Poll

{{wiktionary|Poll|poll|polling|polls}} '''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

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