--- description: Cast your vote for the person you think most influenced the news this year for better or worse title: Vote Now: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4de9e4623c69a5d/69887185524fc028dfdf5835/poy-poll-facebook-02.jpg?branch=production ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Person of the Year topic](/tag/person-of-the-year-2/) ## Person of the Year topic Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Vote Now: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? (17 Nov 2015) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:53 PM CUTPublished: Nov 17, 2015 9:02 PM CUT  AP (2); Getty Images (3) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:53 PM CUTPublished: Nov 17, 2015 9:02 PM CUT TIME’s editors will choose the Person of the Year, but that doesn’t mean readers shouldn’t have their say. Cast your vote for the person you think most influenced the news this year for better or worse. You can also vote in our [face-off poll.](http://time.com/4109448/face-off-person-of-the-year-2015/ "undefined") Read more about the voting methodology [here](http://time.com/4112127/about-person-of-the-year-poll-2015/ "undefined"). Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 6, and the combined winner of our reader polls will be announced on Dec. 7\. TIME’s Person of the Year will be announced Dec. 9. _Read next:_ [_Face-Off: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year?_](http://time.com/4109448/face-off-person-of-the-year-2015/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4108617/person-of-the-year-poll-2015/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4108617/person-of-the-year-poll-2015/"},"headline":"Vote Now: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? (17 Nov 2015)","datePublished":"2015-11-17T21:02:27.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T22:53:45.000Z","description":"Cast your vote for the person you think most influenced the news this year for better or worse","url":"https://time.com/4108617/person-of-the-year-poll-2015/","keywords":["Person of the Year topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4de9e4623c69a5d/69887185524fc028dfdf5835/poy-poll-facebook-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4de9e4623c69a5d/69887185524fc028dfdf5835/poy-poll-facebook-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIME's Person of the Year Poll Facebook Image 02","caption":"TIME's Person of the Year Poll Facebook Image 02","creditText":"AP (2); Getty Images (3)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/person-of-the-year-2/","name":"Person of the Year topic"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4108617/person-of-the-year-poll-2015/","name":"Vote Now: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? (17 Nov 2015)"}}]}] ```