Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been declared the winner of a reader’s poll for the world’s most powerful person 2019, conducted by a leading British magazine.

The poll was conducted by the British Herald magazine. The magazine said that PM Modi defeated several world leaders and politicians to be declared as the winner. He won with 30.9% of the vote.

He was placed well ahead of his closest contenders, which included Russia’s Vladimir Putin, United States’ Donald Trump, and China’s Xi Jinping with 29.9%, 21.9%, and 18.1% votes respectively.

More than 25 world leaders were nominated in the reader’s poll and four candidates were finally selected for the final round by an expert panel. The evaluation of the selection process was based on extensive study and research on all those nominated for the poll. British Herald readers had to vote through a mandatory one-time password (OTP) process to validate their vote.