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Hilary Clinton, wife of former United States (US) president Bill Clinton and Ben Carson, the first neurosurgeon to separate Siamese twins at the head, are the most favoured for the 2016 US presidential race, according to a poll conducted by Gallup.

The poll rates Hilary Clinton as the most popular of all the 16 candidates considered, with 89 percent of Americans familiar enough with her.

Of the 89 percent who made an opinion about her, 50 percent was positive with 39 percent came in negative, amounting to 11 percent net favourability.

Others, who the poll revealed as popular, are Joe Biden, the US vice president; Jeb Bush, a brother to former US president George Bush; and Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey who had 78, 68 and 65 percent popularity, respectively.

Though Carson was only popular with 28% of those who participated in the poll, the republican was the most favoured candidate to succeed Barack Obama, the US President in 2016, with a net favourability of 12 percent, one percent higher than Clinton.

The poll was conducted with a “random sample of 1,522 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia (DC)”.

There are nine Republicans and five Democrats in the race for the white house.