Modi favourite to win 'Time Person of the Year' poll

December 07, 2014 13:21

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears favourite to win the 'Time Person of the Year' poll, leading the online voting with a comfortable margin ahead of Ferguson protesters as voting closed for the annual honour.

Modi was the front runner with 16.2 per cent votes, followed by Ferguson protesters who got 9.2 per cent votes at the time the polls closed midnight last night.

While Time magazine's editors will choose the 'Person of the Year', the winner of the readers' poll will be announced on December 8.

The annual honour, bestowed by the magazine since 1927, goes to the person who "most influenced the news" during the year "for better or worse."

In a separate "Face-off" poll, Modi has been pitted against Indonesia's new president Joko Widodo.

In this poll also, Modi has maintained a significant lead and garnered 69 per cent votes as against Widodo's 31 per cent.

At the third position was 18-year-old student activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.

He had got seven per cent of the votes cast, followed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai with 4.9 per cent votes.

US President Barack Obama could not make it to the top 10 slots and was trailing with 2.2 per cent votes at the 11th position.

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