Magazine layout feedback

To distinguish which layout my partner and myself would use, we looked at the results of my questionnaire, out of my 3 designs the first two drew with equal number of 12 votes each. Therefore I will design my layout with features of both of these, to reach out to my audience.

 Magazine layout 1

                                                            Magazine layout 2

Magazine layout 3

When I interviewed a few people into why they picked they preferred the first two layouts to the first the response was because of; they liked the main image in the centre of the page, with the first layout I was told they liked to see more of the main image, with a little information of what's inside. Others liked the second layout because the smaller images interest them as it displays different genres inside. The third layout received the fewest number of votes, I asked why this was and people replied with the long list of what's inside.