Newly-elected Senators Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV and Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan have maintained consistent public trust and voter preference based on results from PAHAYAG’s quarterly survey series held from 2023 to the first quarter of 2025.
Senator Bam Aquino posted steady trust ratings throughout the series: 22% in Q1-2023, 21% in Q2, 22% in Q3, and 23% in Q4.
While he experienced a dip to 18% in Q1-2024, his trust level rebounded to 20% in Q2 and Q3-2024, then climbed to 21% in Q4-2024. He sustained that figure through Q4-2024 and further increased to 28% in Q1-2025.
In terms of voter preference, Aquino began at 18% in Q1-2023 and saw a brief decline to 15% in Q2, fluctuating between 16% and 17% until Q2-2024. A major uptick occurred in Q3-2024 with 23%, followed by 27% in Q4-2024, Q1-2025 (33%), and peaked at 41%.
Aquino started at 12th to 14th place in Sept. 2024, went up to 11th place in Oct. 2024, slid to 12th in December 2024 and jumped to 3rd place in March 2025 and soared to 2nd in the May survey, the pollster said.
The senator-elect got 50 percent of the vote in NCR and 49 percent in South Luzon. His support came from middle and high income households and the 18-24 and 25-29 age groups. They were mainly college-educated and Catholics.
Senator Kiko Pangilinan likewise showed consistent public trust ratings, beginning at 27% in Q1 and Q2-2023, increasing slightly to 28% in Q3, before experiencing modest declines through 2024 (down to 23% in Q1, recovering to 25% in Q2 and 24% in Q3). He closed 2024 at 23%, then returned to 26% in Q1-2025.
Pangilinan was in 11th t0 12th place in June 2023 and slipped out of the top 12 in the first quarter of 2024. He went up to 6th place in Sept. 2024 but dropped to 9th and 10th place in October 2024. He slid to 10th and 11th place in Nov. 2024 but sharply went up to 5th place in March 2025. He eventually placed 3rd in May survey.
Like Aquino, Pangilinan’s voters came mostly from NCR (44%) and South Luzon (45%). They were also from middle and high-income households, and the 18-24 age group. His voters were also mostly Catholic and college graduates.
His voter preference ratings followed a more positive trend: starting at 23% in Q1-2023, rising to 25% in Q2, and maintaining above 22% throughout 2023 and the first half of 2024. By Q3-2024, Pangilinan had climbed to 30%. After a brief dip to 28% post-filing (Q4-2024), he rose to 32% in Q1-2025 and further to 36%.