Poll Explained

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 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, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
  • Straw poll, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote
  • Survey (human research)

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), 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
• 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 (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
• 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
• Poll, the pet parrot of Andrew Jackson

See also

• Paul (disambiguation)
• Pohl (disambiguation)
• Pohle (disambiguation)
• Pol (disambiguation)
• Pole (disambiguation)
• Poling (disambiguation)
  • Poling (metallurgy), removing oxides when refining a metal
• Pollard (disambiguation)
• Polly (disambiguation)