<p>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.<br /><br /></p>.<p>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.<br />While Time magazine's editors will choose the 'Person of the Year', the winner of the readers' poll will be announced on December 8.<br /><br />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."<br />In a separate "Face-off" poll, Modi has been pitted against Indonesia's new president Joko Widodo.<br /><br />In this poll also, Modi has maintained a significant lead and garnered 69 per cent votes as against Widodo's 31 per cent.<br /><br />At the third position was 18-year-old student activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.<br /><br />He had got seven per cent of the votes cast, followed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai with 4.9 per cent votes.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The Ferguson protesters had temporarily taken the lead from Modi last week as people around the US demonstrated against a grand jury's decision not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August.<br /><br />But Modi, "seen by many in India and around the world as having the potential to reinvigorate the country's economy," soon regained the lead in the online poll.<br />Modi is among 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders for the honour.<br /><br />The other candidates in the fray for the title are Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, US Secretary of State John Kerry and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /><br />Among the business chiefs and artists in the fray are Amazaon CEO Jeff Bezos, Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba founder Jack Ma, GM's first female CEO Mary Barra, Apple CEO Tim Cook and singers Beyonce, Taylor Swift, reality star Kim Kardashian and actress Jennifer Lawrence.</p>
<p>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.<br /><br /></p>.<p>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.<br />While Time magazine's editors will choose the 'Person of the Year', the winner of the readers' poll will be announced on December 8.<br /><br />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."<br />In a separate "Face-off" poll, Modi has been pitted against Indonesia's new president Joko Widodo.<br /><br />In this poll also, Modi has maintained a significant lead and garnered 69 per cent votes as against Widodo's 31 per cent.<br /><br />At the third position was 18-year-old student activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.<br /><br />He had got seven per cent of the votes cast, followed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai with 4.9 per cent votes.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The Ferguson protesters had temporarily taken the lead from Modi last week as people around the US demonstrated against a grand jury's decision not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August.<br /><br />But Modi, "seen by many in India and around the world as having the potential to reinvigorate the country's economy," soon regained the lead in the online poll.<br />Modi is among 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders for the honour.<br /><br />The other candidates in the fray for the title are Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, US Secretary of State John Kerry and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /><br />Among the business chiefs and artists in the fray are Amazaon CEO Jeff Bezos, Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba founder Jack Ma, GM's first female CEO Mary Barra, Apple CEO Tim Cook and singers Beyonce, Taylor Swift, reality star Kim Kardashian and actress Jennifer Lawrence.</p>