Vice President Jejomar Binay greets supporters during his campaign sortie in Borongan City, Eastern Samar on Thursday. Binay was also scheduled to lead the motorcade of United Nationalist Alliance candidates from Catbalogan to Calbayog City in the province of Samar.(MNS photo)
MANILA, Apr 4 (Mabuhay) – Presidential candidates Mar Roxas and Jejomar Binay were the two bets least liked by voters to win in the May polls, a recent Bilang Pilipino Social Weather Stations (SWS) mobile survey revealed.
The poll showed 27 percent choosing former Interior Secretary Roxas as the candidate they do not like to win the most in the upcoming presidential race, followed by Binay at 24 percent.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte came third with 17 percent.
The two women candidates are at the bottom of the list, with 10 percent of the respondents saying they do not want Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago to win the elections and 5 percent saying the same with Senator Grace Poe.
Seventeen percent of the respondents said they do not know who among the candidates they least want to win.
The poll, conducted March 30, used a random sample of 1,200 validated voters nationwide (300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao). The sample was arrived at using standard statistical procedures. The respondents underwent face-to-face interviews on March 8-11 and were invited to participate in a mobile survey. Of the 1,200 contacted, only 733 or 61 percent responded.
Mahar Mangahas, SWS head, said in a newspaper article on Saturday that in spite of the decreased response rate, “the demographic characteristics of the responses have been very stable.”
He added that there is no demographic bias in the attrition of sample.
The survey had a ±4 percent error margin for national percentages, ±7 percent in the National Capital Region and Visayas, and ±8 percent in Balance Luzon and Mindanao.
Roxas was mostly not wanted by respondents in Metro Manila (34 percent) and Mindanao (36 percent).
Binay was mentioned in Visayas (30 percent).
In Balance Luzon, the three most unliked were Roxas (25 percent), Binay (24 percent), and Duterte (22 percent).
Meanwhile, the latest survey showed respondents want Poe and Duterte to take the presidential seat, with 34 and 31 percent respectively. (MNS)