This Province Has 2M Voters Senatorial Bets Should Watch

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

To the few dozens serious senatorial candidates who want to win the 12 senate seats, listen!

If you want to strategize and catapult yourself to be in the elusive Magic 12 of the series of polls lead by the Social Weather Station and Pulse Asia you should know the political landscapes of the mammoth 44 towns and 4 cities’ Pangasinan’s province.

 With more than a hundred media practitioners in the areas, your PR men should connect only to the few influential commentators, columnists, reporters, and top bloggers who could effectively deliver the goods to your electoral stocks in the May 13, 2019 middle term election.

Just like in the past elections, you can contact totomortz@yahoo.com to link effectively with the almost two million voters of the province considered as part of the top three vote- rich provinces in the Philippines.

In the 2016 data from  the Commission on Election (Comelec), the province of Cebu had the most number of voters with 2,722,288 (3 million voters in 2018 as projected) registered followed by Cavite, Pangasinan, Laguna, Negros Occidental, Bulacan, Batangas, Rizal, Iloilo and, Nueva Ecija.

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In the voters’ data this writer availed at the provincial office of the Comelec based in Dagupan City and under the supervision of Provincial Election Supervisor IV Lawyer Mariano V. Salas, the six congressional districts’ province as of November 15, 2018 has 1, 946, 644 voters.

 The 15 highest vote rich Local Government Units in Pangasinan and their corresponding number of voters are:

1.    Dagupan City :      119, 164

2.    San Carlos City:    111, 170

3.    Urdaneta City:         87, 916

4.    Malasiqui:                81, 342

5.    Bayambang:            75, 911

6.    Lingayen:                 66, 286

7.    Mangaldan:              65, 115

8.    Calasiao:                  61, 653

9.    Binmaley:                 60, 870

10. Alaminos City:          56, 863

11. San Fabian:              52, 334

12. Santa Barbara:         51, 863

13. Umingan:                  51, 310

14. Mangatarem:            51, 150

15. Pozorrubio:               47, 659

According to an officer of the Comelec, who asked for anonymity, the 1.947 million voters could be reduced because of the deletion on the multiple registrations, validation, change of residence, and others by the Electoral Regulation Board (ERB).

“Mga hundreds lang, sir. They could not make a dent on the present figures of registered voters,” he told this columnist.

In the September 15 – 23, 2018 survey of the Pulse Asia, the following top 12 senatorial candidates are: 1. Grace Poe; 2. Cynthia Villar; 3. Pia Cayetano; 4. Nancy Binay; 5. Lito Lapid; 6. Koko Pimentel; 7. Jinggoy Estrada; 8. Sonny Angara; 9. Sarah Duterte; 10.lmee Marcos; 11. Mar Roxas; 12. Bam Aquino.

Below is the table of the SWS’ polls where 28 of the wannabees entered.

Those candidates from Numbers 6 to 12 should not be complacent on the ingratiation game with the voters. 

Can you still remember jailed senator Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa de Lima when she was at No. 8 in the February 16-27, 2016 polls of the Pulse Asia? Thanks to her fracas with the acrimonious Iglesia ni Cristo's church members, those voters who hated the INC loved her when she prioritize to order the filing of the criminal cases against the brass of the controversial church.
  But because of campaign blunders, she nearly lost the May 16, 2016 election when she fell to No. 12 of the Magic 12.

She got 13, 898, 283 votes while Super Heavyweight (Elephant Division) Senator Franklin Drilon was No. 1 with 18, 153, 384.

Drilon’s brutally knocked out victim (Debate Category with English as official medium) the loquacious real Grade 6 graduate boxer and senator Manny Pacquiao was No. 7 with 15, 592, 390.
 (Read one of my much read blogs to spike your political maturity: DRILON KNOCKED OUT PACQUIAO IN WORST DEBATE) 

Senator Leila should be thankful, issues like narcotics and paramours like her driver Ronnie Dayan of Pangasinan were not hurled against her in the 2016 sexual, er, electoral derby.

She should be thankful, there was no congressional hearings where a Party List Congressman named Harriettee, este, Harry Roque incessantly and passionately asked Dayan, with fellow solons drool at the circus, what intensity if based on the earthquake her and Dayan’s copulation ensued on bed. 
Or was it inside the car? My memory now is hazy.

Those candidates in Numbers 13 to 20 should double or triple their efforts otherwise those millions of pesos and the physically draining efforts they invested doing whistle stops and stumps in the archipelago will just go to naught.

Warning to candidates!

Don’t emulate a tightwad senatorial bet where many media men in Pangasinan stop doing PR works with him. Why? He gave only P2,000 monthly for them. Aside from leaving him, many of these commentators have been lambasting him instead on their radio programs. The last time I saw him, he was out of the Magic 12.

Read my other article here about another worse than a penny – pincher reelectionist senator who did not win.

KURIPOT SENATORIAL BET LOST BID

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(You can read my selected columns at mortzortigoza.blogspot.com and articles at Pangasinan News Aro. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com)