10/27/2009 | 03:56 PM
Senator Benigno Simeon “Noynoy" Aquino III of the Liberal Party has topped a recent nationwide survey conducted by militant think tank IBON Foundation on 2010 presidential aspirants.Aquino, son of the late President Corazon “Cory" Aquino and slain senator Benigno “Ninoy" Aquino Jr. ranked first in both the open-ended and multiple choice surveys conducted from October 2 to 8.
Aquino, included in the survey list for the first time since announcing his presidential bid last September 9, got the approval of 22.6 percent of the 1,496 respondents who answered the open-ended survey, and 32.2 percent of those who answered the multiple choice survey.
The IBON survey asked its respondents to answer the question: “If the presidential elections were held today, who would you vote for?"
Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. of the Nacionalista Party placed second in both surveys, getting the nod of 16.31 percent of those who answered the open-ended survey and 19.32 percent of those who were presented with names of possible presidential aspirants in 2010.
Another incumbent senator, Francis Escudero, who is yet to announce his plans for 2010, ranked third in both lists while former President Joseph Estrada, who announced his bid for reelection last week amid legal questions, placed fourth.
IBON said Aquino “may have cornered possible votes" for former frontrunners Villar and Escudero after he formally announced his candidacy in early September.
Aquino also got the support of respondents from different parts of the country, being the most preferred presidential candidate of respondents who were administered the multiple choice survey in Luzon (25.5 percent), Visayas (34.6 percent), Mindanao (46.5 percent) and the National Capital Region (24.2 percent).
The IBON survey was conducted using a multi-stage probability sampling scheme and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percent. - GMANews.TV
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/175665/noynoy-tops-ibon-presidential-preference-survey
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