4Ps still leading party-list survey

WITH two months before election day, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed the Pagtibayin at Palaguin ang Pangkabuhayang Pilipino (4Ps) remained on top of the party-list race, with 10.44 percent support, an increase from 9.61 percent in February.

Following the 4Ps and remaining in second place was Duterte Youth with 8.42 percent voter preference.

SWS said 4Ps and Duterte Youth were on track to gain three House seats since they had more than 6 percent of the votes.

ACT-CIS climbed from fourth place in February to third place in March with 5.29 percent. It switched places with FPJ Panday Bayanihan, which is now in fourth place with a 4.17 percent preference rating.

SWS said this might earn them two House seats each because they were set to garner more than 4 percent of the votes cast.

The March survey also showed Ako Bicol getting 2.51 percent of votes, followed by Asenso Pinoy (2.45 percent), Senior Citizens (2.28 percent), TGP (2.05 percent), and Agimat at 2.0 percent.

SWS said they were on track to gain one House seat each since they had more than 2 percent of the votes cast for party-list.

EduAKSyon, a party-list that promotes educational reform, also appeared to be making gains.

The SWS survey, conducted from March 15 to 20, placed EduAKSyon in the 13th spot, with a 1.64 percent voter preference, among 156 party-list groups gunning for a seat in the House of Representatives in the 2025 elections.

EduAksyon Party-list is led by its first nominee, Michael Alexander Ang, together with other nominees, lawyer Kristjan Vincent Gargantiel and Aldrin Darilag.

For the 2025 midterm polls, the Commission on Elections earlier said at least 63 party-list seats are up for grabs. Based on this, the neophyte party-list group could secure one seat in the House.

The survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews of 1,800 registered voters ages 18 and above nationwide: 300 in Metro Manila, 900 in Balance Luzon, 300 in the Visayas, and 300 in Mindanao.

The sampling error margins are ±2.31 percent for national percentages, ±3.27 percent for Balance Luzon, and ±5.66 percent each for Metro Manila, the Visayas and Mindanao.

Under Republic Act 7491, or the party-list law, a group garnering at least 2 percent of the votes cast in the party-list race gets at least one seat in the House of Representatives. A seat is added if the party-list gets another 2 percent, capped at three seats.