Eligible voters are usually split over the way to vote in the next common election when they forged two ballots — one for a constituency MP and the some other for a party to choose an MP within the party-list – in the next general election, according to a survey by National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.
The poll was conducted from Aug 1-5 simply by telephone interviews with 1, 312 eligible voters aged eighteen and over of various levels of education, jobs and incomes through the country to find out how they would vote within the next general election.
Under the amended election law, voters are to case two ballots – one to elect a constituency MP from the political party as well as the other for an MP on the party-list.
Asked how they would vote with the two ballots, forty-four. 82% said these were still undecided, 37. 03% said they would vote for a constituency MP and a party-list MP from the same party; 16. 85% said they would not really vote for a constituency MP and a party-list MP from the same party; and 0. 30% had no answer or were not interested.
Asked whether they desired to have a new constituency MP in the next election, 30. 41% mentioned “no”, absolutely; twenty-eight. 28% said “yes”, very much; 19. 21% said “yes”, moderately; 11. 97% said “no”, moderately; and 10. 13% experienced no answer or even were not interested.
Asked how they would vote within the party-list system, 34. 99% were nevertheless undecided; 32. 39% would vote for a party in the opposition bloc; 21. 34% would vote for the new party which had not had an MP in the House of Representatives; 10. 82% might vote for a celebration in the government bloc; and 0. 46% had no solution or were not interested.