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Election vs. Poll — What's the Difference?

Election vs. Poll — What's the Difference?

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Election

An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.

Poll

The casting and registering of votes in an election.

Election

The act or process of electing someone to fill an office or position
Officers are chosen by election and not by appointment.

Poll

The number of votes cast or recorded.

Election

An instance of this
Did you vote in this election?.
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Poll

The places where votes are cast and registered during an election, considered as a group
The polls close in this state at 8:00.

Election

The fact of being elected
Her election to the Senate.

Poll

A place where votes are cast and registered
I went to the polls before work to cast a vote.

Election

An act of choosing; a selection
Your election of benefits.

Poll

A survey of the public or of a sample of public opinion to acquire information.

Election

Predestined salvation, especially as conceived by Calvinists.

Poll

The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.

Election

A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.
How did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?

Poll

The blunt or broad end of a tool such as a hammer or axe.

Election

The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.

Poll

To receive (a given number of votes).

Election

An option that is selected.
W-4 election

Poll

To receive or record the votes of
Polling a jury.

Election

(archaic) Any conscious choice.

Poll

To cast (a vote or ballot).

Election

(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.

Poll

To question in a survey; canvass.

Election

(obsolete) Those who are elected.

Poll

To cut off or trim (hair, horns, or wool, for example); clip.

Election

The act of choosing; choice; selection.

Poll

To trim or cut off the hair, wool, branches, or horns of
Polled the sheep.
Polled the trees.

Election

The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.

Poll

To vote at the polls in an election.

Election

Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

Poll

A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.

Election

Discriminating choice; discernment.
To use men with much difference and election is good.

Poll

A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.

Election

Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; - one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
There is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Poll

A polling place
The polls close at 8 p.m.

Election

The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

Poll

The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded. can "poll" also have another sense synonymous with "electoral register"?

Election

Those who are elected.
The election hath obtained it.
He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths.

Poll

The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.

Election

A vote to select the winner of a position or political office;
The results of the election will be announced tonight

Poll

(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.

Election

The act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice;
Her election of medicine as a profession

Poll

The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.

Election

The status or fact of being elected;
They celebrated his election

Poll

The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

Election

The predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)

Poll

A pet parrot.

Poll

One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

Poll

(transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).

Poll

(transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).

Poll

(intransitive) To vote at an election.

Poll

To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.

Poll

To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
To poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass

Poll

(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).

Poll

(transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).

Poll

To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
To poll a tree

Poll

To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
The network hub polled the department’s computers to determine which ones could still respond.

Poll

To be judged in a poll.

Poll

(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

Poll

To impose a tax upon.

Poll

To pay as one's personal tax.

Poll

To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.

Poll

(legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
A polled deed

Poll

(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
Poll Hereford
Red Poll cows

Poll

A parrot; - familiarly so called.

Poll

One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

Poll

The head; the back part of the head.

Poll

A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
We are the greater poll, and in true fearThey gave us our demands.
The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll.

Poll

Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.

Poll

The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.

Poll

The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.

Poll

The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.

Poll

The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).

Poll

To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree.
When he [Absalom] pollled his head.
His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.

Poll

To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; - sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass.
Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreedThat all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.

Poll

To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.

Poll

To impose a tax upon.

Poll

To pay as one's personal tax.
The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.

Poll

To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms.

Poll

To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
And poll for points of faith his trusty vote.

Poll

To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee poll.

Poll

To vote at an election.

Poll

An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people

Poll

The top of the head

Poll

The part of the head between the ears

Poll

A tame parrot

Poll

The counting of votes (as in an election)

Poll

Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

Poll

Vote in an election at a polling station

Poll

Get the votes of

Poll

Convert into a pollard;
Pollard trees

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