4PS, Duterte Youth remain top picks of party-list voters

MANILA, Philippines — Party-list groups Pagtibayin at Palaguin ang Pangkabuhayang Pilipino (4Ps) and Duterte Youth continued to dominate poll surveys with less than a month to go before the May 12 elections, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey commissioned by Stratbase Group and released on Wednesday.

Conducted from April 11 to April 15, the survey asked registered voters which party list group they would most likely vote for if the elections were held during the survey period.

The results showed that 4Ps remained the party list group among 155 others with the highest percentage of support at 8.08 percent. This was a drop, however, from the 10.44 percent recorded in the March survey.

Duterte Youth also maintained its rank as second highest with 7.32 percent, a slight decrease from 8.42 percent in March.

Based on the survey results, only 4Ps and Duterte Youth are poised to claim three guaranteed seats each in the House of Representatives after they obtained at least 6 percent of all the votes cast for party list groups.

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Asenso Pinoy is set to gain two guaranteed seats for obtaining a 4.08 percent preference rating, an improvement from 2.45 percent in March, as its ranking went up to third place from sixth.

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Five other party lists secured a guaranteed seat by garnering at least 2 percent of votes.

Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support (ACT-CIS), which ranked third in the previous survey, now ranked fourth with a 3.55 percent preference rating.

FPJ Panday Bayanihan ranked fifth with 3.51 percent, followed by Tingog with 3.02 percent, an improvement from the previous 1.95 percent when it placed 10th. Senior Citizens ranked seventh with 2.55 percent preference votes, followed by Ako Bicol with 2.34 percent, down from 2.51 percent.

The survey used face-to-face interviews of 1,800 registered voters nationwide and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.31 percent for national percentages; plus or minus 3.27 percent for Luzon outside Metro Manila; and plus or minus 5.66 percent each for Metro Manila, the Visayas and Mindanao. —Inquirer Research

Source: Social Weather Stations (https://www.sws.org.ph/swsmain/artcldisppage/?artcsyscode=ART-20250423110424)