The vice president closed the second quarter of 2026 with a net satisfaction rating of +31, landing her firmly in the “good” bracket under the Social Weather Stations (SWS) classification. Figures released Thursday, July 16, showed 58 percent of Filipinos satisfied with Vice President Sara Duterte’s performance against 26 percent who were dissatisfied.
The reading edged up two points from the +29 she posted in March, when satisfaction stood at 54 percent and dissatisfaction at 25 percent. SWS attributed the movement to shifting sentiment across regions.
“The two point increase in Vice President Duterte’s net satisfaction rating from March 2026 to June 2026 was due to an increase in Balance Luzon, combined with a smaller increase in Mindanao and a decrease in Metro Manila, while the Visayas held steady,” the pollster said.
Regionally, Mindanao remained her strongest base at +84, up two points from March. Balance Luzon climbed from +5 to +10, the Visayas stayed put at +36, and Metro Manila slipped two points to +3. The rural-urban divide persisted as well, with rural areas steady at +36 while urban communities improved four points to +27, still within moderate territory.
Demographic breakdowns showed uneven shifts. Among women, her standing moved out of moderate and into good, rising from +28 to +33, while men held at +29. She stayed in the good category among respondents aged 18 to 24, 25 to 34, and 35 to 44, reaching +41, +43, and +44 respectively. Older brackets told a different story: those aged 45 to 54 dropped from +25 to +20, and respondents 55 and above shifted from -4 to +4, moving out of negative territory into neutral.
Education levels also drove changes. College graduates swung from -3 to +12, and gains registered among those with little to no formal schooling, elementary graduates, and respondents with some senior high school education. Junior high school graduates were the exception, sliding from +36 to +29.
SWS uses a fixed scale to describe these scores: +70 and above is “excellent,” +50 to +69 “very good,” +30 to +49 “good,” +10 to +29 “moderate,” +9 to -9 “neutral,” and progressively lower bands running from “poor” down to “execrable.”
Other officials drew their own assessments in the same round. Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian earned a moderate +18 in his first public rating since taking over the chamber’s leadership in June, with 45 percent satisfied and 27 percent dissatisfied. His numbers ran highest in the Visayas at +30, trailed by Balance Luzon at +21, Metro Manila at +15, and Mindanao at +5. Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III landed at a neutral +8, four points above his March mark, while Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo posted a moderate +10, a one-point gain from the prior quarter.
The Second Quarter 2026 Social Weather Survey drew on face-to-face interviews with 1,200 adults conducted June 20 to 29, carrying a margin of error of ±3 percentage points nationally and ±6 points for each major area. Days earlier, on July 13, SWS reported President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s figures from the same fieldwork, showing 38 percent satisfied and 45 percent dissatisfied for a neutral -7, a recovery from the record-low -15 he carried into the quarter.
