Public opinion research firm WR Numero shows the results for the pre-election preferences for the 2025 senatorial race, with ACT-CIS Partylist Rep. Erwin placing first.  Harlene Delgado, ABS-CBN News

MANILA -- Eight out of 12 senatorial bets of the Marcos administration made it to the top 12 of a new pre-election survey of independent public opinion research firm WR Numero. 

The preliminary results of the non-commissioned survey were released Wednesday, February 26, a week after it was conducted from February 10 - 18, 2025. 

Holding the first spot is ACT-CIS Partylist Rep. Erwin Tulfo with 46.5%, followed by Sen. Lito Lapid on the 2nd - 4th spots with 37.1%. 

Other incumbent senators, Bong Revilla and Pia Cayetano, share the 2nd -  4th spots with 36.1% and 35.8% respectively.

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Former Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III and Makati City Mayor Abby Binay clinched the 5th-7th spots with 32.4% and 32.3% respectively. 

Independent candidate Ben Tulfo garnered 32.1% while former senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson got 30.8%, both sharing the 5th-7th spots. 

Senatorial bets of former President Rodrigo Duterte from PDP Laban, senators Christopher "Bong" Go and Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa secured the 8th-10th spots with 30% and 29.5% respectively. 

Another candidate under the banner of Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas, former senator Manny Pacquiao, entered the 8th-10th spots with 26.9%. 

Television host and independent candidate Willie Revillame got the 11th-14th spot with 26.5%.

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Former senators Bam Aquino (25.2%) and Kiko Pangilinan (24.9%) who are both endorsed by former Vice President Leni Robredo both hold the 11th-14th spots. 

Other Alyansa bets who failed to enter the so-called Magic 12 are Rep. Camille Villar at the 15th spot (22.3%) and presidential sister Sen. Imee Marcos (20.4%) at the 16th place. 

Doc Willie Ong, who previously withdrawn from the senatorial race, still made the list at the 17th-18th spots.

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Sharing the spot is another admin candidate, former Interior and Local Government secretary Benhur Abalos (18.8%). 

Other senatorial candidates who made it in the 19th - 24th spots are former lawmaker and DICT secretary Gringo Honasan (15.8%), Bonifacio Bosita (14.7%), Philip Salvador (13.7%), Sen. Francis Tolentino (12.1%), Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (10.1%) and Atty. Jimmy Bondoc (10%). 

The survey was done through face to face interviews with 1,814 Filipino adults nationwide with a plus minus 2 % margin of error and 95% confidence level. 

WR Numero President and CEO Cleve Arguelles noted that there is still room for movement especially in the "final finishers" or the last four candidates who will make the cut. 

"In terms of the track record of how Senate elections work, we know that nagbabago 'yang nasa ilalim... the campaign has just started, so we're looking at the early picture, maybe those who are clear frontrunners maybe it's a matter of getting themselves to victory on May, but 'yung iba competition pa 'yan," he said in a press briefing. (Around 1 hour 11 mins since start of Arguelles speech) 

Arguelles, who is also a political scientist, underscored that importance of convincing "local political elites" in winning the race. 

"That matters a lot for the last finishers na, will the governors across the different provinces of the Philippine carry you in their sample ballots? That might be the last, parang final push that you need to make it to the 12 and not 13," he added.