 45 percent of voter preference, followed closely by Rep. Tulfo with 43 percent.
Lapid rose to third place with 34 percent voter support, improving from fifth place in the March survey.
Sotto and Cayetano both garnered 33 percent and tied for fourth to fifth places. Sotto slipped from the fourth–fifth bracket, while Cayetano climbed from the seventh-eighth range.
Senator Bato dela Rosa rose to sixth place with 32 percent, from ninth place in March.
Revilla and media personality Ben Tulfo, who previously held sixth and third–fourth places respectively, now share the seventh–eighth spots with 31 percent each.
Binay climbed to ninth place, from 11th to 13th, with 29 percent.
Villar followed at 10th place with 28 percent, rising from the 11th-13th range.
Meanwhile, Lacson and Pacquiao secured the 11th and 12th spots, with 26 percent and 25 percent, respectively.
Television celebrity Willie Revillame and Senator Imee Marcos, tied for 13th–14th place, garnering 24 percent. However, they still have a statistical chance of reaching the Top 12.
Former senators Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan, both running as independents or under the opposition, are tied at 15th–16th, with 21 percent.
Other administration-backed candidates, former Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos earned 18 percent, placing him in 17th–18th place, while Senator Francis Tolentino ranked 21st with 12 percent.