Davao City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte led a Philippines Senate survey for the 2028 election with 42.7% support, up from 33.7% in September. Actor Dingdong Dantes entered the top 12 after ranking outside the top 24 in the previous poll.

Key Takeaways

  • Duterte gained nine percentage points between the September and October surveys.
  • Former senator Grace Poe ranked second, followed by Sen. Raffy Tulfo.
  • Dantes placed 12th, ahead of former senator Loren Legarda by 1.2 percentage points.

Philippines Senate survey rankings

In the Tangere survey conducted October 21–23, 2026, Poe received 38.3%, an increase of 1.6 percentage points. Raffy Tulfo fell to 36.5% from 39.9% in September.

Sen. Robin Padilla ranked fourth at 36.4%. Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano rose to fifth with 34.6%, an eight-percentage-point increase from September.

Broadcaster Ben Tulfo placed sixth with 32.7%, followed by Paolo Duterte at 30.6% and Manny Pacquiao at 29.2%. Sens. Francis “Chiz” Escudero and Sonny Angara completed the top 10 with 24.9% and 22.5%, respectively.

Dantes enters the top 12

Akbayan Rep. Chel Diokno ranked 11th with 22.1%, slightly below his previous 22.9%. Dantes followed at 20.7%, while Legarda dropped to 13th with 19.5%.

The 1.2-percentage-point gap between Dantes and Legarda was within the survey’s reported margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.

How the poll was conducted

Tangere said the non-commissioned survey used a mobile application and included 2,400 respondents. It reported a 95% confidence level and used quota-based stratified random sampling.

Respondents were distributed across Metro Manila, Northern Luzon, Southern Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.

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