(UPDATE) SEN. Raffy Tulfo and former senator Grace Poe emerged as the leading contenders in Tangere’s latest 2028 senatorial preference survey, conducted after survey front-runners Sen. Robinhood Padilla and Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto announced they would not seek Senate seats in the next elections. Tulfo ranked first with 49.8-percent voter preference, followed by Poe with 43.5 percent. Tangere said Tulfo remains a strong prospect for both a Senate bid and a possible higher executive post, while Poe continues to benefit from high name recall and support as a “returnee” candidate. Following Padilla’s withdrawal, support shifted significantly to members of the Duterte family. Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte posted 36.6-percent voter preference, while his brother, Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte, registered 37.1 percent. Both placed within the 3rd to 7th rank cluster, capturing much of Padilla’s former voter base, according to Tangere. The survey also showed increasing support for newer political figures, particularly among millennial and Generation Z voters. Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gatchalian placed seventh with 34.4 percent, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte ranked within the 8th to 14th bracket with 29.3 percent and San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora landed in the 16th to 27th range with 19.8 percent. Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong (15.1 percent), and Movie and Television Review and Classification Board Chairman Lala Sotto (14.7 percent) also gained ground, reflecting the same youth-driven demographic pattern that previously boosted Vico Sotto in earlier polls. Completing the projected top 12 were incumbent Senators Alan Peter Cayetano and Loren Legarda, both at 38.0 percent and ranked 3rd to 7th; former senator Manny Pacquiao with 31.2 percent; Sen. Francis Escudero with 30.2 percent; media executive Ben Tulfo with 30.1 percent; and Education Secretary Sonny Angara with 28.4 percent. Tangere said the survey sample was distributed nationwide, with 12 percent of respondents from the National Capital Region (NCR), 23 percent from Northern Luzon, 22 percent from Southern Luzon, 20 percent from the Visayas and 23 percent from Mindanao. The survey, released on Feb. 12, has a margin of error of ±2 percent at the national level and higher margins of error for specific sub-national regions: NCR: ±5.7 percent; Visayas: ±4.6 percent; Mindanao: ±4.1 percent; and Rest of Luzon: ±3.0 percent.