A private polling company has determined that 39.5 percent of voter preference favors José Francisco Peña Gómez, with Leonel Fernandez placed second, with 34.8 percent. The PRSC candidate, Jacinto Peynado, is given 16.8 percent. The poll revealed that in almost all provinces, Dr Peña is ahead. The polling company, Centro Datos Paulino Sem covered 2,397 homes in 29 cities both in the provinces and the Distrito Nacional. According to the polling company’s president, Hector Cristobal Paulino Sem, it was not paid for by any particular party. It took place during November and the last week of December. Paulino Sem is president of the Dominican-Haitian Chamber of Commerce, and an advisor to the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, and Mundo Gas.