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

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, 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, 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 * Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877–1939), German anatomist and geneticist * 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 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 (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 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, an interactive marketing technique or political is-nformation campaign designed to appear as an opinion poll * Poll, 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 ...