BARELY a week before the local elections, Angeles City mayoral candidates Alex Cauguiran and Carmelo Lazatin Jr. are statistically tied in a recent survey, said the spokesperson of the Kambilan Party.
"Cauguiran got 35 percent of the vote in the latest poll dated April 20 and 21, Lazatin at 37 percent, while Vice Mayor Bryan Nepomuceno slid down to 24 percent, and undecided voters are at four percent. From a statistician's point of view, the two top candidates are statistically tied," said Irene Mae Manabat, Kambilan Da Reng Abe Party spokesperson.
"Lazatin's votes are in a plateau, so the rise or fall (of his votes) are negligible. Nepomuceno is on an irreversible downward trajectory, while Cauguiran, most probably, will rake in the undecided voters while solidifying his loyal forces in the endgame," Manabat added.
The poll result showed Cauguiran ranked first in 13 barangays.
The survey has a margin of error of 1.8 percent and conducted in 33 barangays with 3,000 random respondents proportional to voters per barangay.
The surveyors ensured a random method in a community with household intervals of at least seven houses where the question asked was: "Kung ikaw ay boboto sa darating na Mayo 13, sino ang pipiliin mong Mayor?"
In a previous poll conducted from December 12 to 14, 2018, Nepomuceno was at the top at 39 percent, Lazatin at 31 percent and Cauguiran at merely eight percent.