Gordon, an alumnus, topped the three rounds of university-wide automated mock elections

Botong Isko 2010, University of the Philippines’ system-wide electronic mock elections, has finally concluded with Richard Gordon winning all three rounds of voting.  

Teodoro and Aquino finished second and third respectively.

Bayani Fernando topped the vice-presidential candidates with Binay and Roxas as runners-up.

In the senatorial race, Santiago, Cayetano, Tamano, Hontiveros-Baraquel, Drilon, Remulla, Ocampo, Recto, Maza, Enrile, Osmeña and Marcos occupied the top 12 positions.

Kabataan Partylist meanwhile still emerged as the UP students’ top party-list choice.

The UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG) spearheaded the mock polls together with Kasama sa UP, Solidaridad, Student Alliance for the Advancement of Democratic Rights in UP (STAND-UP), League of College Councils, National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) and other partner organizations.

Here are the results for the last and third round:

President

Vice President

Senators (Top 24)

Party-List (Top 20)

For a complete tally of results, visit the official Botong Isko 2010 results website.

Results of the latest Pulse Asia survey on the partylist race

Gabriela and Bayan Muna topped the latest partylist survey by Pulse Asia, but the polling firm notes that the number of Filipinos who remain unaware of the partylist system is still at a high of 60 percent.

Among the ten which garnered at least two-percent in the survey, only Gabriela and Bayan Muna would get the maximum three seats, if elections were held today.

But according to Pulse Asia:

Despite the fact that the election for party-list representatives has been taking place since 1998, almost six in ten registered voters (58%) still have not heard or read anything about the party-list system. Majorities in all geographic areas (51% to 61%) and practically every socio-economic class (58% to 60%) are not aware of the party-list system.

Ironically, the Pulse Asia added that:

It is only in the best-off Class ABC that a majority awareness level is recorded (55%).

Find out how many are aware and unaware of the partylist elections here.

In related news, media watchdog Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility has observed that media coverage on the partylist elections has remained miniscule, with presidential candidates hogging news coverage by the country’s biggest television networks.

Scores of OFWs in UAE took part in the mock polls. Photo courtesy of SBAA-UAE.

Liberal candidates Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas, and reelectionist Nacionalista senator Pia Cayetano topped independent mock polls among overseas Filipino workers in the United Arab Emirates.

A total of 123 OFWs cast their votes in the mock polls organized by the San Beda Alumni Association-UAE chapter.

69 percent of respondents however said that they did not register for the overseas absentee voting slated to start April 10.

Here are the results for president:

• Liberal Party’s Noynoy Aquino 56.6 percent
• Lakas-Kampi’s CMD Gibo Teodoro 16.6 percent
• Nacionalista Manny Villar 16.6 percent
• Bagumbayan’s Dick Gordon 8.33 percent
• PMP’s Joseph Estrada 1.67 percent.

For vice president:

• Liberal Mar Roxas 61.48 percent
• Bagumbayan’s Bayani Fernando 14.75 percent
• PMP’s Jejomar Binay 10.66 percent
• Nacionalista/NPC’s Loren Legarda 4.92 percent
• Lakas-Kampi CMD’s Manzano 4.92 percent
• Bangon Pilipinas’ Perfecto Yasay 3.28 percent

Other candidates for president and vice president did not get any vote.

For senator, the top 12 choices were:

1. Pia Cayetano (NP)
2. Ralph Recto (LP)
3. Miriam Defensor Santiago (PRP)
4. Bongbong Marcos (NP/KBL)
5. Frank Drilon (LP)
6. Serge Osmena (LP)
7. Gilbert Remulla (NP)
8. Sonia Roco (LP)
9. TG” Guingona (LP)
10. Juan Ponce Enrile (PMP)
11. Jinggoy Estrada (PMP)
12. Joey de Venecia (PMP)

Journalist Ares P. Gutierrez, SBAA-UAE president, said in a statement that the survey was meant to feel the political pulse of the Filipino community in this part of the world.

“The respondents were selected at random. We went to malls and places where Filipinos usually congregate and distributed survey forms. We also asked colleagues at work, housemates, neighbors and friends in our respective professional and social networks to ‘vote’,” said Gutierrez.

A January survey by Pulse Asia first reported a statistical tie between Villar and Aquino.

The Center said in a press release that Villar and Aquino each got 27 percent support nationwide when 1,800 respondents were asked last Feb. 1-8 who they would vote for in the presidential elections.

17 percent chose Joseph Estrada, while 14 percent for Gilbert Teodoro, eight percent for Dick Gordon and three percent for Bro. Eddie Villanueva.

Other candidates did not figure among the respondents’ choices.

The Center said that the survey results prove its assumption that this year’s elections “will go down the wire”.

It noted “a very significant drop” in Aquino’s rating “from the time he emerged from a staged spiritual retreat to announce his decision to seek the presidency following the decision of [Mar] Roxas to slide down and run for vice president”.

“At the same time, the same 27% generated by Villar also shows that the respondents have already set aside whatever judgments they may have against Villar in connection with the Senate investigation of the C5 controversy given the fact that the period covered by the survey fell right into the maelstrom of public opinions that were related to the C5 issue,” The Center said.

Vice President

In the race for vice president, LP bet Roxas got 37 percent or nine points more than NP contender Loren Legarda.

15 percent supported Jojo Binay, nine percent for Bayani Fernando, four percent for Edu Manzano, with Perfecto Yasay and Jay Sonza obtaining fractions of one percent.

Senate race

The top 12 candidates for senator were Bong Revilla (49 percent), Mirian Defensor Santiago (47), Pia Cayetano (44), Jinggoy Estrada (43), Frank Drilon (42), Tito Sotto (39), Bongbong Marcos (39), Ralph Recto (36), Juan Ponce Enrile (34), Teofisto Guingona Jr. (33), Serge Osmena (32) and Ruffy Biazon (31).

The Center said 12 other senatorial candidates are winning striking distance: Lito Lapid (28), Sonia Roco (28), Joey de Venecia (24), Mon-mon Mitra (21), Jun Lozada (19), Gwen Pimentel (19), Toots Ople (17), Satur Ocampo (15), Gilbert Remulla (14), Liza Maza (14), Alex Lacson (14) and Adel Tamano (12).

The survey said that Bayan Muna leads eight other partylist groups with the minimum two-percent required by the Constitution to win a seat in the House of Representatives.

Pulse Asia said the Jan. 22-26 partylist poll had 1,800 respondents and a two-percent margin of error.

Sad news

The survey also showed that as many as seven out of every ten Filipino do not know the partylist system, which Pulse Asia said was the lowest result since it started its partylist polling in 2004.

Bayan Muna topped the 2001 and 2004 partylist races, and emerged a strong second place in the 2007 elections even after the Arroyo government ordered the arrest of its leading representative Satur Ocampo.

[The graphic/table shown above was grabbed from the Pulse Asia website.]