Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:

Figurative head counts

* Poll, a formal election **

Election verification exit poll An election verification exit poll (EVEP) is a relatively new concept in polling, intended to improve the accuracy of exit polls to such an extent that they can be used to verify election results. Traditional (media) exit polling relies on small s ...

, a survey taken to verify election counts ** Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions ** Polling places or polling station, a.k.a. the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections * Poll, a non-formal election: ** Opinion poll, 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 for n ...

, 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 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 to gain ...

, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote **

Survey (human research) In 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 at street corners or in malls. Surveys are us ...

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. Specifically, the "poll" refers to the occip ...

, the top of an animal's head * Polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally horned species * Polling, livestock dehorning

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

Mathematics, science, and technology

* poll (Unix), a Unix system call *POLL, DNA polymerase lambda * Polling (computer science), actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status * Polling system, a mathematical model where a single server visits a set of queues in some order

People

Given name or middle name

* Silvia Poll Ahrens (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 (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal * George St Poll (died 1550s), an English politician * Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee * Jana Franziska Poll (born 1988), German volleyball player * Jon Poll (born 1958), American film director * Martin Poll (1922–2012), American film and television producer * Max Poll (1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist * Mihkel Poll (born 1986), Estonian pianist * Richard D. Poll (1918–1994), American historian, academic, author * Thomas St Poll (died 1582), member of Parliament * Kim Polling (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, 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 legal document binding only to a single person or party * Poll, the part of a claw hammer 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 (fad), planking * Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow * Push poll, an interactive marketing technique or political [mis-]information campaign designed to appear as an opinion poll