Young entrepreneur Luigi LRV Villafuerte posted a wide lead in the gubernatorial race in the province of Camarines Sur, a recent pre-election survey by pollster Pulse Asia showed.
The survey showed him getting a third more than the combined votes of his four other rivals that include a former Cabinet secretary and the incumbent vice governor.
Pulse Asia’s survey last January 12-17 showed Villafuerte being preferred by 59 percent of the voters, followed by former budget secretary and ex-House majority leader Rolando Andaya Jr. who was picked by 35 percent of the respondents, and Vice Governor and singer Imelda Papin, who was chosen by four percent.
The two other candidates for governor, Ireneo Bongat Jr., who had an unsuccessful run for a Sanggunian Panlalawigan (SP) seat in the 2019 elections, and businessman Richard Cabal, were chosen by 0.5 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively, of the respondents.
This January survey, which had a sample size of 1,800 respondents from the province’s five congressional districts—excluding the independent component city of Naga—had a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percent at the provincial level and +/- 5.2 percent at the district level.
