The official TIME 100 selected by its editors, the list of 100 most influential people will be announced on April 20.
Duterte received 5% of the total "yes" votes in the poll, which closed Sunday night. Since taking office in June, Duterte has waged an aggressive war on drugs that has killed more than 8,000 people in the Phillippines, according to Reuters. The controversial anti-drug campaign has inspired growing opposition from human rights groups and some political leaders, including Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo.
Duterte was followed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Pope Francis, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, who each received three percent of the total "yes" votes.
Closely following Duterte in the Time 100 poll were Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Pope Francis, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg all of whom received 3 per cent of the total “yes” votes.
TIME listed 114 personalities it considers worthy to be on "TIME 100." After each vote readers are automatically shown the percentage of votes for "yes" or "no."
U.S. Bernie Sanders won the reader poll in 2016 while Russian President Vladimir Putin took the lead in 2015.
Duterte has been drawing international attention for the alleged extrajudicial killings in the drug war.
The official TIME 100 list, which is selected by TIME's editors, will be announced on April 20.