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 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

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

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