Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:

Forms of voting and counting

* Poll, a formal

election An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative d ...

** Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts ** Polling,

voting Voting is the process of choosing officials or policies by casting a ballot, a document used by people to formally express their preferences. Republics and representative democracies are governments where the population chooses representative ...

to make decisions or determine opinions **

Polling place A polling place is where voters cast their ballots in elections. The phrase polling station is also used in American English, British English and Canadian English although a polling place is the building and polling station is the specific ...

s or polling station, a.k.a. the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections * Poll, a non-formal

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Opinion poll An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll, is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of qu ...

, a survey of public opinion **

Exit poll An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. A similar poll conducted before actual voters have voted is called an entrance poll. Pollsters – usually private companies working fo ...

, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations **

Straw poll A straw poll, straw vote, or straw ballot is an ad hoc or unofficial voting, vote. It is used to show the popular opinion on a certain matter, and can be used to help politicians know the majority opinion and help them decide what to say in order ...

, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote **

Survey (human research) In Human subject research, research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people. Surveys may be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also in person in public s ...

Agriculture

Poll (livestock) The poll is a name of the part of an animal's head, alternatively referencing a point immediately behind or right between the ears. This area of the anatomy is of particular significance for the horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') i ...

, the top of an animal's head *

Polled livestock Polled livestock are livestock without horns in species which are normally horned. The term refers to both breeds and strains that are naturally polled through selective breeding and also to naturally horned animals that have been disbudded. Na ...

, hornless livestock of normally horned species * Polling,

livestock dehorning Dehorning is the process of removing the horns of livestock. Cattle, sheep, and goats are sometimes dehorned for economic and safety reasons. Disbudding is a different process with similar results; it cauterizes and thus destroys horn buds befor ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Poll (band) Poll was a Greek pop band founded in 1971 by Kostas Tournas, Robert Williams (singer), Robert Williams, Stavros Logaridis and Kostas Papaioannou. It is considered a historic Greek group of the 1970s with pioneering lyrics, that resonated with the ...

, a Greek pop group of the 1970s * ''Poll'', the German title for the 2010 film '' The Poll Diaries''

Mathematics, science, and technology

poll (Unix) is a POSIX system call to wait for one or more file descriptors to become ready for use. On *BSD and macOS, it has been largely superseded by kqueue in high performance applications. On Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-li ...

, a Unix system call *

POLL Poll, polled, or polling may refer to: Forms of voting and counting * Poll, a formal election ** Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts ** Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions ** Polling pla ...

, DNA polymerase lambda *

Polling (computer science) Polling, or interrogation, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output (), and is also referred to as polled or software-drive ...

, actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status *

Polling system In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, a polling system or polling model is a system where a single server visits a set of queues in some order. The model has applications in computer networks and telecommun ...

, a mathematical model where a single server visits a set of queues in some order

People

Given name or middle name

Silvia Poll Ahrens Sylvia Úrsula Poll Ahrens (born September 24, 1970 in Managua, Nicaragua) is an Olympic medalist and a national record holding swimmer from Costa Rica. At the 1988 Olympics, she won Costa Rica's first Olympic medal, when she garnered the sil ...

(born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal * Poll Ashokanand (born 1940), Indian former cricketer * Poll Shyamsunder (1924–1988), Indian cricketer

Surname

* Brian Poll (1941–1999), English cricketer *

Claudia Poll Claudia María Poll Ahrens (born 21 December 1972) is a Costa Rican-Nicaraguan former swimmer who competed in the 200 m to 800 m freestyle events. She is Costa Rica's only Olympic gold-medalist, having won the country's first Olymp ...

(born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal *

George St Poll George St Poll (by 1499 – 1558/1559), of Louth Park, Lincoln, North Carlton, and Snarford, Lincolnshire, and Lincoln's Inn, London was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England The Parliament of Englan ...

(died 1550s), an English politician *

Graham Poll Graham Poll (born 29 July 1963) is an English former football referee in the Premier League. With 26 years of experience, he was one of the most prominent referees in English football, often taking charge of the highest-profile games. His final ...

(born 1963), British referee *

Heinrich Wilhelm Poll Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (5 August 1877 – 12 June 1939) was a German physician, geneticist and physical anthropologist. He studied hybridization, fertility, studies of twins, and the applications of genetics to society. He was an advisor for the co ...

(1877–1939), German anatomist and geneticist *

Jana Franziska Poll Jana Franziska Poll (born 7 May 1988 in Meppen, West Germany) is a German volleyball player, member of the Germany women's national volleyball team. At club level, she plays for German SCU Emlichheim. National team career Poll made her first ...

(born 1988), German volleyball player *

Jon Poll Jon Poll (born 1958) is an American film director, editor and producer, best known for his directorial debut with the 2007 film '' Charlie Bartlett''. Career Poll is the one of three sons of the late film producer, Martin Poll. He graduated f ...

(born 1958), American film director *

Martin Poll Martin Poll (November 24, 1922 – April 14, 2012) was an American film and television producer. Poll produced eleven feature films during his career, including '' The Lion in Winter'', for which he received a 1968 Academy Award nomination for ...

(1922–2012), American film and television producer *

Max Poll Max Fernand Leon Poll (21 July 1908 in Ruisbroek – 13 March 1991 in Uccle) was a Belgian ichthyologist who specialised in the Cichlidae. In the years 1946 and 1947 he organised an expedition to Lake Tanganyika. He has described several spe ...

(1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist *

Mihkel Poll Mihkel Poll (born 14 August 1986 in Tallinn) is an Estonian pianist trained at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (''Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia'') began as a mixed choir of the Estonia So ...

(born 1986), Estonian pianist * Richard D. Poll (1918–1994), American historian, academic, author * Thomas St Poll (died 1582), member of Parliament *

Kim Polling Kim Polling (born 8 February 1991) is a retired judoka that competed in the women's 70 kg division. Since April 2024, Polling represented Italy, having previously represented the Netherlands. Quadruple European Champion Kim Polling was Wo ...

(born 1991), Dutch judoka

Places

Austria

* Polling im Innkreis, a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria * Polling in Tirol, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol

Germany

* Poll, Cologne, a quarter of Cologne, Germany *

Polling, Mühldorf Polling () is a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria in Germany. It lies on the river Inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located ...

, a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria * Polling, Weilheim-Schongau, a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria

Other uses

Deed poll A deed poll (plural: deeds poll) is a legal document binding on a single person or several persons acting jointly to express an intention or create an obligation. It is a deed, and not a contract, because it binds only one party. Etymology Th ...

, a legal document binding only to a single person or party * Poll, the part of a

claw hammer A claw hammer is a hammer primarily used in carpentry for driving nail (fastener), nails into or pulling them from wood. Historically, a claw hammer has been associated with woodworking, but is also used in general applications. It is not sui ...

head containing its driving face * Poll tax (disambiguation), several related forms of taxation * Polling (usually spelled "poleing"), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces; a variant of planking * Polling or

pollarding Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches. In ancient Rome, Propertius mentioned pollarding during the 1st century BCE. The practice h ...

, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow *

Push poll A push poll is an interactive marketing technique, most commonly employed during political campaigning, in which a person or organization attempts to manipulate or alter prospective voters' views under the guise of conducting an opinion poll. In ...

, an interactive marketing technique or political is-nformation campaign designed to appear as an opinion poll *

Poll Poll, polled, or polling may refer to: Forms of voting and counting * Poll, a formal election ** Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts ** Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions ** Polling pla ...

, the pet parrot of

Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before Presidency of Andrew Jackson, his presidency, he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses ...