One day before the Umno presidential elections, a poll has put acting party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as the frontrunner for the party’s top post, and Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah behind him.

Think tank Ilham Centre ran an eight-day survey on preferred presidential candidates and found that Zahid polled 51 percent while Tengku Razaleigh, better known as Ku Li, polled 35 percent...