Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE finished first in a Time Magazine reader poll asking who should be on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, the magazine announced Thursday.

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The Vermont senator received 3.3 percent of the poll’s “yes” votes, finishing just ahead of South Korean boy band Big Bang at 2.9 percent, Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi at 2.9 percent and President Obama at 2 percent.

And Sanders’s rival for the Democratic nomination, front-runner Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE, got 1 percent of the vote.

However, winning the reader poll does not guarantee that Sanders will top the list, which is selected by the magazine’s editors.

Sanders also won Time’s online reader poll for its person of the year in 2015, though German Chancellor Angela Merkel ultimately took the title.