Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has retaken the lead in TIME’s Person of the Year poll, surpassing the protesters for Ferguson.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday regained the top position in the 'Time Person of the Year' poll. According to the latest results of the reader's poll, Modi has 12.8 per cent of the total votes accrued till now. He is followed by Ferguson protesters from the U.S. with 10.1 per cent.
Joshua Wong, the face of the Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, is placed third with 7.5 per cent, and Pakistan's teenagers' rights activist Malala Yousafzai is fourth with 5.2 per cent.
Russian President Vladimir Putin with 4.1 per cent has been pushed to sixth place by Ebola doctors and nurses, who are now in fifth place with 4.5 per cent. US President Barack Obama is placed at a distant 11th position with just 2.3 per cent of the total votes.
Since 1927, TIME has named a person who, for better or worse, has most influenced the news and our lives in the past year.
The Person of the Year is selected by TIME’s editors, but readers are asked to weigh in by commenting on any TIME Facebook post that includes #TIMEPOY, tweeting votes using the #TIMEPOY hashtag, or by heading over to TIME.com’s Person of the Year voting hub, where Pinnion’s technology is recording, visualizing and analyzing results as they are received. Votes from Twitter, Facebook and TIME.com’s voting hub are pooled together to create the totals displayed on the site.
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