THE Duterte siblings, Paolo and Sebastian, topped Ateneo de Davao University’s (Addu) city-wide Blue Vote Survey.
During the presentation of the survey results on Friday, April 29, Davao City Vice Mayor and first-time mayoral candidate Sebastian “Baste” Duterte emerged as the most preferred mayoral candidate, garnering 86 percent of votes out of 1,464 respondents.
First Congressional District Representative of Davao City and re-electionist Paolo Duterte also garnered similar results with 82.93 percent out of 498 total respondents. He is the most preferred candidate out of three others running for the same position.
Meanwhile, the Duterte brothers’ prominent opponents, particularly mayoral candidate lawyer Ruy Elias Lopez and aspiring representative of the First District Maria Victoria “Mags” Maglana fell behind in the survey results.
Lopez, son of former mayor Elias Lopez, had an overall survey result of 3.8 percent, while the remaining two mayoral candidates -- Joseph Elizalde and Teddy Mantilla -- both had 0.1 percent of the votes.
On the other hand, Maglana earned 2.21 percent, followed by candidates Jamal Kanan and Jovanie Mantawel, who both earned less than one percent.
The city-wide Blue Vote Survey results also showed some respondents who were undecided on who to vote.
Out of 1,464 respondents, 9.4 percent were undecided, while 0.3 percent chose to abstain on who to vote between four mayoral candidates.
Meanwhile, out of 498 respondents from the First District, 12.65 are undecided on who to vote for representative, 1.61 percent answered “I honestly do not know,” and 0.20 percent answered they will not vote for any of the candidates.
The Blue Vote Survey also asked for the preferred representatives in the Second District and Third District of Davao City.
In the Second District, Vincent Garcia and Danny Dayanghirang were the top two candidates with 55.5 percent and 30.4 percent, respectively, out of 454 respondents.
For the Third District, Isidro Ungab led the results with 83.6 percent out of 512 respondents. He was followed by Abundio Indonilla with 0.6 percent while 13.5 percent are undecided.
At the same time, the running-mate of Baste Duterte vice mayoral candidate lawyer Melchor Quitain Jr. earned 76.1 percent of votes out of 1,464. Although running unopposed, 18.6 percent of respondents answered undecided and 3.4 percent said they would not vote for Quitain.