>>665Lum popularity extend to other school, and she was the only one gettin cheers when she won the preliminaries. We can't underestimate that. In sheer popularity she's probably above the rest. Not that it transcribes in votes, but it's her biggest strenght. Her weakness are the girls, she doesn't have any girl friend in school and they're probably jealous because of Mendou's interest in her. So she can only rely on boys.
Ryuu popularity with girls depend, she got pretty much all the freshmen girls, but she also got her own hatedom "Anti-Ryuunosuke Faction" which forced a part of the Ryuu's fandom to change their vote. She isn't liked much by third years for some reason. But she'd get a fair amount of second-years i feel like, they seemed to be fan too. She also got the "Pessimistic attention-getter" which consist of boys, so she still got a really good amount of support. Even if they don't seem to be that strong of a faction so probably not that any compared to the others.
I don't think Sakura could win against the other two. But she's still really popular with both boys and girls, which is important as it could affect Lum/Ryuu score. Second year girls would also vote for her, same for third year (Who are splitted with Shinobu instead), She's got elegance and feminity, which is what a lots of girl would vote for instead of Ryuu's "We hate men" fandom. Same issue for Lum, Sakura got all the boys drooling, so the votes would be split and would weaken her somewhat.
It all depends on the girl/boy ratio in the school i guess, but either Ryuu or Lum would win, with Sakura not far behind.
