The world’s 30 best-looking politicians in Japanese eyes

Recently goo Ranking, a Japan public opinion survey organisation, posted the results of a look at the political world from a rather interesting angle. The respondents were asked to choose their most good-looking world politician or leader in a poll conducted between the 25th and 27th of September 2007. Note that this poll drew its sample from the goo Research monitor pool, so there would be little or no opportunity for ballot stuffing. 100 points are awarded to the top vote-getter, and the other scores are the percentage of votes of the winner that each of the rest received. By sex, the votes were very similar, although Tony Blair won more female hearts than Shintaro Ishihara.

I find it surprising that Bill Clinton (or even Al Gore) doesn’t appear anywhere, however, and personally I’d have voted for Nelson Mandela, another curious omission.

Ranking results

Q: Which world politician or leader do you think is good-looking?

Rank	Politician	Score
1	Junichiro Koizumi	100
2	Shintaro Ishihara	74.1
3	Tony Blair	69.1
4	Hillary Clinton	52.3
5	Vladimir Putin	50.0
6	Arnold Schwarzenegger	42.3
7	Taro Aso	40.0
8	Yuriko Koike	32.7
9	Jacques Chirac	23.6
10	George W Bush	22.7
11	Mikhail Gorbachev	22.7
12	Fidel Castro	22.3
13	Condoleezza Rice	21.8
14	Nicolas Sarkozy	20.9
15	Barack Obama	19.5
16	Shinzo Abe	14.5
17	Donald Rumsfeld	10.9
18	Yasuo Fukuda	10.0
19	Gordon Brown	8.6
20	Angela Merkel	8.6
21	Gerhard Schroeder	8.2
22	Ichiro Ozawa	6.8
23	Alberto Fujimori	5.5
24	Wangari Maathai	5.5
25	Stephen Harper	5.0
26	Hu Jintao	5.0
27	Pope Benedict XVI	5.0
28	Muammar al-Gaddafi	4.1
29	Romano Prodi	2.7
30	Ali Khamenei	2.7