Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:
Figurative head counts
- Poll, a formal election
- Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts
- Exit poll, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
- Opinion poll, a survey of public opinion
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
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)